Palm
This IKONOS satellite image was collected on July 16, 2004. The Image shows this
man-made island that lies
off
the coast of
from
the approach channel to the Emirate's Jebel Ali Port. When complete, this resort
will have approximately
1,200
single-family and 600 multi-family residences, an aquatic Theme park, shopping
centers, cinemas and more.
2)
The Great Pyramid,
This featured image is a 61-centimeter pan-sharpened image of the Great Pyramid
in
QuickBird
on February 2, 2002. The Great Pyramid is estimated to have been built circa
2650 B .C., and was
erected
as a tomb for the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu of The Fourth Dynasty. Upon the
completion of its
construction,
the Great Pyramid stood 145.75 meters (481 feet) high, and over the Millennia
has lost
approximately
10 meters (30 feet) off the top. It Stood as the tallest structure on Earth for
more than 43 centuries.
3)
The image shows the Niagara River that connects Lake Erie to
lower
left of the full Image. Most of the river's water plummets over the
Canadian/Horseshoe Falls, but some
diverted
water spills over American Falls and
million
liters of water plunges over the Horseshoe Falls Segment of Niagara Falls
creating one of the world's
largest
Waterfalls as well as eating away as much as two meters of rock per Year. The
image was acquired August 2, 2004
4)
Tsunami strikes the coast of
This is a natural color, 60-centimeter (2-foot) high-resolution QuickBird
satellite image featuring the
southwestern
coast of
slightly
less than four hours after the 6:28 a.m. (local
of
tsunami Impact.
5)
This one-meter resolution satellite image of
Sept.
12, 2001 by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite. The image shows an area of white
and gray-colored
Dust and smoke at the location where the 1,350-foot towers of the
.
6)
Grand Canyon
Northern Arizona and the
In
addition to the Grand Canyon itself, which is Visible in the western (lower)
half of the images, other landmarks Include Lake Powell, on the left, and
Meteor
Crater appears as a Small dark depression with a brighter rim, and is just
visible along The upper right-hand edge.
7)
North and South Malosmadulu Atolls are in the
southwest
of
clusters
of atolls. It has a total area of 298 Square kilometers and a population of
about 330,000. The capital
and
Largest city is Male, with a population of about 80,000. Argu ably The
lowest-lying country in the world, the average elevation is just 1 meter above
sea level. The natural-color ASTER image of the Malosmadulu Atolls was acquired
on December 22, 2002, and is Centered near 5.3 degrees North latitude, 73.9
degrees West
Longitude.
8)
Ayers Rock (Uluru),
This IKONOS satellite image of Ayers Rock was collected Jan. 17, 2004. Ayers
Rock is located in
9)
Noah's
Is it or isn't it? Satellite images of
Decide
for yourself! Compare this image taken by Digital Globe on September 10, 2003
with Shamrock
--
The Trinity Corporation's image (enlarge). Also, note Their image is flipped.
10)
The
This
image of the northern portion of the
waters
are swirling with color, likely a mixture of sediment, organic matter, and
possibly marine plant life. Farther west, the bright blue color of the water is
likely less-organically rich sediment, perhaps sand.
11)
Earth's City Lights
This
image of Earth's city lights, captured on October 19, 2000, Was created with
data from the Defense
Meteorological
Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). The brightest areas
of the
Earth
are the most urbanized, but not necessarily the most populated. Cities tend to
grow along coastlines and
transportation networks. The
brighter
dots of city centers. In
the
center of Asia to
bright
thread through an otherwise dark region.
12)
On
a Space Station expedition , astronauts observed and captured this
detailed image of the volcano's summit
caldera. In the center of
the crater sits a lava dome that is 876 feet above the crater floor
and is about 3,500
feet in diameter. The dome began to form After the May 18, 1980 eruption of
eruption,
there was not any dome building eruptions for more than a Decade. Afternoon
lighting accents the flow
features in the volcanic and
debris flows and the steep valleys eroded into the loosely Consolidated material
near the summit. This picture was taken on October 25, 2002