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Fall Colors in Chile

Data from the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 product and Worldview captured the change of seasons.
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May 15, 2026
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Autumn leaf color spread across the southern Andes of Chile in early May 2026. The Multispectral Imager (MSI) aboard the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2C platform acquired this true color reflectance (nadir BRDF-adjusted) image of the region on May 9. The Lonquimay volcano, visible on the right, was covered in snow from a recent storm and contrasted with the red and yellow fall colors to the west.

The comparison above shows March 8 on the left and May 9 on the right. Swipe the center bar left and right to see the late summer greens give way to autumnal reds, yellows, browns, and oranges.

The images come from the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) project, which provides 30-meter resolution, true-color surface reflectance imagery from the OLI and OLI-2 instruments aboard Landsat 8 and 9 and from MSI aboard ESA's Sentinel-2 satellites. Data from the four instruments are processed through a set of algorithms to make the imagery consistent and comparable. This processing includes atmospheric correction, cloud and cloud-shadow masking, spatial co-registration and common gridding, illumination and view angle normalization, and spectral bandpass adjustment.

The Worldview team has created a tutorial to learn how to create your own Harmonized Landsat Sentinel 2 (HLS) image composites. 

Visit Worldview to visualize near real-time imagery and historical imagery from NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS); find more imagery in our Worldview weekly image archive.

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May 15, 2026

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May 15, 2026

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