To gauge the saturation of that first picture I think the best point of reference would be the sky color. It's getting really saturated and light blue near the horizon, which makes me think it's been very saturated and probably even lightened.
As far as I know the sky color all over the world doesn't change much from the color in this image. (and this is angled up too = bluer)
Here's a more desaturated and hue shifted version that I'd say matches the original colors more closely.
