The Great Pumpkin

Linus wasn’t waiting in vain after all! In the latest public release from Space Imaging, a satellite image was taken on September 8th of a picture of a pumpkin that had been carved into a field. The image is of a 5 acre corn field located in Kentucky. Making up a maze, the design reveals a Jack o’lantern when viewed from above.

Click on image for larger size. IKONOS image from Space Imaging, 2002.

Visitors can climb up onto the viewing platform located in the nose of the pumpkin. As explained by Space Imaging, the images were captured as part of the Kentucky Landscape Snapshot (KLS) Project which will be used to study changes in Kentucky’s landscape. Satellite imagery will be captured of Kentucky’s urban, rural and forest land at intervals to study how the landscape is changing over time.

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