The Red Centre No. 1 — satellite art print of Simpson Desert claypan, Northern Territory, Australia, captured 2026-06-26

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The Red Centre No. 1

Simpson Desert claypan, Northern Territory, Australia

-24.95, 133.25 · Captured 2026-06-26

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On 26 June 2026, the Sentinel-2 satellite looked down on the Simpson Desert in Australia's Northern Territory and found the reddest ground on Earth: iron oxide-stained sand, ancient and wind-carved into long parallel dune ridges that run for kilometres like combed hair. In the middle of it all, a single claypan holds water after recent rain, glowing an improbable emerald green against the rust-red desert — a landscape most people will never see, somehow rendered even stranger from directly above.