![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920105018im_/http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov//1776/aster_wallofchina_tn.jpg)
Images & Animations
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Credit
Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) sub-image covers a 12 x 12 km (7.5 x 7.5 miles) area in Northern Shanxi Province, China, and was acquired January 9, 2001. The low sun angle, and light snow cover highlight a section of the Great Wall, visible as a black line running diagonally through the image from lower left to upper right. The Great Wall is more than 2000 years old and was built over a period of 1000 years. Stretching 7240 km (4500 miles) from Korea to the Gobi Desert, it was first built to protect China from marauders from the north.
Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/ASTER -
Visualization Date
2001-05-26