The Terra satellite launched into space in December 1999, and NASA expected her to operate for roughly six years. Well, the device outlasted that prediction by more than a decade, which meant that Terra could snap this photo in 2007. The psychedelic image actually shows all of the sediment layers that make up Morocco’s Anti-Atlas Mountains. Different infrared bands were used to delineate the ancient limestone, gypsum and claystone that formed the African range roughly 80 million years ago.