Landsat 8 satellite captured Kourou, French Guiana.
Kourou is a commune in French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America. Some 60km northwest of the French Guianese capital Cayenne the Kourou River empties into the Atlantic Ocean. At the mouth of this river sits the town of Kourou, which is ringed by 4 hills, with the Singes and Condamine mountains not far behind. The Guiana Space Centre, where the European Space Agency starts missions, is located a little behind and outside the town. Part of the town and the islands are closed during rocket launches. Like most of French Guiana, Kourou has an equatorial climate bordering on a tropical monsoon climate with a short dry season centered between the months of August and October when the Intertropical Convergence Zone is furthest north.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
