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Insein Prison
16.892715°,96.097986° - Vantor
This Overview adds an aerial perspective to today’s @nytimes report on Insein Prison near Yangon, Myanmar. The prison – the circular structure and surrounding buildings seen at center – is notorious worldwide for its inhumane conditions, corruption, abuse of inmates, and use of mental and physical torture. Though it was already at double its 5,000-person capacity, Insein has received an influx of political prisoners since the Myanmar military seized control of the nation in a February 1st coup.
Goma
-1.679444°,29.233611° - Vantor
Goma is a city of about 670,000 people in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located on the northern shore of Lake Kivu, just 8 miles (13 km) south of the active Nyiragongo Volcano. This week, tens of thousands of residents are evacuating the city after authorities warned that the volcano, which first erupted last weekend, could erupt again soon.
Grounded Planes at Roswell
33.301556°,-104.530556° - Vantor
This Overview from November 2020 shows hundreds of airplanes parked at the Roswell International Air Center in Roswell, New Mexico. Scenes of grounded planes like this were commonplace throughout last year as COVID-19 upended the airline industry, but air travel is now on the rebound. Although major U.S. airports are still serving far fewer travelers than they did before the pandemic, average daily passenger volumes have risen consistently in 2021, from roughly 600,000 in early January to as high as 1.8 million this week.
Noor III
31.059494°,-6.870344° - Vantor
Noor III is the newest stage of the Ouarzazate Solar Power Station in Ouarzazate, Morocco. This site utilizes a concentrated solar power (CSP) tower design with 7,400 heliostat mirrors that focus the sun’s thermal energy toward the top of a 820-foot-high (250 meters) tower at its center. At the top of the tower, there is molten salt, which is used in this process due to its ability to get very hot (500–1022°F / 260–550°C). The molten salt then circulates from the tower to a storage tank, where it is used to produce steam and generate electricity. The Noor III CSP tower can produce and then store enough energy to provide continuous power to the surrounding area for ten days.
Budapest at Night
47.492500°,19.051389° - NASA
Budapest, Hungary photographed at night from the International Space Station. Amid the lights of the capital city is the dark void of the Danube, Europe’s second-longest river. Budapest’s metropolitan area spans 2,944 square miles (7,626 square km) and houses roughly 3.3 million people — one-third of Hungary’s total population.
Central Park From a Helicopter
40.782222°,-73.965278° - Benjamin Grant
Check out Central Park captured from helicopter by our founder, Benjamin Grant. 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.
Polignano a Mare
41.000000°,17.216667° - Vantor
Check out this Overview of Polignano a Mare, Italy. Located on the Adriatic Sea, the town is a popular tourist destination with its limestone cliffs, white-washed houses, and deep blue waters. It is also renowned for its beaches, most notably Cala Porto which is known for its white and aquamarine-colored pebbles.
Loco Hills Oil Rigs
32.823349°,-104.128032° - Vantor
Oil rigs checker the landscape around Loco Hills, New Mexico. Thousands of drilling platforms like these can be seen throughout southeastern New Mexico and western Texas, covering a region known the Permian Basin. This basin, which contains one of the world’s thickest deposits of rock from the Permian geologic period, accounted for more than one-third of U.S. domestic oil production in 2019.
Hastings Island
10.109656°,98.296127° - Airbus Space
Hastings Island is one of more than 800 islands in Myanmar’s Mergui Archipelago. Seen here with the smaller South Phipps and Barwell islands, Hastings is covered by dense mangrove jungle and has white sandy beaches on its western side. The Mergui Archipelago is one of Asia’s last virtually untouched island regions, sparsely populated by indigenous people and visited by only a couple thousand tourists per year.
Center, Colorado
37.751351°,-106.110195° - Planet
Hundreds of pivot irrigation circles surround the town of Center, Colorado. Located on the border of Rio Grande and Saguache counties, about one-third of the town’s industry is based in agriculture or grocery wholesaling. The circles form when lines of sprinklers, powered by electric motors, rotate 360 degrees to evenly irrigate crops.
Venice Grand Canal
45.438000°,12.336000° - Sebastien Nagy
Check out this awesome drone shot of the Grand Canal flowing through Venice, Italy. One of the major water-traffic corridors in the city, the Grand Canal is 2.4 miles (3.8 km) long, between 98 and 295 feet (30-90 m) wide, and has an average depth of 16 feet (5 m). Near the top of this image — where the canal bends — we can see the famous Ponte di Rialto, a 16th-century stone pedestrian bridge and major Venetian tourist attraction.
Hoover Dam
36.015844°,-114.738804° - Nearmap
The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, situated on the border of Nevada and Arizona. Standing 726.4 feet (221.4 m) tall and 1,244 feet (376 m) long, it impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume. Construction of the Hoover Dam between 1931 and 1936 served as a massive public works project of the Great Depression, employing thousands of workers — in fact, when the dam was authorized, nearly 20,000 unemployed individuals flocked to Las Vegas (a city of just 5,000 at the time) in hopes of finding work.
Southern Alps
-43.595000°,170.141944° - NASA
The Southern Alps (Kā Tiritiri o te Moana) is a mountain range that extends along much of the length of New Zealand’s South Island. This Overview, captured by an astronaut onboard the International Space Station, shows the range’s highest elevation areas including Aoraki / Mount Cook, the nation’s highest point at 12,218 feet (3,724 m) above sea level. To the east of the Southern Alps is a series of turquoise glacial lakes — the three seen here are Lake Tekapo (top), Lake Pukaki, and Lake Ohau (bottom).
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport
19.088611°,72.868056° - Airbus Space
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM) is the primary international airport serving India’s Mumbai Metropolitan Area. It has three terminals and two runways spread across 1,850 acres (750 hectares) in the suburbs of Santacruz and Sahar Village. BOM is the second busiest airport in the nation by total passenger traffic, serving 49.8 million travelers in 2018.
Madrid Atocha Railway Station
40.406667°,-3.689444° - Vantor
The Atocha Railway Station is the largest train station in Madrid, Spain. The facility serves as a hub for commuter trains, intercity and regional trains from the south, and AVE high-speed trains. In 1992, the station’s original terminal building was converted into a concourse with shops, a nightclub, and a 43,055-square-foot (4,000 square meter) tropical botanical garden.
Île d'Oléron
45.863074°,-1.206273° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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.”
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