images

Italy seen from satellite

by

Esa/Novapix

Reference

t-euita-00001

Date

2008-06-12

This mosaic of MERIS (MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) images shows the country of Italy(highlighted in green). The Italian Republic is located in the south of Europe and consists mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea,together with two large islands: Sicily and Sardinia, that divide the Mediterranean Sea into distinct bodies of water, such as the Adriatic Sea to the north-east, the Ionian Sea to the south-east, the Tyrrhenian Sea to the south-west and finally the Ligurian Sea to the north-west. It is bordered by the countries of France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, the country is bounded by the Alps. Satellite Envisat