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Desert Shores Community
The Desert Shores Community in Las Vegas, Nevada contains 3,351 units and four man-made lakes.
36.210784°,-115.267040°
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Mussel nurseries
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.
42.576312°,-8.859047°
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Coal trains
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.
42.082523°,-102.890046°
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Our Lady of Almudena Cemetery
Our Lady of Almudena Cemetery in Madrid, Spain is one of the largest cemeteries in the world. The number of gravesites - estimated at five million - is greater than the population of Madrid itself.
40.419444°,-3.640556°
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The Pentagon
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.
38.870989°,-77.055961°
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Launch Pad 39A
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.”
28.607923°,-80.603836°
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Altocumulus clouds
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.
37.300000°,62.350000°
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Gibraltar International Airport (GIB)
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.
36.151111°,-5.349722°
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Channel Tunnel
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.
50.931745°,1.824168°
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Fallon Range Training Complex
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.
39.878094°,-118.398102°
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Mischief Reef
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 .
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Guadalajara
Guadalajara is the fourth most populous city in Mexico with a population of nearly 1.5 million. It is also one of the country’s cultural centers, considered by many to be the home of mariachi music.
20.687580°,-103.307078°
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Sandstone formations
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.
34.890479°,-111.754571°
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Desert Breath
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.
27.380339°,33.632154°
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New Century Global Center
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.
30.572222°,104.060833°
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Mount Shasta
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.
41.409167°,-122.195000°
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Thessaloniki
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.
40.642069°,22.946651°
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Port Hercules
Port Hercules, the only deep-water port in Monaco, provides anchorage for up to 700 vessels. Monaco has an area of 0.78 square miles and a population of 36,371, making it the second smallest and the most densely populated country in the world.
43.735056°,7.425139°
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Shanghai at night
Shanghai, China - seen here at night from the International Space Station - is the largest city in China with a population of more than 24 million people. Image courtesy of Nasa.
31.230416°,121.473701°
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European migrant crisis
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.
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