Every day there is one satellite photo of a place on Earth — the same for everyone. Type the country you think it is in. If you are wrong, you see how far away the answer is, which way to go and how close you are in percent, and the photo zooms out to show more of the surroundings. You have six guesses.
Look at the colours first: deep green means rainforest or wet farmland, sandy browns mean desert, bright white can be salt flats, snow or clouds of greenhouses. Field shapes are a strong clue — big circles are pivot irrigation (common in the US, Saudi Arabia and Brazil), long thin strips are typical of Eastern Europe, and tiny patchworks suggest Asia or Africa. Coastlines, river deltas and mountain ranges become clearer as the camera zooms out.
At midnight in your own time zone. Everyone in the world plays the same place each day.
From EOxCloudless 2016, a cloud-free mosaic of the whole planet that EOX built from thousands of Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite passes. That is why there are no clouds — and why some places look a few years old.
From the middle of the country you guessed to the place in the photo, as the crow flies. A neighbouring country can still be a few hundred kilometres away.
Yes — pick any day from the list below.