The Italian island of Sardinia

This Envisat image shows the Italian island of Sardinia, situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and south, the Tyrrhenian Sea to the east and the Strait of Bonifacio to the north. Sardinia sits 12 km south of the French island of Corsica (barely visible at image top), 200 km west of the Italian Peninsula and 200 km north of Tunisia. The capital city Cagliari is visible in hues of green inland from the southern semi-circle coastline. Image acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 5 May 2008.