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Île d'Oléron
45.863074°,-1.206273° - Maxar
Île d'Oléron is an island off the west coast of France in the Bay of Biscay. It is known worldwide for its many salt marshes and oyster farms, which can be seen here along the island’s southern coast. Oléron has about 21,000 inhabitants and is the second largest island in Metropolitan France, after Corsica, with an area of 67 square miles (174 square km).
Kawah Ijen
-8.058000°,114.242000° - Maxar
Kawah Ijen is a stratovolcano in the East Java Province of Indonesia. It has a 0.6-mile-wide (1 km) turquoise-colored acidic crater lake, which is the site of a major sulfur mining operation. At night, when sulfuric gases make contact with fresh air, electric blue flames can be seen rising from volcano up to 16 feet (5 m) high.
Dhahran Interchange
26.353639°,50.136889° - Maxar
A clover leaf interchange connects the King Abdulaziz and Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd roads in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The city’s extensive highway network is strategically important to its oil industry and local population; however, as car ownership in Saudi Arabia has soared in recent years, roads have become congested at peak times.
Grammichele
37.214722°,14.636389° - Maxar
Grammichele is located on the island of Sicily in southern Italy. The town was constructed in 1693 with a distinctive hexagonal street plan after an earthquake destroyed the nearby old town of Occhialà. Grammichele is home to about 13,000 people.
Wadi Rum
29.574298°,35.412261° - Maxar
May the Fourth be with you! Wadi Rum is a village in Jordan that has been populated by humans since prehistoric times (8th century BC). Early inhabitants left their mark in the form of rock paintings, which have been thoroughly analyzed by historians. The area has also served as a film set for many movies, including “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.”
Cambridge Gulf
-14.979640°,128.091861° - Maxar
An array of colors can be seen in the wetlands of Cambridge Gulf, located on the north coast of Western Australia’s Kimberley region. The western shore of the gulf, shown here, is backed by sandstone hills and fringed with colonies of mangroves and mudflats, which appear when the tide is low. Cambridge Gulf experiences two large tidal flows per day between 23 and 30 feet (7-9 meters).
Niagara Falls - Low Angle
43.077305°,-79.075620° - Nearmap
Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the border between Ontario, Canada, and the US state of New York. Horseshoe Falls, the largest of the three, is seen here. The falls have the highest flow rate of any waterfall in the world, with a vertical drop of more than 165 feet (50 meters).
Hvolsvöllur Stream
63.637065°,-20.427382° - Maxar
A stream carrying bright orange silt meets the North Atlantic Ocean near the town of Hvolsvöllur, Iceland. Many tributaries like this one can be seen along the southern coast of the country, fed by several massive glaciers and glacial lakes further inland. Roughly 11% of Iceland’s land area is covered by glaciers, the largest of which — Vatnajökull — contains about as much water as 1.7 billion swimming pools.
Balduina
41.920370°,12.441917° - Maxar
Balduina is a residential neighborhood in the Municipio XIX of Rome, Italy. Situated on the southern side of Monte Mario at 456 feet (139 meters) above sea level, it is highest part of the city. Modern Balduina began with a few elegant villas around 1909, and a much bigger expansion occurred after World War II with a boom of typical Roman Palazzines — four- or five-story buildings, divided into apartments.
New Delhi
28.615593°,77.209023° - Maxar
New Delhi serves as the capital of India and is home to more than 21 million residents in its metro area. Officially inaugurated in February 1931, the city was planned by British architects Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker. Their design centered around two promenades -- the Rajpath and the Janpath -- that run perpendicular to each other and intersect here at center.
Moscow, Russia
55.750000°,37.616667° - Maxar
Moscow is the capital and most populous city in Russia, with about 13 million residents it its city limits and more than 20 million in its metropolitan area. The city is organized into five concentric transportation rings that surround the Kremlin, all of which can be seen here. Moscow sits on the Moskva River, which is connected by canal to the Volga River, ultimately giving the capital city access to five seas: the White Sea, Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea, Sea of Azov, and the Black Sea.
Coral Reef Restoration
26.557605°,-78.565132° - Nicholas von Albedyhll
Located in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Coral Vita is the world’s first commercial land-based coral farm for reef restoration, growing coral to restore dying reefs. Unfortunately, half of Earth’s reefs are already dead and more than 90% are on track to die by 2050. Meaningful action to counteract climate change, overfishing, and pollution is not happening fast enough. That’s where Coral Vita reef restoration comes into play. They use breakthrough methods to grow coral up to 50x faster — in months instead of decades — while strengthening their resilience to warming oceans. Using a land-based aquaculture farming model, a single farm can potentially supply an entire island or nation’s reefs with more diverse, resilient, and affordable coral.
Donghai Bridge Wind Farm
30.770000°,121.994000° - Maxar
With the incoming tide, streaks of sediment form around the turbines of the Donghai Bridge Wind Farm in Shanghai, China. This facility was the first commercial offshore wind farm in China and has the capacity to power 200,000 homes.
Project Vesta Test Beach
15.468975°,-74.965644° - Maxar
This Overview shows a test beach in the Caribbean where Project Vesta is advancing the science of Coastal Carbon Capture — an elegant natural solution to sequestering CO2 by spreading an abundant mineral called olivine. The exact location of the beach will be disclosed in the coming months. Olivine sand that is placed in coastal waters accelerates the Earth’s natural, long-term carbon-capture process.
Bicycle Snake
55.662590°,12.563680° - VisitCopenhagen
The Bicycle Snake (or Cykelslangen) is a 200-meter long ramp in Copenhagen, Denmark. The structure was created because 12,500 cyclists needed to bring their bikes up and down a large staircase each day. Instead of just replacing the staircase with a ramp, the architects proposed a plan with a new and beautiful approach to navigating the area. The Bicycle Snake now meanders 6-7 meters above the sea's surface and is painted in a bright orange color to increase visibility for cyclists.
Tampa Bay
27.762500°,-82.545833° - Airbus Space
Tampa Bay is a large natural harbor connected to the Gulf of Mexico on the west central coast of Florida, USA. It is surrounded by a major metropolitan area comprised of three main cities — Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater — and upwards of 3.1 million residents. The bay is also Florida’s largest open-water estuary, providing over 400 square miles (1,000 square km) of habitat for a wide variety of wildlife.
Isla Cristina Citrus Trees
37.241136°,-7.294464° - Maxar
Citrus trees create fingerprint-like patterns on the landscape near Isla Cristina, Spain. The climate in this region is ideal for citrus growth, with an average temperature of 64° F (18°C) and a relative humidity between 60% and 80%.
South Stradbroke Island
-27.750034°,153.450350° - Nearmap
Waves roll into sand dunes on the northern tip of South Stradbroke Island in Queensland, Australia. The island is long and narrow — 13 miles (21 km) by 1.6 miles (2.5 km) — and lies just meters off the mainland in the Coral Sea. It is covered by sand dunes, palm rainforest and wetlands, and is home to hundreds of wild wallabies.
Whitsun Reef
9.993889°,114.657500° - Maxar
This Overview shows dozens of Chinese ships anchored at Whitsun Reef in the South China Sea, roughly 200 miles (322 km) west of Palawan Island, of the Philippines. Ownership of this reef and the surrounding Spratly Islands is contested by China, the Philippines and other nearby nations. The arrival of these Chinese ships in March 2021 has spurred a diplomatic incident, causing the United States to warn China against further aggressive moves in the region.
Bolivian Deforestation
-17.387750°,-60.562131° - Maxar
Deforestation of the rainforest is visible in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Deforestation in the country has primarily been driven by the expansion of mechanized agriculture and cattle ranching. This Overview highlights the country’s struggle to expand food production in order to meet the needs of its growing population, and the sacrificial destruction of its forests that has taken place to do so.
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