[:ja]トマ・ペスケ宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影したサウジアラビア北西部のトゥバルジャルの農地です。
サウジアラビアの国土の大部分は砂漠ですが、農業に適した地域もあります。政府が主導して、大規模な機械化および灌漑設備の導入により、広範な砂漠を農地に転用するプロジェクトが進んでいます。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： Thomas Pesquet’s Tweet
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.1515: Tubarjal Farmland in Saudi Arabia🇸🇦
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured from ISS farmland in Tubarjal, Saudi Arabia.
Although Saudi Arabia is widely thought of as a desert, it has regions where the climate has favoured agriculture. Rain falls in winter every year in Saudi Arabia but with an average of maximum 100mm except in the Southern area of the country. The government, in particular, has aided with this process by converting large areas of desert into agricultural fields. By implementing major irrigation projects and adopting large-scale mechanization, this has progressed in developing agriculture in the country, adding previously barren areas to the stock of cultivatable land.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Thomas Pesquet’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]