Madrid, Spain
Credit: SRTM Team NASA/JPL/NIMA · Download full size image
The white, mottled area in the right-center of this image from NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is Madrid, the capital of Spain. Located on the Meseta Central, a vast plateau covering about 40 percent of the country, this city of 3 million is very near the exact geographic center of the Iberian Peninsula. Posted on: 16 Mar, 2003
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