Where on Earth...? MISR Mystery Image Quiz #17 Here's another
chance to play geographical detective! This natural-color image
from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) represents
an area of about 372 kilometers x 425 kilometers, and was
captured by the instrument's vertical-viewing (nadir) camera in
December, 2000. Only some of the following 9 statements about
the region shown are true. This image highlights the Pampas of
Argentina and spans more than 158,000 square kilometers over 3
Argentinean provinces - the southern parts of La Pampa and
Buenos Aires and the northernmost part of Rio Negro. Answers to
the 9 questions are below. 1. Of the two large smoke plumes
rising from fires near image center, one is burning within 10
kilometers of a major gas pipeline. False. The major gas
pipeline (the Nueba II) connecting the gas field in Neuquen to
the port city of Bahia Blanca runs almost parallel and quite
close to the highway (apparent as a thin white line crossing the
Rio Colorado from southwest to n