English: Near the centre of this true-colour image, the Kurtlinskoye Reservoir glows like a bright blue-green jewel. Elsewhere, however, the arid landscape appears as a patchwork of earth tones, from deep brown to pale beige. Urbanized areas follow a generally diagonal line from the north-west to the south-east, and cityscape appears especially concentrated south-east of the reservoir. Along the city’s margins, cultivated fields appear as irregular rectangles, alternating between deep green and brown. In the north-east, the meandering patches of deep brown-green show where natural vegetation has concentrated along waterways.