Gallery: Huge Flock of Minisatellites Aims to Photograph the Entire Earth Every Day
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San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. July 23, 2014. The southernmost portion of the San Francisco Bay contains a number of salt ponds and levee trails. Cutting through several nature reserves, the Dumbarton bridge connects East Palo Alto and Fremont. Facebook’s campus can be seen in the lower left.
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Três Marias Reservoir, Minas Gerais, Brazil. July 31, 2014. The Represa Três Marias, the result of damming the São Francisco river, is one of the largest reservoirs in Brazil. In 2014, Minas Gerais experienced one of the worst droughts of the last 50 years. The lower water level can be seen by using the compare tool.
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Bohai Sea Aquaculture, China. August 12, 2014. Rectangular ponds along the coast of China’s Bohai Sea indicate the presence of aquaculture. Species farmed in the area include shrimp, sea cucumber, and abalone. The inland landscape is also intensively farmed, featuring small villages surrounded by fields.
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. October 5, 2014. While the Mississippi River is the lifeblood of New Orleans—providing access to the interior of North America from the Gulf of Mexico—it is also a threat. A system of levees along the river protects the center of the city from flooding and hurricane storm surges.
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Irrigated Fields, Arizona, USA. August 16, 2014. Dark green fields stand out against the pale desert floor in Pinal County, Arizona. The region’s farms rely on irrigation, since they receive less than 10 inches of rain a year. Irrigation water comes from two main sources: the Colorado River and aquifers.
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Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. August 5, 2014. Here we can see the center of Arkhangelsk, a Russian city at the top of the Northern Dvina River delta, which flows into the nearby White Sea.
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Castaic Reservoir, California, USA. August 5, 2014. The shoreline of Castaic Lake, a reservoir northwest of Los Angeles, hints at the extent of California’s ongoing drought. As of August 5, 2014, the reservoir was only 46 percent full, compared to the historical average of 55 percent.
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Desertification Control Project, Ningxia, China. July 14, 2014. Agricultural lands abut the Yellow River, just outside of Touzha in Pingluo County, China. This is part of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in Northwestern China, where a desertification control project is under way to preserve agricultural lands.
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Airport, Beijing, China. July 25, 2014. Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3 was built for the 2008 Olympic Games, and is now the second largest airport terminal in the world. The airport itself is an exclave of the Chaoyang District, but the area surrounding it is the suburban Shunyi district.
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Lake Diefenbaker, Saskatchewan, Canada. September 1, 2014. Filled in 1967, Lake Diefenbaker is a 140-mile-long reservoir along the South Saskatchewan and Qu’Appelle Rivers. Diefenbaker is renowned for harboring extremely large fish: the world record rainbow trout (48 lbs) and burbot (25 lbs) were both caught in the lake.
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Adeii Eechii Cliffs, Arizona, USA. September 1, 2014. The prominent Adeii Eechii Cliffs form the southwestern boundary of the Moenkopi Plateau. Strong winds from the southwest dominate during the dry season, sculpting sand into light-colored dunes.
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Onega River Delta, Russia. July 19, 2014. On July 19, 2014 a Planet Labs satellite captured this image of exposed mud flats along the southeastern shore of Russia’s Onega Bay.
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Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA, August 16, 2014. The red, sediment-filled Colorado River contrasts with blue-green Havasu Creek in Grand Canyon National Park. The Colorado River is almost always red in spring and summer, since it collects silt from a huge watershed. Short tributaries usually run clear.
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. July 24, 2014. This coastline on Lake Ontario stretches from the western side of St. Catharines, the largest city in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada. The Queen Elizabeth Way runs right by the water, heading to Toronto.
