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Stelvio Pass
46.528611°,10.452777° - Maxar Technologies
The Stelvio Pass in northern Italy is the highest paved roadway in the Eastern Alps, with an elevation of 2,757 meters (9,045 feet) above sea level. Only accessible in the summer months, the road and its 75 hairpin turns are sometimes scaled during the famous Giro d’Italia cycling race.
Kuşadası
37.859722°,27.259722° - Maxar Technologies
Kuşadası is a resort town located on the Aegean Sea in Turkey. While the town has roughly 64,00 residents for most of year, in the summer months its population can rise to nearly half a million people with the influx of tourists.
Lava Field
38.968922°,-112.472327° - Maxar Technologies
Pivot irrigation fields surround a lava field known as The Cinders, in Millard County, Utah. Along with farming, one of the elements of Millard County's economy is fossil digging as Trilobite fossils are relatively common in the region west of Delta.
Harris Cattle Ranch
36.305402°,-120.258655° - Maxar Technologies
Harris Cattle Ranch is located in the San Joaquin Valley in California. Spanning 800 acres with a a cattle population of over 100,000, the facility produces 150 million pounds of beef per year, making it the largest beef producer on the West Coast of the United States.
Iron Ore Mine Tailings Pond
46.407676°,-87.530954° - Maxar Technologies
Tailings are the waste and by-products generated by mining operations. The tailings seen here were pumped into the Gribbens Basin, next to the Empire and Tilden Iron Ore Mines in Negaunee, Michigan, USA. Once the materials are pumped into the pond, they are mixed with water to create a sloppy form of mud known as slurry. The slurry is then pumped through magnetic separation chambers to extract usable ore and increase the mine’s total output. For a sense of scale, this Overview shows approximately 2.5 square kilometers (1 square mile) of the basin.
Uummannaq Fjord
70.676582°,-52.097400° - Maxar Technologies
Ice melt in the Uummannaq Fjord in Greenland is seen in this Overview. The edges of Greenland’s ice sheet melt every summer; however, because the sheet is steepest at the edge, and flatter towards the middle, the warming of summer exposes a larger area of ice to melting every year. This particular Fjord is the second largest in eastern Greenland behind the Kangertittivaq Fjord.
Nusa Penida
-8.752065°,115.473136° - Maxar Technologies
Two secluded beaches are seen on the island of Nusa Penida, located off the southeastern coast of Bali. The island has come to be the unofficial bird sanctuary for numbers of endangered Balinese and Indonesian bird species, most notably the Bali Starlin.
Sheep's Meadow
40.770784°,-73.977618° - Maxar Technologies
Sheep Meadow covers 15 acres on the west side of Central Park in New York. As seen in this Overview, the meadow often draw massive crowds of sunbathers looking for a place to lay out, and can attract up to over 30,000 visitors a day in the summer months.
Glacier melt
63.806677°,-17.543741° - Maxar Technologies
Hundreds of tiny streams caused by glacier melt, merge together in the southern region of Iceland to form an outlet into the North Atlantic Ocean. Rising lava, steam vents, or newly opened hot springs can all cause this rapid ice melt, leading to a sizable release of water that picks up sediment as it flows down from the glaciers.
Villarrica
-39.423184°,-71.939279° - Maxar Technologies
Villarrica, a volcano in the Chilean Central Valley, is one of the few volcanoes in the world with a lava lake in its crater. Rising 2,860 m (9,380 ft), Villarrica covers an area of 400 square kilometers. The volcano’s most recent serious eruption was in 2015, which caused the evacuation of thousands of people in nearby communities.
Caiji Co
31.205285°,85.434498° - Maxar Technologies
Pictured here is Caiji Co, a body of water in the Ngari Prefecture of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. At one point Ngari was the heart of the ancient kingdom of Guge, and later along with Ü and Tsang, composed Ü-Tsang, one of the traditional provinces of Tibet.
L.F. Wade International Airport (BDA)
32.368277°,-64.685628° - Maxar Technologies
L.F. Wade International Airport is the only airport in the British overseas territory of Bermuda. Due to the island's substantial distance from the nearest land mass, the airport only handles jets and long-range turboprops. The facility accommodates roughly one million passengers every year.
Evaporation ponds
40.792726°,-112.592892° - Maxar Technologies
Evaporation ponds in the Great Salt Lake, Utah are pictured in this Overview. The Great Salt Lake contributes an estimated $1.3 billion annually to Utah’s economy, including $1.1 billion from industry, which is mostly due to mineral extraction. Minerals extracted from the lake include sodium chloride, potassium sulfate, and magnesium-chloride.
Alta Wind Energy Center
35.021111°,-118.320556° - Maxar Technologies
Located in the Tehachapi Mountains of California, the Alta Wind Energy Center is the largest wind farm in the US, and third largest onshore farm in the world. The facility plans to reduce carbon dioxide emission by more then 5.2 million metric tons over the next 25 years, which is roughly the same as eliminating 446,000 cars off the road.
Qinghai Lake
37.000945°,99.892228° - Maxar Technologies
The shores of Qinghai Lake in China are captured in this Overview. The lake is the largest in the country, covering 1,667 square miles (4317 square km), which is nearly one and a half times the size of the state of Rhode Island.
Warracknabeal
-36.255902°,142.395859° - Nearmap
Warracknabeal is a town located in the Australian state of Victoria, roughly 205 miles north-west of Melbourne. The small town of 2,745 people has a yearly Easter tradition called the “Y-Fest” that features activities such as a street parade, golf tournament, and waterski spectacular.
Superkilen
55.699733°,12.541789° - Maxar Technologies
Superkilen is a public park in the Nørrebro district of the city. The colorful space aims to celebrate global diversity, designed as a universal exposition with ideas and artifacts gathered from over 50 countries around the world.
Fruit orchards
37.714546°,-6.532834° - Maxar Technologies
Fruit trees swirl on the hills of Huelva, Spain. The climate here is ideal for this growth with an average temperature of 17.8° C (64° F) and a relative humidity between 60% and 80%.
Mexico City
19.407452°,-99.027845° - Maxar Technologies
With a population of 21.2 million people, Greater Mexico City is second-largest metropolitan area in the Western Hemisphere. The Nezahualcoyotl District is seen here. By the 1990s Mexico City had become infamous as one of the world's most polluted cities, but has improved the air quality of the city drastically since to be roughly comparable to Los Angeles.
The Kufra Basin
24.129228°,23.218823° - Maxar Technologies
The Kufra Basin in the Sahara Desert of Libya is one of the most heavily irrigated oases in the world. The Libyan government enacted a plan in the 1970’s to enable agricultural cultivation in the desert by extracting water from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, a non-renewable source of fossil water located beneath the surface. Because the area receives only one inch of rain per year, the aquifer is now nearly dried up.
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