NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. The Three Gorges Dam spans the Yangtze River in east-central China. It’s the world’s largest power station in terms of installed capacity, with its vast reservoir stretching for 410 miles.
NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
Located in the fertile agricultural region of Argentina’s Pampas is a guitar-shaped forest made up of cypress and eucalyptus trees. An Argentinian farmer planted the forest in memory of his departed wife.
NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
A vast alluvial fan blossoms across the desolate landscape between the Kunlun and Altun mountain ranges that form the southern border of the Taklimakan Desert in China’s XinJiang Province. The left side is the active part of the fan, and appears blue from water currently flowing in the many small streams.
NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
October 2013 brought the worst fires seen in the Australian state of New South Wales in many decades. More than 100 wildfires burned. One of the largest was the Hall Road fire, southwest of Sydney, west of the town of Wollongong. The fire scar is seen in this satellite image acquired Nov. 14, 2013, by the ASTER instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft. Vegetation is displayed in shades of red, burned areas are dark gray, water is black and blue, and urban areas are blue-gray.
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