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Tulip Fields
52.276356°,4.557081° - Maxar Technologies
Lines of colorful tulips in Lisse, Netherlands to honor the birthday of my favorite artist, Piet Mondrian! The Netherlands, where Mondrian was born on this day in 1872, produces 4.3 billion tulip bulbs every year. Mondrian is most well known for his paintings with straight black lines and blocks of the three primary colors.
Dendritic drainage systems
30.327274°,48.829255° - Maxar Technologies
A dendritic drainage pattern is seen around the Shadegan Lagoon by Musa Bay in Iran. Dendritic literally means branched, as in resembling the pattern of a tree. This shape develops when streams move across relatively flat and uniform rock or over a surface that resists erosion.
Carrara Marble
44.100989°,10.131797° - Maxar Technologies
Marble quarriers are visible in Carrara, Italy. The blue-grey marble that is extracted here is widely used in sculpture like Michelangelo’s David and in building decor like that of The Pantheon. With more than 650 active or abandoned quarry sites, more marble has been extracted here than any other place on earth. /// Created by @dailyoverview, source imagery: @maxartechnologies
Industrial buildings
33.740293°,-118.031207° - Maxar Technologies
Industrial buildings cover approximately one square mile in Westminster, a city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of California, USA. The complex includes numerous warehouses, a roller skating rink, and multiple engineering facilities.
Cloverleaf interchange
25.174690°,51.326337° - Maxar Technologies
A cloverleaf interchange is constructed on the outskirts of Doha, Qatar. The objective of a cloverleaf is to allow two highways to cross without the need to stop traffic.
Denver International Airport
39.861667°,-104.673056° - Maxar Technologies
Denver International Airport in Colorado covers more than 33,000 acres (52 square miles), making it is the largest airport in the United States by total land area. The facility is the 18th-busiest airport in the world and the 6th busiest in the United States by passenger traffic with more than 54 million passengers.
Grand Canyon
36.100000°,-112.100000° - Maxar Technologies
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the state of Arizona in the United States. The geological wonder is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide, and attains a depth of 6,093 feet (1,857 meters) at it’s deepest point. Recent studies suggest that the river established its course through the area roughly 5 or 6 million years ago and has continuously expanded the size of the canyon and exposed nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history since then.
Fucino Plain
42.004370°,13.529060° - Maxar Technologies
The plain of Fucino in the Abruzzo region of Italy is commonly recognized for the quality of the vegetables that are grown here - in particular the potatoes, carrots, and radishes. What is now an entire plain filled with farms was once Fucine Lake, the third largest lake in Italy. The lake was drained in 1877 to make agricultural development possible here, an area that is now responsible for roughly 25% of the agricultural production in the region.
Selkirk Yard
42.554722°,-73.837222° - Maxar Technologies
Selkirk Yard is a freight railroad yard located eight miles south of Albany, New York that serves as a gateway to points east of the Hudson River, including New York City. Using computerized controls, the yard can process more than 3,200 cars per day.
Port Everglades
26.087166°,-80.119158° - Maxar Technologies
Massive cruise ships are anchored at Port Everglades in Broward County, Florida, United States. The facility is the third busiest cruise port in the world with 3.6 million passengers passing through each year. In total, the worldwide cruising industry accounts for $29.4 billion USD with more than 19 million passengers traveling each year.
Songjeong Dong
35.093187°,128.849009° - Maxar Technologies
The colorful roofs of Songjeong-dong - an industrial district in Busan, South Korea - are seen in this Overview. The striking colors that you see here result from the use of aluminum roofing, which is used for its low cost and longevity.
Discovery Bay
37.908611°,-121.600278° - Maxar Technologies
Discovery Bay is a waterfront community built on a network of man-made dikes in Contra Costa County, California, USA. Development of the area began in 1964 is now home to roughly 13,352 residents. As seen in this Overview, many residents have private docks with boat access to the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta.
Miami Beach
25.783742°,-80.128644° - Maxar Technologies
Umbrellas and beachgoers dot the sands of Miami Beach, Florida, USA. This area is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country, attracting nearly 15 million visitors each year. The #summer season officially starts this weekend with Memorial Day here in the United States, but I wish everyone a few days of rest and adventure wherever you are around the world!
Rodewald
52.665833°,9.482222° - Maxar Technologies
Fields surround the residential area of Rodewald, Germany. The agricultural village was first mentioned in historical records from the early 13th Century and is now home to 2,549 people.
Spaghetti Junction
35.966384°,-83.929399° - Maxar Technologies
A highway interchange connect Interstates 40 and 275 outside of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Because of its intertwined construction, a structure like this is commonly called a “spaghetti junction.”
Neves-Corvo Mine
37.573056°,-7.970833° - Maxar Technologies
Waste ponds are seen at the Neves-Corvo Mine in the Castro Verde Municipality in Portugal. Zinc and copper and the primary resources extracted from the mine and the byproducts of that extraction is sent to these basins three kilometers away. Typically, once waste materials are pumped into a tailings 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.
Somalia Coast
5.000000°,48.266667° - Maxar Technologies
Waves roll into the shores of Somalia, by the village of El Hur. Located on the Horn of Africa, Somalia has the longest coastline on the mainland continent, stretching for more than 3,000 kilometers (1880 miles).
Malé
4.173715°,73.509263° - Maxar Technologies
Malé is the capital and most populous city in the Republic of Maldives. With more than 47,000 residents per square kilometer (0.39 square miles), the heavily urbanized city constitutes the fifth most densely-populated island in the world. Malé and the other islands of the Maldives are located one meter (3 feet) above sea level.
Al Falah Housing Project
24.445187°,54.719998° - Maxar Technologies
The Al Falah Housing Project is located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The development covers 12.5 million square meters with 4,857 villas as well as mosques, schools, a shopping mall, and a hospital.
Istanbul Shipyard
40.837223°,29.276616° - Maxar Technologies
The Istanbul Shipyard offers facilities to build or repair fourteen large sea-faring vessels simultaneously. The complex contains cranes that have a lifting capacity of 550 tons as well as the largest drydock in Turkey - stretching more than one thousand feet (310 meters).
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