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La Condesa
19.412525°,-99.169422° - Maxar
La Condesa is a neighborhood in the Cuauhtémoc Borough of Mexico City, located a few miles west of the city's main square. Its wide, tree-lined avenues, stately art nouveau mansions and well-maintained art deco apartment buildings give it a distinctly European feel. Avenida Amsterdam, the elliptical roadway seen on the left side of this Overview, was used as a private automobile and horse-racing track in the early 1900s; today it encircles Parque México, a large urban park.
The Vatican
41.902500°,12.452500° - Airbus Space
Happy Easter! This Overview shows the Vatican City and the surrounding city of Rome, Italy from a low angle. At the top we see St. Peter’s Basilica, regarded as one of the holiest Catholic sites and one of the greatest architectural feats in all of Christendom. With an area of 121 acres (49 hectares) and a population of about 825, The Vatican is the smallest state in the world by both area and population.
Gruissan
43.107778°,3.084444° - Maxar
Gruissan is a commune of about 5,000 residents, located on the Mediterranean coast of southern France. Traditionally a fishing village, the circular town is built around a former 10th century château, of which only the Tour Barberousse (Redbeard Tower) remains. The castle ruin can be seen near the center of this Overview surrounded by green trees.
Penikese Island
41.450107°,-70.923091° - Maxar
Today, Lindblad Expeditions introduces Penikese Island, part of the Elizabeth Island chain in Buzzard’s Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Since the late 19th century, the island has contained a natural history school, a leprosy hospital for residents of Massachusetts, and a substance abuse treatment facility. All are gone now with only resident seabirds remaining, along with a few wind-worn, shingled rustic buildings in the classic, archetypal style of the Cape, set on a grassy plain overlooking the bay. To learn more or explore this region, visit expeditions.com.
SS Maheno Shipwreck
-25.267349°,153.238534° - Andreas Dress
The wreck of the SS Maheno can be found on the east coast of Fraser Island in Queensland, Australia. The ship — which was washed ashore by a cyclone in 1935 — was an ocean liner that made regular crossings between New Zealand and Australia in the early 20th century. The 5,000-ton steel-hulled ship has slowly disintegrated over the years and remains a popular tourist attraction.
Lake Suğla
37.310056°,32.028551° - Planet
Agricultural development surrounds Lake Suğla in southwestern Turkey. Water levels in the lake fluctuate greatly throughout the year, causing its surface area to range between 9 and 31 square miles (25-80 square kilometers). The lake’s cloudy green color in this Overview is likely due to a high concentration of algae.
Hawaii
21.307500°,-157.857500° - Airbus Space
Hawaii is an archipelago located about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from the U.S. mainland in the Pacific Ocean. The state is comprised of 137 volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous small seamounts. A common explanation of the name Hawaii (also the name of its largest island) is that it was named for Hawaiʻiloa, a legendary figure from Hawaiian myth. Upwards of 1.4 million people currently live here.
Tokai Steel Mill
35.035200°,136.878900° - Maxar
Colorful, metal-roofed industrial buildings line the coast of Tokai, Japan. The city’s economy is dominated by a massive steel mill, a portion of which is seen at the bottom of this Overview. Nippon Steel, the company that owns the mill, has an annual production of more than 47 million tons of steel across its various facilities. Steel—consisting of alloys of iron and other elements, primarily carbon—is a major component in buildings, infrastructure, tools, ships, automobiles, appliances, and weapons.
Augusta National Golf Club
33.500996°,-82.022189° - Nearmap
The Masters Tournament, played at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, enters its second of four rounds today. It is the first of four major championships in professional golf, followed each year by the PGA Championship, U.S Open and The Open Championship. South Korean Sung-jae Im finished Round 1 in the lead, but much attention is on five-time Masters winner Tiger Woods, who returns after a year of recovery following a 2021 car accident. Who are you rooting for?
Bahamas Clouds
23.919435°,-79.882190° - Maxar
Clouds cover the Atlantic Ocean in the waters off the coast of The Bahamas. Cumulus clouds like these usually occur on sunny days, usually no higher than 6,600 feet (2,000 m) above the ground. Normally, cumulus clouds produce little or no rain, but they can grow into precipitation-bearing cumulonimbus clouds.
Central Park Foliage
40.782222°,-73.965278° - Craig Fruchtman
Check out this shot of Central Park with fall foliage ! Located in the middle of Manhattan in New York City, the park spans 843 acres — or 6% of the borough. One of the most influential innovations in the park's design was its "separate circulation" systems for pedestrians, horseback riders, and automobiles. This concealed "crosstown" commercial traffic in sunken roadways, and densely planted shrub belts in order to maintain a rustic ambiance.
Puente de Vallecas
40.380130°,-3.655530° - Maxar
Colorful apartment buildings with communal courtyards are seen here in the Puente de Vallecas district of Madrid, Spain. The district has around 240,000 mostly working-class inhabitants.
Everglades National Park
25.364334°,-81.121068° - Maxar
Everglades National Park in Florida is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States east of the Mississippi River, covering more than 1.5 million acres. The park was established in 1934 to protect the area’s fragile ecosystem and is home to dozens of threatened or protected species, including the American crocodile and West Indian manatee.
Dead Sea Salt Pans
31.148018°,35.453528° - Maxar
The southern basin of the Dead Sea, which straddles the border between Israel and Jordan, is partitioned into saltwater evaporation pans. It was separated from the northern basin in 1979 due to a drop in water level; in fact, the surface area of the Sea has shrunk by about 33% since the 1960s. Salts have been collected from the Dead Sea for thousands of years and have a reputation for treating common skin ailments, allergies, rheumatologic conditions and more.
Hamburg, Germany
53.550530°,9.969369° - Maxar
Hamburg, Germany is a major port city connected to the North Sea by the Elbe River. Its many streams, rivers, and canals are crossed by roughly 2,500 bridges — more than London, Amsterdam, and Venice combined. With more than 1.84 million residents, Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany (after Berlin) and the largest non-capital city in the European Union.
Ever Forward
39.077684°,-76.423192° - Maxar
The Ever Forward container ship has been stuck in the Chesapeake Bay for nearly two weeks after it ran aground offshore Pasadena, Maryland. This Overview shows the 1,095-foot-long (334-meter) vessel next to the dredging equipment attempting to free it from the shoal. The Ever Forward was manufactured by the same company as the Ever Given, the container ship that was stuck in the Suez Canal for nearly a week in March 2021.
Ukrainians Strike Berdyansk
46.750694°,36.773799° - Maxar
Ukrainian armed forces damaged multiple Russian landing ships yesterday in a strike on the occupied port of Berdyansk in southern Ukraine. At the top of this Overview, smokes rises from oil storage vessels damaged in the attack alongside a partially-submerged “Saratov" Alligator-class landing ship. Russian media reporting filmed before the strike indicated that the ships may have been transporting military equipment and in the process possibly revealed the ships’ location, making them vulnerable for attack.
Zebra Shadows
-20.041667°,24.768889° - Beverly Joubert / National Geographic
Zebras, and their shadows, make their way across a sandy landscape in Botswana. Every year, more than 20,000 zebras migrate through Botswana’s Nxai Pan National Park, making a 500 kilometer (310 miles) round trip journey for fresh grazing — the longest of all large mammal migrations in Africa.
Mariupol Theater Bombing
47.096111°,37.548611° - Maxar
The Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine was bombed by the Russian Armed Forces on March 16. At the time, the theater was being used as an air raid shelter for an estimated 1,300 people. It is still unclear how many people were trapped or killed in the attack. In the first frame here with the theater's red roof still intact, the word “Children” can be seen written in large Cyrillic letters outside the building, raising even more fear that many families were sheltering there during the attack. Mariupol, the tenth-largest city in Ukraine, has been besieged since February 24th.
Manshiyat Naser
30.033485°,31.275294° - Maxar
Manshiyat Naser is a ward of Cairo, Egypt, famous for its "Garbage City" settlement. This slum is home to Cairo's largest concentration of Zabbaleen people — a community of 50,000-70,000 who support themselves by collecting trash door-to-door throughout the city. The Zabbaleen recycle up to 80% of the waste they collect, while most Western garbage collecting companies only recycle about one-quarter of the waste they collect.
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