Apollo 9 Mission image - S0-65 Multispectral Photography - Mexico

AS09-26A-3781A (11 March 1969) --- Colored infrared photograph of the mouth of the Colorado River in northern Baja California and Sonora, Mexico, as seen from Apollo 9 spacecraft during its 121st revolution of Earth. Photographed from an altitude of 130 nautical miles, at 16:14 GMT, on March 11, 1969. Color infrared film is designed to render healthy green foliage as tones of red, such as the red checker-board patterns in the irrigated farm lands along the Colorado River. Red hues of vegetation can be seen in the valleys and on the slopes of the San Pedro Martia and Juarez Mountains, at left. White ribbon-like salt lakes near the river mouth and the wide expanse of sand dunes in the Great Desert, at right, are evidence of the arid climate. Light colors of silt bands in the waters of the Gulf of California reflect currents and water depths. The town of San Felipe is on the Gulf coast at lower left.