Bellingcat Challenge #21 "Take You to the Beach" Writeup

This article was automatically translated from Japanese by AI.

Challenge

Bellingcat Challenge #21 “Take You to the Beach”

This image was captured by Landsat 8, a satellite that orbits the Earth every 99 minutes. It captures images in multiple bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Here, you just see the visible light bands, which are the ones that are most similar to what the human eye sees.

But where was Landsat-8 looking when it captured this image?

What is the name of the archipelago in this image?

Solution

A Google reverse image search of the challenge image leads to NASA Earth Observatory’s Mayotte’s Lagoon. The image in the article matches the challenge image and is described as a Landsat 8 image of Mayotte.

Therefore, the islands shown in the image are Mayotte.

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Mayotte