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Mariupol Timelapse
47.095833°,37.549444° - Maxar
Mariupol, Ukraine was destroyed between February and May 2022 during the Russian invasion of the country. Some estimates say at least 95% of the city, now under Russian control, has been leveled. Visit our Instagram @dailyoverview to watch a Timelapse video of the city, which focuses on the Mauripol Theater destroyed by Russian bombardments on March 16. Tens of thousands of civilians have been evacuated or killed, leaving Mariupol with less than 100,000 of its 430,000 residents.
Kuala Lumpur Growth
3.147778°,101.695278° - NASA / Google Timelapse
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia has grown sixfold since the 1980s, it’s population exploding from 1.3 million in 1984 to more than 8 million today. As a result, the metropolis continues to sprawl outward from the Klang River and now covers more than 1,000 square miles (2,800 square km). Visit our Instagram @dailyoverview to see a Timelapse of the city’s growth.
Apple Park
37.334185°,-122.009930° - Nearmap
Apple Park in Cupertino, California is the 2.8 million-square-foot headquarters of Apple. Construction of the building took roughly four years to complete, from 2013 to 2017. The “Spaceship” is one of the world’s most environmentally friendly offices, with 100% of its power coming from renewable sources, including the the world’s largest rooftop solar installation. Visit our Instagram @dailyoverview to watch a Timelapse of Apple Park being built.
Las Vegas and Lake Mead
36.175000°,-115.136389° - NASA / Google Timelapse
As the city of Las Vegas grows, Lake Mead, its water supply, shrinks. In the mid-1980s, the Vegas metropolitan area was home to 438,000 people, and today that population has ballooned to upwards of 2.2 million. Consequently, the lake’s water level has dropped from 1,225 feet in July 1983 to 1,059 feet in May 2022 — the lowest since it first began to fill in 1935. Visit our Instagram @dailyoverview to see a video of the city growing and lake shrinking.
Santa Cruz Deforestation
-17.546054°,-62.105244° - NASA / Google Timelapse
Here’s 2000 square kilometers (800 sq. miles) of deforestation in the Santa Cruz region of Bolivia. Deforestation in the country has primarily been driven by the expansion of mechanized agriculture, as Bolivia seeks to produce more food for its growing population. From 2002 to 2021, the country lost a total of 66,000 square kilometers (25,400 square miles) of tree cover — that’s an area 40 times the size of London. Visit our Instagram @dailyoverview to watch a Timelapse of the deforestation.
European Air Traffic
54.526000°,15.255100° - Plane Finder
Flight traffic across Europe has drastically increased from two years ago when COVID-19 lockdowns were in place. The number of people travelling by air across Europe plummeted from 1.1 billion in 2019 to 277 million in 2020. Now, air traffic has begun to rebound — commercial flights in March 2022 were up 156% from March 2021, but are still about down 20% from pre-pandemic levels. Visit our Instagram @dailyoverview to see a comparison of April 2020 and March 2022.
Aral Sea Timelapse
45.510578°,58.757118° - NASA / Google Timelapse
The Aral Sea, located on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was once the fourth largest lake in the world. Visit our Instagram @dailyoverview to watch a Timelapse of its water levels gradually decreasing. In the 1960s, the rivers that fed the Aral were diverted to irrigate newly created cotton fields in the adjacent Kyzylkum Desert. By 1997, water volume had declined to 10% of its original size, and recent satellite images show its entire eastern basin dried up.
Shanghai
31.230400°,121.473700° - NASA
Shanghai, China is an enormous city, but it hasn’t always been that way. In recent decades, the city’s population and urban footprint have exploded. You can watch a Timelapse video of the city growing on Instagram (@dailyoverview). When the Timelapse begins, in 1982, the population was about 11.8 million, and now it is roughly 24.4 million. Earlier this week, residents of the enormous city emerged from their homes after a two-month COVID-19 lockdown. However, negative tests are still required for people to enter many public places throughout Shanghai.
Arlington National Cemetery
38.878325°,-77.068671° - Maxar
In honor of Memorial Day in the United States, we’ve selected an Overview of Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington, D.C. Since the American Civil War, the 624-acre cemetery has become the final resting place for veterans of the nation’s conflicts. The structure seen here is the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater that also contains the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park
-30.626250°,139.055882° - Planet
Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park is a protected area in South Australia, nearly 300 miles (482 km) north of Adelaide. It contains some of the most rugged and spectacular landscape in the state, with high plateaus, gorges and deep chasms. The park is inhabited by the Adnyamathanha aboriginal people.
Victoria Falls
-17.924444°,25.856667° - Airbus Space
Victoria Falls is a waterfall located on the Zambezi River at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. While it is neither the highest nor the widest waterfall in the world, it is classified as the largest with a width of 1,708 meters (5,604 ft) and height of 108 meters (354 ft). Accordingly, the falls contains the world’s largest sheet of falling water with a flow of about 1,080 cubic meters per second.
Brickpit Ring Walk
-33.841667°,151.071389° - Nearmap
The Brickpit Ring Walk is an urban nature park and walkway in Sydney Olympic Park, New South Wales, Australia. The 1,804-foot (550-m) elevated walkway is built above a former brick quarry, now water storage facility and habitat for the endangered Green and Golden Bell Frog. In this Overview, bright green algae swirls on the surface of the storage pond.
Riyadh Low-Angle
24.633333°,46.716667° - Planet
Check out this amazing, low-angle view of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Riyadh is Saudi Arabia’s capital and most populous city, with more than 7.6 million residents. At the center of this Overview is the King Abdullah Financial District, a $10 billion development project that began in 2006 and is still under construction.
Estadio Azteca
19.303056°,-99.150556° - Maxar
Estadio Azteca is a multi-purpose stadium in Mexico City, Mexico. It is the official home of football clubs Club América and Cruz Azul, as well as the Mexico national football team. With an official capacity of 87,523, it is the largest stadium in Mexico and Latin America and has hosted two FIFA World Cup finals.
Lombard Street, San Francisco
37.802306°,-122.419750° - Nearmap
Cars wind down the hill of Lombard Street in San Francisco, California. With eight hairpin turns dispersed over a one-block section in the Russian Hill neighborhood, Lombard is often referred to as “the most crooked street in the world.” It is a major tourist attraction, receiving as many as 17,000 visitors per day on busy summer weekends.
Medina
24.470000°,39.610000° - Planet
Medina is the fourth-most populous city in Saudi Arabia, with nearly 1.5 million inhabitants. First settled in the 9th century BC, it is generally considered to be the "cradle” of Islamic culture and civilization and the second-holiest city in Islamic tradition, after Mecca. This Overview shows the city and a series of ring roads surrounding the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi, a mosque and burial site of the last Islamic prophet, Muhammad.
Lake Urmia
37.700000°,45.366667° - Maxar
Lake Urmia is an endorheic salt lake in northwestern Iran. It was once the sixth-largest saltwater lake on Earth with a surface area of 2,000 square miles (5,200 square km), but by 2017 had shrunk to 10% of its original size due to drought and damming of inflow rivers. The lake’s red-orange color comes from a high concentration of halophiles, or “salt-loving” bacteria and algae, which have pigments ranging from pink to deep red.
The Hague
52.070500°,4.300700° - Maxar
The Hague is a city in the Netherlands, located on the coast of the North Sea. Known as the home of international law and arbitration, it hosts the International Court of Justice, the main judicial arm of the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, Europol, and upwards of 200 other international governmental organizations. The Hague urban area is home to over half a million people, making it the third largest city in the nation.
Vilankulo
-22.000000°,35.316667° - Planet
Bright blue swirls of sea floor can be seen through the shallow waters offshore Vilankulo, Mozambique. These interesting patterns were formed by the Save River, which used to drain into the ocean nearby but has since changed its course. Home to about 25,000 people, the coastal town of Vilankulo is surrounded by numerous round lakes, which are also remnants of the river’s former path.
Baltimore
39.289444°,-76.615278° - Nearmap
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, with nearly 600,000 people living in its urban area. Established in 1729 and used as a major port since 1706, Baltimore has over 65,000 buildings in the National Register of Historic Places — more than any other city in the nation. This Overview features both of the city’s professional sports stadiums: Camden Yards, home of the Orioles, and M&T Bank Stadium, home of the Ravens.
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