Uluru

Uluru is a gigantic sandstone monolith in the Australian Outback. And I do mean gigantic; it's three kilometers (10,000 feet) across its widest point, and juts up an imposing 350 meters into the sky. Well, imposing from the ground. From space it looks decidedly different. The image above is from Proba-1, a European Space Agency satellite designed as a testbed for new tech. Proba-1 is less than meter on a side, and when it launched in 2001 had a lot of cutting-edge tech on it (paving the way for ...