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Antofagasta, Chile
-23.650000°,-70.400000° - Maxar
Waves of the Pacific Ocean roll into Antofagasta, Chile. Since the city is situated in the Atacama Desert — the driest region in the world — it has incredibly sparse vegetation. In total, Antofagasta is home to nearly 400,000 residents and is the third largest city in the country.
Reggane Rock
25.035917°,-3.151167° - Maxar
Check out this incredible rock formation we found in the Sahara Desert, near the town of Reggane, Algeria. The climate in this region is torrid and almost rainless, with an average annual rainfall of less than 0.4 inches (10 mm). In the summer, daytime temperatures are known to consistently reach 122°F (50°C), earning this area its nickname — the “triangle of fire.”
Prague
50.083333°,14.416667° - Maxar
Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, with an estimated 2.7 million people living in its metropolitan area. Founded in the 7th century during the Romanesque period and flourishing throughout the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque eras, the city is a rich cultural hub of central Europe. This Overview shows the Vltava River winding through Prague’s city center.
Poyang Lake Dredgers
29.572945°,116.143734° - Maxar
Sand dredging boats gather on Poyang Lake in China’s Jiangxi Province, one of the world’s busiest dredging sites. On an average day here, hundreds of vessels can collect upwards of 10,000 tonnes of sand per hour, much of which is used in land reclamation projects. Poyang is China’s largest lake, but it is losing water fast — its outflow channels have been carved deeper and wider by dredging. This Overview is featured in our newest story ‘Dredging Up Problems,’ which takes a look at land reclamation and it’s impact on our environment.Read the full story →
Jwaneng Diamond Mine
-24.523050°,24.699750° - Maxar
The Jwaneng Diamond Mine in Botswana is the richest diamond mine in the world, with an annual output of as much as 15.6 million carats. Mine richness takes into account the rate of diamond extraction combined with quality of the diamonds that are mined, by sale price per weight. To extract the diamonds, the facility produces 9.3 million tons of ore and an additional 37 million tons of waste rock per year.
Helsinki
60.170833°,24.937500° - Maxar
Helsinki is the capital and most populous city of Finland, with a population of slightly more than 650,000. Located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the country's center of politics, education, finance, culture and research. Helsinki has one of the world's highest standards of urban living, and the United Nations “World Happiness Report” has named Finland the Happiest Country in the World for the five consecutive years.
Cape Coral, Florida
26.639722°,-81.982500° - Maxar
Since many cities in the state of Florida contain master-planned communities, often built on top of waterways in the latter half of the twentieth century, a number of intricate designs are visible from the Overview perspective. Here is one particular development in Cape Coral, a city with a population of more than 190,000 people. Cape Coral is the largest city between Tampa and Miami and has more than 400 miles (640 km) of navigable waterways.
Mar del Plata
-38.000000°,-57.550000° - Maxar
Mar del Plata is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. With more than 600,000 residents and several million visitors per year, it is the largest seaside resort city in Argentina and also one of the country’s major fishing ports. The city is host to a mix of architectural styles, including picturesque, art deco and the vernacular Mar del Plata Style — chalets with stone facades, gable roofs of Spanish or French tile, prominent eaves and front porches.
Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
34.138029°,-118.728268° - National Wildlife Federation
The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing will be the world’s largest wildlife overpass when it’s completed around 2025. Constructed across the Ventura Freeway near Los Angeles, California, the 200-foot-long (61-meter), 165-foot-wide (50-meter) corridor will provide safe crossing for mountain lions and other animals, using vegetation and walls to block light and noise from vehicles. Construction broke ground on Earth Day of this year and this rendering uses satellite imagery to show the planned, finished look of the corridor.
Barranquilla
10.963889°,-74.796389° - Planet
Barranquilla is a city in northern Colombia, located on the Caribbean Sea next to the Magdalena River. With had a population of about 2.2 million, it is Colombia's fourth-most populous city after Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali. This Overview also shows the city of Soledad, which borders Barranquilla to the south and is part of its metropolitan area.
Harrat Khaybar
25.637794°,39.958346° - Maxar
Volcanic craters cover the landscape in Harrat Khaybar, a lava field in Saudi Arabia. Formed by a series of eruptions over 5 million years, the Harrat covers an area of more than 4,600 square miles (12,000 square km). In the bottom right of this Overview is White Mountain, a geological rarity which gets its pale color from a huge volcanic explosion that emitted gases and white ash containing silicon.
Palma de Mallorca
39.566667°,2.650000° - Airbus Space
Palma is a resort city and capital of the Spanish island of Mallorca, in the western Mediterranean. Tourism has caused Palma to grow significantly since the mid-1900s and is consequently its main economic sector. In fact, more than half of the island’s 410,000 residents work in tourism.
Giudecca
45.427185°,12.324909° - Airbus Space
Today we’re excited to share our first high-resolution Overview from Pléiades Neo, the latest high-resolution satellite from Airbus Space! Here we see part of Venice, Italy – a city of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges. Giudecca, visible on the right side of this Overview, is a series of eight small islands separated from the heart of the city by the Giudecca Canal.
Mars Backshell Wreckage
0.000000°,0.000000° - NASA
This Overview of Mars, captured by NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, shows the wreckage of a “backshell” — a component that detached from the Perseverance rover when it landed on Mars in February 2021. We can also see the backshell’s 70-foot-wide (21-meter) parachute in frame. The Ingenuity is a robotic helicopter that follows the Perseverance rover around Mars, taking photos as it hovers above the red planet’s surface. This photo was taken, along with 9 others, during its 26th flight last week, which lasted 159 seconds and spanned 1,181 feet (360 meters).
Santorini
36.416667°,25.433333° - Maxar
Santorini, officially known as Thira, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea. It is known for its beautiful scenery and traditional architecture — low-lying cubical houses made of stone, often whitewashed to reflect the hot mediterranean sun. Santorini’s primary industry is tourism, welcoming about 2 million visitors every year. This Overview also shows Therasia, Nea Kameni, Palaia Kameni, and Aspronisi, four smaller islands included in the municipality of Santorini.
Kuala Lumpur
3.147778°,101.695278° - Maxar
Kuala Lumpur is the capital and largest city in Malaysia, with an estimated 1.73 million residents. In recent decades, the city center has undergone rapid development and seen the addition of numerous skyscrapers, including the Petronas Towers — the tallest twin buildings in the world. In fact, Kuala Lumpur ranks 10th among cities with buildings above 100 meters, with a combined height of 34,035 metres from its 244 high rise buildings.
Iceland
64.963100°,-19.020800° - Airbus Space
Iceland is a Nordic island nation famous for its dramatic landscape of volcanoes, geysers, lava fields, fjords and hot springs. It also contains some of Europe’s largest glaciers, including Vatnajökull, a massive ice cap that covers about 8% of the country’s land area. Iceland has roughly 371,000 residents, more than 65% of whom live in the capital city of Reykjavík.
Plaza Mayor
40.415364°,-3.707398° - Costas Spathis
Plaza Mayor is a public square in the heart of Madrid, Spain. Dating back to the 15th century, it once served as the central marketplace of Old Madrid. Today, the 130,000-square-foot (12,000-square-meter) space still provides residents and tourists a location for shopping, eating, and enjoying a space outdoors.
Mount Vesuvius
40.822382°,14.420151° - Maxar
Mount Vesuvius is a somma-stratovolcano located in Campania, Italy, about 5.6 miles (9 km) east of Naples. It is best known for its eruption in AD 79, which killed thousands and destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae. With an eruption as recent as 1944 and at least 3 million living nearby, Vesuvius is regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world.
Wallis
-13.287898°,-176.200937° - Planet
Wallis, also known as Uvéa, is a Polynesian atoll in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna. Surrounded by a lagoon, barrier reef and some 15 smaller islands, it spans 39 square miles (100 square km) and has 8,333 residents. Wallis is of volcanic origin, with fertile soil and plentiful rainfall to support subsistence farming.
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