The Burning Man festival a celebrated hub of US counterculture, has long attracted tens of thousands of attendees each year to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. This sprawling desert event, which hosts over 70,000 people, has now been captured from an extraordinary perspective a satellite image taken from space.
A newly released photo from the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission offers a unique view of the festival, showing the massive gathering of camper vans, vehicles, tents, and art installations that form Black Rock City, the temporary community created for the week-long event.
Though Sentinel’s usual role involves tracking environmental changes, such as melting icebergs and bushfires, the satellite’s rare cultural snapshot provides a mesmerizing overview of Burning Man, highlighting the sheer scale of the event from orbit.
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