The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) captured this image of a Jordanian phosphate mine on September 17, 2005. This image uses a combination of visible and infrared light to highlight differences between certain features. In this false-color image, vegetation appears red, deep water appears dark blue, shallow water and/or saturated salts appear pale blue, and rock and dirt range in color from off-white to black. In the lower part of the image, just left of center, a network of rectangles indicates part of the mining operation. In the east are clusters of almost perfectly round shapes, some of them colored electric blue. These blue pools may hold shallow water and/or water-soaked salts. In the left part of the image, the spray of red indicates vegetation. Although the vegetation appears bright in this image, it is probably sparse. The large off-white shape near the bottom of the image indicates a dried-up riverbed, and it follows a meandering path from the hills in the east, where the riverbed is darker in color.