2004, NASAs Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft Image of South America and portions of North America and Africa from the Mercury Dual Imaging Systems wide-angle camera aboard MESSENGER. The wide-angle camera records light at eleven different wavelengths, including visible and infrared light. Combining blue, red, and green light results in a true-colour image from the observations. The image substitutes infrared light for blue light in the three-band combination. The resulting image is crisper than the natural colour version because our atmosphere scatters blue light. Infrared light, however, passes through the atmosphere with relatively little scattering and allows a clearer view. That wavelength substitution makes plants appear red. Plants reflect near-infrared light more strongly than either red or green, and in this band combination, near-infrared is assigned to look red.