The whole place appears to have sprouted out of the ground in a forest clearing scattered with blazing colour: bruised pink hyacinths, magenta-tinged wild gladioli and orchids with petals the colour of oyster shells.

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PRODES, relies mainly on Landsat, an American satellite which provides colour images of great detail (each pixel represents 30 metres on the ground).

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Tiny particles of rock ground fine by the glaciers that feed it turn the water milky and give it this astonishing, alien colour.

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