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Mendoza, Argentina Road Grid
-37.035056°,-69.451639° - Vantor
Roads create a grid-like pattern on the landscape in a remote section of Argentina’s Mendoza Province. This area has an arid climate and receives anywhere from 4 to 20 inches (100-500 mm) of precipitation per year. These conditions cause much of the soil to be dry and reddish, as shown in this Overview.
Hardy Reef - Great Barrier Reef
-18.286111°,147.700000° - Vantor
This Overview captures a small segment of the Great Barrier Reef, located off the coast of Queensland, in northeastern Australia. Composed of more than 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands, the reef system is Earth's largest structure made up of living things. The Great Barrier Reef stretches for more than 1,400 miles (2,300 km) and covers an area of roughly 130,000 square miles (344,400 sq. km).
Port of Vancouver
49.017889°,-123.159583° - Nearmap
The Roberts Bank Superport is a shipping facility in the Port of Vancouver, just offshore the city of Delta in British Columbia, Canada. It is home to the single busiest coal export terminal in North America, which typically ships more than 20 million tons of export coal a year. Currently, there are plans to expand the facility and add a new three-berth container terminal, which would provide an additional 2.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units of container capacity.
Palm Springs International Airport (PSP)
33.829722°,-116.506667° - Nearmap
A single airplane waits at the international terminal of Palm Springs International Airport in Palm Springs, California. The airport is highly seasonal, operating a majority of its flights in the winter, and it has been called one of America's most “stress-free" airports. In 2017, it handled slightly more than 2.1 million passengers across 12 airlines.
Sound of Speed Airshow
39.771944°,-94.909694° - Nearmap
In this Overview, spectators explore a variety of aircraft during the Sound of Speed Airshow, which took place last weekend at Rosecrans Memorial Airport in St. Joseph, Missouri. The event included aerial performances and ground displays of dozens of aircraft, including U.S. Navy Blue Angels, C-130 Hercules transporters, P-51 Mustangs, an F-16 Viper, and more.
Walter Pyramid
33.787222°,-118.114167° - Nearmap
The Walter Pyramid, formerly known as “The Pyramid,” is a 4,000-seat indoor arena on the campus of Long Beach State University in Long Beach, California. Each side of the 18-story-tall complex is 345 feet (105 m), making it a mathematically true pyramid. It is one of just three true pyramid-style buildings the United States, the others being Luxor Las Las Vegas and the Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee.
Salar de Uyuni
-20.133778°,-67.489139° - Vantor
Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat, covering 4,086 square miles (10,582 sq. km) in southwestern Bolivia. This area is estimated to contain roughly 10 billion tons of salt, underneath which lies between 50% and 70% of the world’s known lithium reserves. The salar also contains large amounts of sodium, potassium, magnesium and borax.
Ouarzazate Solar Power Station - Noor 3
31.009167°,-6.862222° - Vantor
Noor 3 is one of four sections of the Ouarzazate Solar Power Station in the Drâa-Tafilalet region of Morocco. The solar concentrator contains thousands of mirrors that focus the sun’s thermal energy to heat molten salt flowing through a massive central tower. The molten salt then circulates from the tower to a storage tank, where it is used to produce steam and generate electricity. This segment of the facility opened in spring of this year and is expected to begin delivering power to Morocco’s electricity grid by October.
Albuquerque Baseball Complex
35.095083°,-106.763639° - Nearmap
The Albuquerque Baseball Complex is part of an 81-acre, city-owned sports complex in the Westland North community of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its five fully lit turfed fields provide space for local baseball and softball teams to practice and play, and grandstand seating allows the facility to host regional and national tournaments. Next June, this sports complex will host the National Senior Games, a 20-sport biennial competition for men and women ages 50 and older.
Nisqually River
47.082500°,-122.721667° - Vantor
The Nisqually River flows for roughly 81 miles (130 km) through west central Washington, emptying into the southern end of the Puget Sound. The river’s delta, captured in this Overview, is both a National Wildlife Refuge and a National Natural Landmark, providing a habitat for more than 300 different species of fish and wildlife.
Shanghai - Low Angle
31.234722°,121.506389° - Planet
Check out this incredible perspective of Shanghai, China, captured by a Planet satellite at a low angle. With more than 24 million residents, Shanghai is the most populous city in China and the second-most populous city proper in the world. Many of Shanghai's landmarks are visible in this Overview, including the Oriental Pearl Tower, the Jin Mao Tower, and the Shanghai World Financial Center.
James Bay
52.777778°,-81.933444° - Vantor
A tributary of the Attawapiskat River drains into James Bay in northeastern Ontario, Canada. James Bay is a body of water within Hudson Bay, which extends south from the Arctic Ocean. Human presence along the shores of the bay can be traced back to the end of the last ice age roughly 8,150 years ago, and a number of Aboriginal communities remain there today.
United States Air Force Academy
39.008472°,-104.888667° - Nearmap
The United States Air Force Academy covers 29 square miles (75 sq. km) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This segment of the campus, known as the Cadet Area, features the well-known Cadet Chapel, dormitories, academic buildings, and dining, entertainment and sports facilities. At the center of the Cadet Area is a large, grassy common area known as The Terrazzo.
Leimert Park
34.014806°,-118.331361° - Nearmap
Leimert Park is a residential neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California. With many blues and jazz night clubs, hip hop venues, and theaters for musicals, comedy performances, poetry readings and award ceremonies, it is often considered the center of Los Angeles’ contemporary African-American arts scene.
Ob River
62.420167°,66.307250° - Vantor
The Ob is a major river in western Siberia, Russia, and the seventh-longest river in the world, flowing for 2,268 miles (3,650 km). It is a vital resource for many Siberian communities, providing irrigation, drinking water, hydroelectric energy and fishing. The Gulf of Ob, which forms a bay on the Arctic Ocean, is the world’s longest estuary at 620 miles (1,000 km) long.
Arecibo Observatory
18.344167°,-66.752778° - Vantor
The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The telescope, which is 1,000 feet (305 m) in diameter, is used for three major areas of research — radio astronomy, atmospheric science, and radar astronomy. Last year, high winds associated with Hurricane Maria caused a line feed on the telescope to break and fall onto the primary dish, damaging about 30 of its 38,000 aluminum panels.
Greater Caucasus Mountains
43.598917°,40.358111° - Vantor
The Greater Caucasus Mountains form a natural border between Russia and Georgia, stretching east to west from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. This Overview shows a stretch of mountains in Abkhazia, a de facto and partially recognized republic in northwestern Georgia. Disputes over the status of this region led to the War in Abkhazia from 1992 to 1993 and remains a central issue in Georgia-Russia relations today.
Mount Vernon Flower Nursery
48.445000°,-122.358361° - Nearmap
A variety of flowers, ornamental grasses, and other plants grow at a nursery in Mount Vernon, Washington — a small city roughly 60 miles (96 km) north of Seattle. Mount Vernon is the county seat of Skagit County, which has a climate similar to Northern France and thus yields millions of tulips every year.
Jönköping
57.782778°,14.160556° - Vantor
Jönköping is a city in southern Sweden with roughly 94,000 inhabitants. It is situated at the southern end of Vättern, Sweden's second largest lake. Our founder Benjamin Grant is currently traveling there and two other towns at the southern end of Vättern to speak and meet with students. He will visit Jönköping University, the town of Hjo, and will do an exhibition of prints in collaboration with Uponwalls in the harbor in Granvik.
MS Spirit of Tasmania
-37.847611°,144.930583° - Nearmap
The MS Spirit of Tasmania backs away from a pier in the Port of Melbourne, Australia. This ferry makes daily trips to and from Melbourne and Devonport, Tasmania — a journey of roughly 9 hours. Tasmania is an island state of Australia, located 150 miles (240 km) to the south of the Australian mainland.
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