Kalgoorlie and Super Pit mine, Australia, satellite image. The 'super pit', a large open-pit gold mine, is at centre, next to the town of Kalgoorlie. The surrounding area shows the barren desert and scrub landscape of the Australian outback. This image, covering an area around 30 kilometres across, was obtained on 15 February 2010 by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite.