Curious Photo

Bonus prize if someone can tell what this is a picture of! Not sure what the prize is but I will find something appropriate! Hint: It is not really Round Lake related.

I am off to the Arlington Million today, I have $75 burning a hole in my pocket and I looking at Gorella in the Beverly D and I love Cacique in the Million.

The answer to the question on Saturday night!
Satellite image of crops growing in Kansas, USA. Healthy, growing crops are green. Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by late June (when this photo was taken). Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows more slowly and would be much smaller and therefore, possibly paler. Wheat is a brilliant gold as harvest occurs in June. Fields of brown have been recently harvested and plowed under or lie fallow for the year. The circular crop fields are a characteristic of center pivot irrigation. The fields shown here are 800 and 1,600 meters (0.5 and 1 mile) in diameter. The image is centered near 37.4 degrees north latitude, 100.9 degrees west longitude, and covers an area of 37.2 x 38.8 km. The 'grid' in which the fields are laid out runs North-South/West-East and the dark angled line is U.S. Route 56.

The image is aligned with the satellite orbital track, which is in a 98 degree tilted orbit. North is not "up". Rotate the image about 10 degrees clockwise to align the roads north-south. The image is a false-color presentation made to simulate natural color. The 3 bands that were used are in the green, red, and near infrared parts of the spectrum. ASTER does not have a blue channel, so any blue that can be seen was created from the other bands.

Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17006