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Where Europe Meets Africa

Where Europe Meets Africa
This natural-color satellite image shows the meeting place of Earth's second largest and second smallest continents: Africa and Europe. It's a mosaic of numerous images captured throughout 2000-02 by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) on NASA's Terra satellite.

This natural-color satellite image shows the meeting place of Earth’s second largest and second smallest continents: Africa and Europe. It’s a mosaic of numerous images captured throughout 2000-02 by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) on NASA’s Terra satellite. The image stretches from the snow-covered Swiss Alps in the northeast, through France and Spain across the Mediterranean to Morocco and Algeria.Image Credit: NASA