Near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on the east bank of the Athabasca
River, are found the Steepbank and Millennium mines. These open pit mines
produce oil sands that are processed to recover bitumen, and then upgrade
it to refinery-ready raw crude oil, and diesel fuel.
The ASTER images were acquired September 22, 2000 and July 31, 2007, cover
an area of 22.5 x 25.5 km, and are located near 57 degrees north latitude,
111.5 degrees west longitude.
The U.S. science team is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif. The Terra mission is part of NASA's Science Mission
Directorate.
