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Residential houses
39.671868°,-74.238280° - Maxar Technologies
Residential houses are built along canals in Manahawkin, New Jersey, USA. The town’s name is believed to have come from a Lenape word meaning "fertile land sloping into the water.”
Xiluodu Dam
28.259850°,103.649500° - Maxar Technologies
Water from the Jinsha River surges through the Xiluodu Dam near Xiluodu, China. Arch dams like this one are designed so that the force of the contained water presses against the arch, compressing and strengthening the structure by pushing it into its foundation. At 937 feet (286 meters), the dam in Xiluodu is the fourth tallest in the world and is primarily used for hydroelectric power generation.
Brock Reservoir
32.716000°,-115.036000° - Maxar Technologies
The Brock Reservoir - located near Gordons Well, California, USA - is used to supply water to nearby farmers via the All-American Canal. Compared to other reservoirs, Brock’s capacity is relatively small with storage for only 2,600 million US gallons. Since 2013, reservoirs across the state of California has experienced a significant reduction in water levels, with more than 80% of land experiencing severe to exceptional drought.
Highway interchange
29.975280°,-90.319194° - Maxar Technologies
A highway interchange connects Interstate 310 and U.S Route 61 outside of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Because the roadways in this area were built on top of environmentally sensitive wetlands, construction platforms were mounted on top of concrete piles to minimize disruption with the terrain below.
Port of Copenhagen
55.671800°,12.581700° - Maxar Technologies
The Port of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark has one of the largest passenger terminals in the Baltic Sea, handling more than 1.6 million passengers annually. A cruise ship with an approximate length of 1000 feet (305 meters) is seen at one of its docks. The facility also contains one of the region’s busiest cargo terminals, which moves more than 18 million tonnes of cargo each year.
Brighton Pier
50.816388°,-0.137253° - Maxar Technologies
Brighton Pier, also known as Palace Pier, is constructed off the coast of the English city of Brighton. Extending 1,719 feet (524 meters) into the English Channel, the structure contains numerous restaurants, rides, and roller coasters.
Gobustan National Park
40.164582°,49.298363° - Maxar Technologies
The landscape of Gobustan National Park in Azerbaijan is slivered by hundreds of ravines - narrow canyons that are created by flowing water over a long period of time. This site is best known for a series of elaborate rock engravings that were created here between 5,000 and 40,000 years ago.
Incheon Bridge
37.414274°,126.572495° - Maxar Technologies
Incheon Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that stretches 21.4 kilometers (13.3 miles) from Yeongjong Island to the mainland of Incheon in South Korea. The structure’s central tower (what makes the bridge “cable-stayed”) was the most challenging part to construct with a height of 230.5 meters (756.2 ft) and a vertical clearance of 74 meters (243 ft). The entire project cost more than two billion dollars (three billion Korean won) to complete.
European migrant crisis
46.181700°,20.010900° - Maxar Technologies
As many of you know, Europe is currently being overwhelmed by a flood of migrants and refugees from the Middle East, many of whom are fleeing the devastation in Syria. Last week, the country of Hungary sealed its borders, forcing the travelers to go elsewhere. On September 13th, two days before the borders were closed, huge numbers of refugees came together in the Hungarian town of Röszke near the border with Serbia. This Overview shows that gathering as hundreds of migrants set up temporary shelter with tents and buses.
Thessaloniki
40.642069°,22.946651° - Maxar Technologies
With a population of nearly 790,000 residents in its urban area, Thessaloniki is the second largest city in Greece after Athens. Following a massive fire in 1917 that destroyed much of the city, large sections of the downtown area were reconstructed according to a European-style urban plan that we see on the right in this Overview.
Mount Shasta
41.409167°,-122.195000° - Maxar Technologies
Mount Shasta is a potentially active volcano located in Siskiyou County, California, USA. At 14,179 feet, Mount Shasta is not connected to any nearby mountain and stands nearly 10,000 ft above the surrounding terrain.
New Century Global Center
30.572222°,104.060833° - Maxar Technologies
This morning I’ll fly to Chengdu, China. The city is home to the recently constructed New Century Global Center - a multipurpose facility that contains numerous shopping malls, an IMAX cinema, a “mediterranean village," a pirate ship, a skating rink, and a 500x130 foot screen that displays artificial sunrises and sunsets. The structure contains the largest amount of floor space for a single building with approximately 18 million square feet.
Arlit Uranium Mine
18.760752°,7.318642° - Maxar Technologies
The Arlit Uranium mine is located in Arlit, Niger. French nuclear power generation as well as the French nuclear weapons program are dependent on the uranium that is extracted from the mine - more than 3400 tonnes per year. This image was featured in our story "Rethinking Nuclear Power."Read the full story →
Nishinoshima
27.246944°,140.874444° - Maxar Technologies
Nishinoshima is a volcanic island located 940 kilometers south of Tokyo, Japan. Starting in November 2013, the volcano began to erupt and continued to do so until August 2015. Over the course of the eruption, the area of the island grew in size from .056 square kilometers to 2.3 square kilometers. This Juxtapose shows the island one year before the eruption began and the same location after seven months of activity.
Arrowhead and Kauffman Stadiums
39.051389°,-94.480556° - Maxar Technologies
Arrowhead and Kauffman Stadiums in Kansas City, Missouri, are home to the Kansas City Chiefs (American football) and Kansas City Royals (baseball), respectively. Together, the two stadiums make up the Harry S. Truman Sports Complex and have a combined seating capacity of more than 114,000.
The Green Cathedral
52.323157°,5.318778° - Maxar Technologies
Look closely at this Overview and you'll see “The Green Cathedral” - an artistic planting of 178 Lombardy poplar trees near Almere, Netherlands. The “Cathedral” is 50 m (490 ft) long and 75 m (246 ft) wide, which mimics the exact size and shape of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Reims, France. The artist, Marinus Boezem, also made a clearing in a nearby beech forest of the same shape to suggest that as the poplars decline, beech trees will fill the empty space to symbolize a cycle of growth and decline.
Cattle feedlot
34.715428°,-102.507400° - Maxar Technologies
Cattle are visible at a feedlot in Summerfield, Texas, USA. Once the animals reach a weight of 650 pounds, they are moved to these facilities and placed on a strict diet of specialized animal feed. Over the next three to four months, the cows gain up to 400 more pounds before they are shipped off to slaughter. The lagoon seen at the top of this feedlot gets is glowing color from a high concentration of manure and chemicals.
Schönbrunn Palace
48.184865°,16.312240° - Maxar Technologies
Schönbrunn Palace is a 1,441 room complex that sits upon 435 acres of spectacular gardens in Vienna, Austria. It was here that Mozart gave his first concert to the royal family when he was only six years old.
Oil Field Service Ships
5.263871°,115.257724° - Maxar Technologies
Oil field service ships anchor offshore of Labuan, a territory of Malaysia that is located off the coast of Borneo. In addition to being an offshore financial center, Labuan is a support hub for deepwater oil and gas activities in the region. The economy of Labuan is heavily dependent on its fossil fuel resources, which account for 65% of its exports.
Port of Rotterdam
51.950990°,4.065449° - Maxar Technologies
Two container ships are docked at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. From 1962 until 2002 it was the world’s busiest port, but was overtaken first by the the port in Singapore and later by the facility in Shanghai, China. Container ships such as these can weigh up to 300,000 tons and extend up to 1,200 feet (366 meters).
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