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Desert Shores Community
36.210784°,-115.267040° - Vantor
The Desert Shores Community in Las Vegas, Nevada contains 3,351 units and four man-made lakes.
Mussel nurseries
42.576312°,-8.859047° - Vantor
Mussel cultivation in the Ría de Arousa saline estuary off the coast of Galicia, Spain is the highest in the world. Floating rafts contain the nurseries where the mollusks grow on ropes until they are large enough to harvest. Mussel production has thrived here because there is an usually high concentration of phytoplankton in the water, providing the mussels with a protein-rich diet.
Coal trains
42.082523°,-102.890046° - Vantor
Coal trains - some full, others empty - idle in a railyard next to a pivot irrigation circle in Alliance, Nebraska, USA. The city is located in the Powder River Basin - one of the world’s largest coal-mining areas - and serves as a stopping point for trains en route to power plants in the Midwest and Southern parts of the country.
The Pentagon
38.870989°,-77.055961° - Vantor
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia, USA. The building has five sides, five floors above ground, and five ring corridors on each floor that have a combined length of 17.5 miles.
Launch Pad 39A
28.607923°,-80.603836° - Vantor
Today marks the 46th anniversary of the moon landing by NASA's Apollo 11. A Saturn V rocket launched the mission from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida, USA on July 16th, 1969. That specific site is scene here. After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July 19. The next day, at 10:56 p.m., Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the Lunar Module onto the moon’s surface and famously remarked “that’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Altocumulus clouds
37.300000°,62.350000° - Vantor
Altocumulus clouds - characterized by their patchy dispersal and elevation above 6,500 feet - pass over Yolöten, Turkmenistan. The town is located on the Murgab River and has a population of 37,000.
Gibraltar International Airport (GIB)
36.151111°,-5.349722° - Vantor
The Overview captures the Gibraltar International Airport, serving the British overseas territory and neighboring areas of southern Spain. Winston Churchill Avenue - the road to the border with Spain - intersects the airport runway and has to be closed every time a plane lands or departs.
Beirut
33.886944°,35.513056° - Vantor
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. Located at the midpoint of the country’s Mediterranean coast, the area serves as the country’s largest seaport. Settlement in this area is believed to date back more than 5,000 years, with recent excavations in the downtown area unearthing layers from Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader and Ottoman civilizations.
Channel Tunnel
50.931745°,1.824168° - Vantor
Trucks sit by the entrance of the Channel Tunnel in Calais, France. in an effort to get to Britain - 31.4 miles away via the underwater passage. This is the latest incident in an ongoing crisis in Europe where an estimated 100,000 migrants have entered the continent to flee violence and poverty in neighboring regions.
Fallon Range Training Complex
39.878094°,-118.398102° - Vantor
The Fallon Range Training Complex is a United States Navy military area that spans 84,000 acres in the Dixie Valley of Nevada, USA. The complex primarily hosts air-to-air and air-to-ground training exercises. Here we see an installation of metal containers that are used for covert operations training as well as instrument recognition and calibration for spy planes and satellites.
Mischief Reef
9.916667°,115.533333° - Vantor
The New York Times published a fascinating piece this morning on Chinese island building in the South China Sea. Dredgers - the boats you see here around "Mischief Reef" - pump sediment from the ocean up into floating pipes, and deposit the material onto the reef to increase land area. This enables the large-scale construction projects currently underway on the newly formed islands. See the full story .
Sandstone formations
34.890479°,-111.754571° - Vantor
Sedona, Arizona is encircled by an array of vibrant, red sandstone formations that glow throughout the day and with the setting sun. The Overview here shows the formations around Wilson Mountain, which are visible from the North side of the town.
Jodhpur
26.297840°,73.018420° - Vantor
Jodhpur, India, is home to more than one million residents, making it the second largest city in the state of Rajasthan. Jodhpur is often referred to as the “Blue City” due to the vivid, painted houses that can be seen throughout its urban area.
Desert Breath
27.380339°,33.632154° - Vantor
Desert Breath” - located in the Egyptian desert near Hurghada on the Red Sea - is a double-spiral art piece. Because the 89 protruding cones that make up one spiral are constructed from the sand that was dug to create the 89 depressed cones of the other spiral, in due time, with erosion, the area of approximately one million square feet will revert back to its original state.
Temporary Shelters in Tara Goan Park
27.720216°,85.352543° - Vantor
As many of you know, a powerful earthquake struck the country of Nepal this past Saturday. Due to tremendous damage and fear of aftershocks, many people have moved to open spaces outdoors. Satellite images taken in recent days over the city of Kathmandu show a number of these shelters appearing across the city - like the ones seen in this Overview of Tara Goan Park. To donate to Red Cross relief efforts, click . Our thoughts are with the people of Nepal during this difficult time.
Calbuco Volcano eruption
-41.222173°,-72.567814° - Vantor
The Calbuco Volcano in southern Chile is spewing ash again today, following two massive eruptions last week. Chilean authorities stated that the initial eruptions released approximately 210 million cubic meters of ash into the air. Striking infrared satellite images taken in recent days show the town of Ensenada, located at the based on the volcano, covered in a thick layer of gray dust.
Meridian, California
38.925233°,-121.714577° - Vantor
Agricultural development in Meridian, California, is partitioned by irrigation canals that originate at the Sacramento River. On average, 9.6 million acres of cropland across the state are irrigated with 11 trillion gallons of water every year. As of 2014, farmers in California cultivated approximately half of the United State’s fruits, vegetables, and nuts.
Thomson Correctional Center
41.972222°,-90.108333° - Vantor
Thomson Correctional Center is maximum security prison located in Thomson, Illinois, USA. The facility has a capacity of 1,600 prisoners that are held within eight cellhouses, surrounded by a 15-foot, 7000 volt electric fence and an additional 12-foot fence covered with razor wire.
Jiulongzhen
31.887639°,121.646788° - Vantor
Individual homes and agricultural lots stretch across the landscape of Jiulongzhen in the Anhui Province of China.
Lake Hood Seaplane Base
61.181667°,-149.966389° - Vantor
The Lake Hood Seaplane Base, captured here during the frozen-over winter, is located in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Handling an average of 190 flights per day, the facility is the world's busiest airport for seaplanes.
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