Sun Glint from Solar Electric Generating Stations

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ May 26, 2004

These images, from 8 April 2003 show that depending upon the position of the Sun, the solar power stations in California's Mohave Desert can reflect solar energy from their large, mirror-like surfaces directly toward one of NASA's Terra cameras.

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