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Mendoza, Argentina Road Grid
Roads create a grid-like pattern on the landscape in a remote section of Argentina’s Mendoza Province. This area has an arid climate and receives anywhere from 4 to 20 inches (100-500 mm) of precipitation per year. These conditions cause much of the soil to be dry and reddish, as shown in this Overview.
-37.035056°,-69.451639°
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of more than 1.5 million. The city played a pivotal role during the American Revolution, when it provided a setting for the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
39.945667°,-75.164889°
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Hardy Reef - Great Barrier Reef
This Overview captures a small segment of the Great Barrier Reef, located off the coast of Queensland, in northeastern Australia. Composed of more than 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands, the reef system is Earth's largest structure made up of living things. The Great Barrier Reef stretches for more than 1,400 miles (2,300 km) and covers an area of roughly 130,000 square miles (344,400 sq. km).
-18.286111°,147.700000°
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Port of Vancouver
The Roberts Bank Superport is a shipping facility in the Port of Vancouver, just offshore the city of Delta in British Columbia, Canada. It is home to the single busiest coal export terminal in North America, which typically ships more than 20 million tons of export coal a year. Currently, there are plans to expand the facility and add a new three-berth container terminal, which would provide an additional 2.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units of container capacity.
49.017889°,-123.159583°
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Palm Springs International Airport (PSP)
A single airplane waits at the international terminal of Palm Springs International Airport in Palm Springs, California. The airport is highly seasonal, operating a majority of its flights in the winter, and it has been called one of America's most “stress-free" airports. In 2017, it handled slightly more than 2.1 million passengers across 12 airlines.
33.829722°,-116.506667°
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Plaça de Tetuan - Barcelona
Plaça de Tetuan is a major square located in the Eixample District of Barcelona, Spain. This area is characterized by its strict grid pattern, octagonal intersections, and apartments with communal courtyards. At the square’s center is a monument of Dr. Bartomeu Robert Yarzábal, who served briefly as Mayor of Barcelona at the turn of the 20th century.
41.394917°,2.175500°
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Sound of Speed Airshow
In this Overview, spectators explore a variety of aircraft during the Sound of Speed Airshow, which took place last weekend at Rosecrans Memorial Airport in St. Joseph, Missouri. The event included aerial performances and ground displays of dozens of aircraft, including U.S. Navy Blue Angels, C-130 Hercules transporters, P-51 Mustangs, an F-16 Viper, and more.
39.771944°,-94.909694°
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Walter Pyramid
The Walter Pyramid, formerly known as “The Pyramid,” is a 4,000-seat indoor arena on the campus of Long Beach State University in Long Beach, California. Each side of the 18-story-tall complex is 345 feet (105 m), making it a mathematically true pyramid. It is one of just three true pyramid-style buildings the United States, the others being Luxor Las Las Vegas and the Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee.
33.787222°,-118.114167°
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Betsiboka River Erosion
The Betsiboka River estuary in northwestern Madagascar is one of the fastest-changing coastlines in the world. Decades worth of extensive logging in Madagascar’s rainforests and coastal mangroves has lead to widespread erosion, causing bright red soil to wash into the river and out to sea. In some areas, soil losses have approached 112 tons per acre, the largest amount recorded anywhere in the world.
-15.909956°,46.352080°
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Salar de Uyuni
Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat, covering 4,086 square miles (10,582 sq. km) in southwestern Bolivia. This area is estimated to contain roughly 10 billion tons of salt, underneath which lies between 50% and 70% of the world’s known lithium reserves. The salar also contains large amounts of sodium, potassium, magnesium and borax.
-20.133778°,-67.489139°
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Port Hedland
Port Hedland is the largest iron ore loading port in Australia and one of the largest in the world. Located in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia, the port recorded a throughput of more than 550 million tons between 2016 and 2017. In March 2017, Port Hedland had its record single shipment of 297,000 tons, which was aboard the HL Tubarao, an 1,115-foot-long (340 m) vessel from Panama.
-20.330472°,118.569278°
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Ouarzazate Solar Power Station - Noor 3
Noor 3 is one of four sections of the Ouarzazate Solar Power Station in the Drâa-Tafilalet region of Morocco. The solar concentrator contains thousands of mirrors that focus the sun’s thermal energy to heat molten salt flowing through a massive central tower. The molten salt then circulates from the tower to a storage tank, where it is used to produce steam and generate electricity. This segment of the facility opened in spring of this year and is expected to begin delivering power to Morocco’s electricity grid by October.
31.009167°,-6.862222°
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Albuquerque Baseball Complex
The Albuquerque Baseball Complex is part of an 81-acre, city-owned sports complex in the Westland North community of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its five fully lit turfed fields provide space for local baseball and softball teams to practice and play, and grandstand seating allows the facility to host regional and national tournaments. Next June, this sports complex will host the National Senior Games, a 20-sport biennial competition for men and women ages 50 and older.
35.095083°,-106.763639°
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Great Bahama Bank
The Great Bahama Bank is a carbonate platform submerged in the shallow waters around Andros Island in the Bahamas. The limestone that makes up the Bank has been accumulating for at least 140 million years and today is more than 2.8 miles (4.5 km) thick. During the last ice ages, when sea level was roughly 390 feet (120 m) lower, the Great Bahama Bank was dry land.
23.568444°,-76.440111°
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Nisqually River
The Nisqually River flows for roughly 81 miles (130 km) through west central Washington, emptying into the southern end of the Puget Sound. The river’s delta, captured in this Overview, is both a National Wildlife Refuge and a National Natural Landmark, providing a habitat for more than 300 different species of fish and wildlife.
47.082500°,-122.721667°
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Shanghai - Low Angle
Check out this incredible perspective of Shanghai, China, captured by a Planet satellite at a low angle. With more than 24 million residents, Shanghai is the most populous city in China and the second-most populous city proper in the world. Many of Shanghai's landmarks are visible in this Overview, including the Oriental Pearl Tower, the Jin Mao Tower, and the Shanghai World Financial Center.
31.234722°,121.506389°
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James Bay
A tributary of the Attawapiskat River drains into James Bay in northeastern Ontario, Canada. James Bay is a body of water within Hudson Bay, which extends south from the Arctic Ocean. Human presence along the shores of the bay can be traced back to the end of the last ice age roughly 8,150 years ago, and a number of Aboriginal communities remain there today.
52.777778°,-81.933444°
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United States Air Force Academy
The United States Air Force Academy covers 29 square miles (75 sq. km) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This segment of the campus, known as the Cadet Area, features the well-known Cadet Chapel, dormitories, academic buildings, and dining, entertainment and sports facilities. At the center of the Cadet Area is a large, grassy common area known as The Terrazzo.
39.008472°,-104.888667°
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Leimert Park
Leimert Park is a residential neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California. With many blues and jazz night clubs, hip hop venues, and theaters for musicals, comedy performances, poetry readings and award ceremonies, it is often considered the center of Los Angeles’ contemporary African-American arts scene.
34.014806°,-118.331361°
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Riyadh - Low Angle
Check out this amazing view of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, captured by a Planet satellite at a low angle. Riyadh is Saudi Arabia’s capital and most populous city, with more than 7.6 million residents. At the center of this Overview is the King Abdullah Financial District, a $10 billion development project that began in 2006 and is now more than 70% complete.
24.633333°,46.716667°
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