What is this object?

[Evo]

Today's "What is it?". Can anyone quess? If you ask, I will give hints.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6198/whatisitlc9.jpg

 

[Math Jeans]

It is the inside of a rock.

 

[waht]

Could be a microscope shot of some fabric.

 

[Moonbear]

It looks like it needs stitches!

 

[Kurdt]

Could be an extreme close up of an iris. That is the coloured but round the pupil not the plant.

 

[Evo]

It's a satellite image of a very well known geographical area in the Western US. It's colored using polarimetry.

 

[Gokul43201]

Niagara.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It's a satellite image of a very well known geographical area in the Western US. It's colored using polarimetry.

Darn, I was going to guess that it might be a satellite image, but I couldn't account for the colors. It must be an IR image?

Edit: sorry, got it, polarimetry

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Yosemite?

 

[Kurdt]

grand canyon?

 

[waht]

Looks like Lake Meade and Hoover Dam, and Vegas.

 

[Evo]

Niagara.

Yosemite?

Nope to both.

 

[Evo]

grand canyon?

Looks like Lake Meade and Hoover Dam, and Vegas.

Nope.

Think hot.

I have another picture that shows a larger area and a different colorization, want it?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The Salt Lake Basin?

 

[Evo]

The Salt Lake Basin?

Nope.

All great guesses, though.

 

[rewebster]

Yellowstone

 

[Gokul43201]

St. Helens (my next guess would have been Yellowstone)

 

[Evo]

Yellowstone

Nope.

That picture is REALLY tough, this next one of the same place might be easier.

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6812/whatsameem7.jpg

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Nope.

All great guesses, though.

Geez, I even cheated and used Google Earth. I found a spot that looked pretty close.

 

[Kurdt]

death valley

 

[rewebster]

death valley

my second guess--colorized throws things off


basins drain down and go no place --like Salt Lake

(oh, oh, got to go------NO vs SEA)

 

[Evo]

death valley

We have a winner!

Regular photo.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/9021/whatisit2zs9.jpg

 

[Kurdt]

We have a winner!

Yey! What do I win?

 

[Evo]

Links to explanations of the photos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Death-valley-sar.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DeathValley_L7_JuneJuly2000.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Satellite_Image_of_Death_Valley.jpg

 

[waht]

Yey! What do I win?

A ticket to Death Valley for a week next summer.

 

[Kurdt]

A ticket to Death Valley for a week next summer.

Oh that's ok I do enjoy the warm more than the cold.

 

[Evo]

A ticket to Death Valley for a week next summer.

Yeah, that's the ticket!

 

[Chi Meson]

Yeah, that's the ticket!

Second place, TWO weeks. Diddy-boom tshhhhhh.

*now give old joke his cane back!*

 

[Evo]

Second place, TWO weeks. Diddy-boom tshhhhhh.

*now give old joke his cane back!*

 

[rewebster]

do you have a photo of the mot(h)el(l)?