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Sand patterns in Salta
-22.821924°,-65.030245° - Maxar Technologies
Sand patterns are seen here in Salta, Argentina. Salta is situated 3780 feet above sea level in the northwest part of the country. The palette of colors in the sand is caused for a variety of reasons. The red occurs from large amounts of iron in the sand that have broken down, and stained the sand a rust color. The black presumably occurs following volcanic activity. The white seen in this Overview is snow covering the tops of the mountains.
Cuajone Mine
-17.040645°,-70.711594° - Maxar Technologies
The Cuajone Mine is located near the district of Torata, in the southern range of the Peruvian Andes. The mine is best known for its copper deposits, but other materials such as silver, zinc, and molybdenum have been extracted from it as well. Operations began in 1970, and by 2009 accounted for 16% of the country's copper production.
Woodford Bay
-33.829873°,151.173957° - Nearmap
Sailboats are moored in Woodford Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Thousands of boats like the ones seen here are stationed in the channels and around the islands in the greater Sydney area. Wherever you are in the world, we hope you have a peaceful, fantastic weekend!
Stavrapol Krai
45.465429°,43.612853° - Planet
Agricultural development in Stavrapol Krai, Russia is made possible with water that travels down from the Caucasus Mountains. The region’s temperate climate supports grape and grain crops.
Piraeus Marina
37.937737°,23.645820° - Maxar Technologies
The Piraeus Marina is located on the Bay of Zea and is surrounding by gridded streets in the Greek city of Piraeus. The city was developed in the early 5th century BC, when it was selected to serve as the port destination of classical Athens. Now, the city contains the second largest passenger port in the world, which services about 20 million passengers every year.
Larsen C Ice Shelf Crack
68.766667°,-60.933333° - NASA
On July 12, 2017 it was reported that an iceberg — roughly twice the size of Luxembourg — separated from the Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica. This photograph from January shows a massive fracture in the ice that measured more than 100 feet wide and over 100 miles long at the time. It is estimated that this chunk weighs roughly one trillion tons and the break could lead to a rise in global sea levels by roughly four inches (10 centimeters).
Port of Long Beach
33.754185°,-118.216458° - Nearmap
Shipping containers are loaded into a massive cargo ship (1200+ feet) at the Port of Long Beach — the second-busiest container port in the United States. The seaport generates approximately $100 billion in trade, employs more than 316,000 people, and along with the Port of Los Angeles to which it is connected, serves as the single largest source of air pollution in the metropolitan LA area.
Larung Gar
32.152575°,100.467637° - Maxar Technologies
Hundreds of dwellings - all painted in a vibrant red color - make up Larung Gar, the world’s largest Buddhist institute. The settlement is located in a remote valley in Tibet and contains a population that has grown to approximately 20,000 people since its founding in 1980. In recent years, the Chinese government has started to systemically demolish homes and force thousands of occupants out of Larung Gar, claiming the settlement is too crowded and unsafe. They have also closed off the area to all foreigners. Many Tibetans fear the erosion of their language, traditions, and ways of worship in the midst of these incursions by the Chinese government.
Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK)
40.078856°,116.582160° - Maxar Technologies
Beijing Capital International Airport is the second busiest airport in the world, handling more than 90 million passengers every year. The dragon-like layout of the terminals is meant to celebrate the thrill and poetry of flight, while the orange roof evokes the vibrant coloration of the city’s famed Forbidden City.
Wrigley Field
41.948387°,-87.655326° - Maxar
Wrigley Field is home to the Chicago Cubs baseball team and is the second-oldest active major league ballpark (after Fenway Park in Boston) with its first game played in 1916. "The Friendly Confines" are known for its ivy-covered brick outfield wall and was the last major league ballpark to have lights installed for night games in 1988.
Eastern State Penitentiary
39.968390°,-75.172652° - Nearmap
The haunted house at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is consistently ranked among the scariest Halloween attractions in the United States. The prison operated from 1829 until 1971 and housed notorious criminals like the gangster Al Capone. The facility was also the first of its kind to be constructed in a “wagon-wheel” layout with seven wings of cellblocks radiating from a central hub. Hope everyone has a safe and scary Halloween!
Car terminal
37.908562°,-122.367247° - Nearmap
Cars are unloaded and parked at an automobile terminal in Richmond, California, USA. In 2015, 17.5 million cars and light trucks were sold in the United States, raising the total number of registered vehicles in the country to roughly 253 million.
Port Newark
40.681667°,-74.150556° - Nearmap
Shipping containers are stacked at the Port Newark Container Terminal in Newark, New Jersey, USA. The massive facility handles over 600,000 shipping containers every year and has begun expansion projects that will increase annual capacity to 1.1 million containers by 2030.
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
33.636667°,-84.428056° - Maxar Technologies
Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, USA is the busiest airport in the world by total passengers and number of flights. In 2015, ATL accommodated more than 101 million passengers and 882,000 flights. Dozens of planes departing and arriving at concourses A-D are seen in this Overview.
Halong Bay
20.900000°,107.200000° - Maxar Technologies
Hạ Long Bay, located in the Quảng Ninh Province of Vietnam, is a stunningly beautiful destination. Here, towering limestone pillars and tiny islands topped by a rich, green forest rise from the beautiful waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. Halong translates as 'where the dragon descends into the sea' and local legend suggests that this seascape was created when a great mountain dragon charged towards the coast, its flailing tail gouging out the valleys and crevasses in its path.
Port of Tanjung Priok
-6.104000°,106.886500° - Maxar Technologies
Dozens of massive cargo ships and tankers - some weighing up to 300,000 tons - are anchored outside the Port of Tanjung Priok in Jakarta, Indonesia. The facility is the country's busiest and most advanced seaport, handling more than 50% of Indonesia's trans-shipment cargo. The port is also among the least efficient in all of Southeast Asia, due to slow customs handling and limited docking capacity.
Whakaari / White Island
-37.516667°,177.183333° - Maxar Technologies
Whakaari, also known as White Island, is an active stratovolcano, situated 48 km (30 mi) from the North Island of New Zealand in the Bay of Plenty. Whakaari is New Zealand’s most active volcano, and has been built up by continuous eruptions over the past 150,000 years. The island is approximately 2 km (1.2 mi) in diameter and rises to a height of 321 m (1,053 ft) above sea level.
Burning Man
40.786944°,-119.204444° - Maxar Technologies
Over the next few days, thousands of people from around the world will head to the desert in Nevada, USA to construct Black Rock City. Laid out in a grid plan with radiating avenues named after the numbers on a clock, the city serves as home to roughly 60,000 people for Burning Man, an annual week-long event. Burning Man is described as an experiment in community, art, self-expression, and radical self-reliance. Additionally residents in Black Rock City practice one of the event's key principles of ‘Leave No Trace’ – meaning significant efforts are taken to make sure as the city is disassembled in the days following the festival, the desert returns to its original state.
Karlsruhe, Germany
49.009167°,8.403889° - Maxar Technologies
The city of Karlsruhe, Germany was planned with a palace tower at its center, surrounded by 32 radiating streets. Because the design resembled the ribs of a folding fan, the city is sometimes called the “fan city” or “Fächerstadt." Additionally, this city's urban plan gave rise to the geometry concept of “Karlsruhe Metric” which refers to a measure of distance that assumes travel is only possible along radial streets and along circular avenues around the center.
Washington, D.C,
38.890556°,-77.020278° - Maxar Technologies
Washington, D.C.'s L'Enfant Plan was developed in 1791 by Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant for George Washington, the first President of the United States. L’Enfant designed a compass-aligned grid for the city’s streets, with intersecting diagonal avenues that were later named after the states of the union. The diagonal avenues also intersect with the north-south and east-west streets at circles and rectangular plazas in order to create more open, green spaces. Lastly, L'Enfant laid out a 400 foot-wide (122 meter) garden-lined “grand avenue” - what is now know as the National Mall – that connects the US Capitol Building, the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial (the latter two are visible at right in this Overview).
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