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Vienna
48.200000°,16.366667° - Airbus Space
Vienna is the capital and most populous city in Austria, with about 1.9 million inhabitants — nearly one-third of the country’s population. In this Overview, we see Vienna’s historic center with its many architectural ensembles including grand palaces, monuments, gardens and parks. The Hofburg Palace, Vienna City Hall (Rathaus), Vienna State Opera, and St. Stephen’s Cathedral are all within view.
Hutt Lagoon
-28.172005°,114.261002° - Maxar
Hutt Lagoon is a massive lake in Western Australia that gets its pink color from a particular type of algae — Dunaliella salina — that grows in the water. The lagoon contains the world’s largest microalgae production plant, where the algae is farmed for its beta-carotene and then used as a food‑coloring agent and source of Vitamin A in other products. Hutt Lagoon also provides a commercial supply of Artemia brine shrimp, a specialty feed used by prawn and fish farmers and in the aquarium fish trade.
Old Head Golf Links
51.611290°,-8.536405° - Maxar
The Old Head Golf Links is an 18-hole golf course in Kinsale, Ireland. The facility is built on a 220-acre (89-hectare) diamond-shaped peninsula that juts 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) out into the Atlantic Ocean. The course is notoriously difficult, with many of its holes extending to the edge of cliffs perched about 300 feet (91 meters) above the water’s surface.
Raymond James Stadium
27.975833°,-82.503333° - Nearmap
Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, is the home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the setting for Super Bowl LV, the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL). The Buccaneers will be the first team to play a Super Bowl in their home stadium as they face off against the Kansas City Chiefs, last year’s champions. Kickoff is at 6:30 pm EST — will you be watching tonight?
Quito
-0.245193°,-78.515604° - Airbus Space
Quito is the capital and most populous city in Ecuador, with roughly 2 million residents. Located at an elevation of 9,350 feet (2,850 meters) above sea level, it is also the second highest official capital city in the world (behind La Paz, Bolivia). The city is divided into 32 urban parishes, or cabildos, and this Overview features the wavy street grid of the Chimbacalle parish.
Rhodes
36.433333°,28.216667° - Maxar
Rhodes is a city in Greece, located on an island of the same name in the southeastern Aegean Sea. It has been famous since antiquity as the site of the Colossus of Rhodes — one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — and remains a popular international tourist destination today. Near the center of this Overview, we see the city’s crescent-shaped citadel, surrounding one of the best-preserved medieval towns in Europe. Rhodes’ metropolitan area is home to about 90,000 people.
Mississippi River Delta
29.647500°,-89.914900° - Airbus Space
The Mississippi River Delta is the confluence of the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico off the southern tip of Louisiana, USA. It is the nation’s largest drainage basin and the seventh largest river delta on Earth, containing more than 4,200 square miles (11,000 square kilometers) of coastal wetlands. Its current shape, described as a “bird-foot delta” reflects the dominance the river exerts over other hydrologic and geologic forces in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Pyiduangsu Hluttaw
19.775348°,96.104724° - Maxar
Pyiduangsu Hluttaw, or The Assembly of the Union, is the national-level bicameral legislature of Myanmar. It is housed in a 31-building parliamentary complex in the capital city of Nay Pyi Taw, along with the nation’s Supreme Court, Presidential Palace, and other government headquarters. On Monday, just hours before a new session of Myanmar’s parliament was scheduled to open here, the country’s military seized power in a coup, detaining leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of her democratically elected ruling party.
Borkou, Chad
19.789330°,18.550998° - Airbus Space
Check out the amazing rock formations on display in this Overview of Chad’s Borkou Region. Covering more than 93,000 square miles (240,000 square km) in the Sahara Desert, Borkou is the largest region in the country but houses less than 1% of its population — just 97,251 people. In the top left of this Overview is Emi Koussi, a pyroclastic shield volcano and the highest point in Chad at 11,204 feet (3,415 meters).
Tahoe Keys
38.931667°,-120.013611° - Maxar
Tahoe Keys is a waterfront gated community in El Dorado County, California, USA. Built in the 1960s, the community consists of more than 1,500 homes on a series of canals that connect to Lake Tahoe. Its construction destroyed half of the Upper Truckee Marsh, the primary filter for river water entering the lake, and has since been called the most environmentally damaging intrusion on the lakeshore in Lake Tahoe’s human history.
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)
-6.127523°,106.651512° - Airbus Space
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport is the primary airport serving the Jakarta metropolitan area in Indonesia. It handled 66.9 million passengers in 2018, making it the 18th busiest airport in the world and the busiest in Southeast Asia. The airport’s boarding pavilions are examples of classic Indonesian architecture with roofs built in the Javanese stepped-roof style.
Perth Waves
-31.928646°,115.753307° - Nearmap
The beaches in Perth, Australia, are world-famous for their beautiful white sand and clear blue water. When seen from above, we can also discover the currents and swirls that are created here when the waves hit offshore reefs. While the patterns in the water may be beautiful, they also create powerful undertows that can be perilous for surfers and swimmers.
Dagenham
51.539700°,0.142200° - Maxar
Dagenham is a suburban town in East London, England with about 106,000 residents. This particular area is part of the Becontree estate, a 4-square-mile (10-square-kilometer) borough that was the largest public housing project in the world when it was constructed between 1921 and 1935. The 26,000-dwelling estate was intended to offer “homes fit for heroes” for World War I veterans.
Goryokaku
41.796944°,140.756944° - Maxar
Goryōkaku — meaning, literally, “five-point fort” — is a star fort in the city of Hakodate, Japan. The fortress was built by the Tokugawa shogunate in the mid-1800s to protect the Tsugaru Strait from a possible Russian invasion. Today, Goryōkaku serves as a park for the city’s 280,000 residents, as well as a national Special Historic Site and a hub for cherry-blossom viewing in the spring.
Sepang Goldcoast Resort
2.598436°,101.683153° - Maxar
Sepang Goldcoast Resort is a hotel in Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. It features over-water bungalows that extend out in a palm-shaped formation into the waters of the Malacca Straits.
Bratsk Pulp Mill
56.113654°,101.602842° - Maxar
Timber is frozen in the Angara River by a pulp mill in Bratsk, Russia. A pulp mill is a manufacturing facility that converts felled trees and wood chips into thick fiber board that is shipped to a paper mill for further processing. The facility in Bratsk handles about 540,000 cubic yards (413,000 cubic meters) of wood per year.
Cochabamba, Bolivia
-17.383333°,-66.166667° - Maxar
Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia with roughly 630,000 residents — the nation’s fourth most populous municipality. Like other large cities in the Andean highlands of South America, Cochabamba is a city of contrasts. Its central districts, seen here, are generally equipped with modern urban amenities and house many of its formal businesses and commercial industries, while some of the city’s outskirts contain simple adobe homes and unpaved roads.
Washington, D.C.
38.910100°,-77.014700° - Airbus
Today is Inauguration Day in the USA, and Washington, D.C., is bustling with activity as Joseph R. Biden Jr. is sworn in as the nation’s 46th President. Here we see an Overview of the capital city in its entirety — situated on the Potomac River between the states of Maryland and Virginia. Nearly all presidential inaugurations since 1801 have been held in Washington, D.C., and most have taken place at the Capitol Building, where today’s swearing-in ceremony takes place.
Our Lady of Almudena Cemetery
40.419444°,-3.640556° - Maxar
Our Lady of Almudena Cemetery in Madrid, Spain, is one of the largest cemeteries in Western Europe. The number of gravesites — estimated at 5 million — is greater than the population of Madrid itself. For nearly a century, from 1884 to 1973, Our Lady of Almudena served as the main cemetery for the entire capital city.
Roden Crater
35.425909°,-111.258776° - Maxar
The Roden Crater is a cinder cone from an extinct volcano located in the Painted Desert region of northern Arizona, USA. The 400,000-year-old, 3-mile-wide (4.8 km) crater is the site of a land art project in progress. Artist James Turrell is transforming its inner cone into a massive naked-eye observatory designed specifically for viewing and experiencing skylight, solar and celestial phenomena.
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