Rainforest Pictures

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Here are some cool rainforest pictures. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”.

Rainforests of Panama

This image of the Panama Canal Rainforest was taken by Landsat 7 on March 2000. Rainforests are characterized by high annual rainfall of atleast 2,000 mm.

Afternoon Clouds over the Amazon Rainforest

The next of these Amazon pictures was taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument flying aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite on August 19, 2009.

Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda

Here’s an image of Nyungwe National Park. Nyungwe National Park covers 970 square kilometers of rainforest, bamboo, grassland, swamps, and bogs located at the mountains of Rwanda.

East Kalimantan, Indonesia November 1985

Here’s an image of East Kalimantan, Indonesia which was once a rainforest but had shown the effects of deforestation by humans. This image was captured from the International Space Station on November 1985 during the STS-61A mission.

Rondonia, Brazil June 1985

This photo shows the deforested portions of the Amazon River Basin in the state of Rondonia, Brazil. This image was taken on June 1985 during the STS-51G mission to the International Space Station. The Amazon Rainforest covers 70% of Rondonia.

We have written many articles about the rainforest for Universe Today. Here’s an article about the biosphere, and here’s an article about the world’s widest river.

If you’d like more info on the rainforest, check out Visible Earth Homepage. And here’s a link to NASA’s Earth Observatory.

We’ve also recorded an episode of Astronomy Cast all about planet Earth. Listen here, Episode 51: Earth.

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