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The Nagarunja Sagar Dam on India Krishna River is the largest masonry dam in operation in the world. This image is...
Acquired by NASA Terra spacecraft, this image shows the Three Gorges Dam which spans the Yangtze River in...
Egypt's High Aswan Dam on the Nile River at the first cataracts, Nile River, (24.0N, 33.0E) was completed in 1971 to...
On January 25, 2019, a dam burst at a Brazilian iron ore mine. The dam's breach unleashed a torrent of mud and mine...
This ASTER image shows a 60 km stretch of the Yangtze River in China, including the Xiling Gorge, the eastern of the...
Filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) along the Blue Nile River is well under way near the...
iss072e069220 (Oct. 16, 2024) --- The Jebba Dam (lower left) impounds the Niger River creating a reservoir in...
This is a single scene from a pair (frames 021 & 024) to study the effects of polarized light in Earth Observations....
This is a single scene from a pair (frames 021 & 024) to study the effects of polarized light in Earth Observations....
iss073e0879542 (Oct. 13, 2025) --- Lake Nasser, created by the Aswan High Dam in southern Egypt, is one of the...
iss074e0315952 (Feb. 16, 2026) --- Egypt’s Nile River turns into Lake Nasser (upper left) at the Aswan High Dam,...
The Lake Palanskoye in northern Kamchatka was formed when a large landslide disrupted the drainage pattern, forming...
ISS019-E-007720 (15 April 2009) --- Three Gorges Dam in China is featured in this image photographed by an...
Oroville Dam in Northern California is an earth fill embankment dam, and is the tallest dam in the U.S. Lake...
Oblique Earth Observation taken by the Apollo 9 crew. View is the United Arab Republic,the Nile River,The Red Sea...
ISS005-E-12804 (6 September 2002) --- Tarbela Dam, Pakistan is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition...
iss068e006715 (Oct. 1, 2022) --- This portion of the Euphrates River, containing the Keban Dam Reservoir created by...
A bottleneck at the start of the lunar sinuous rille within Vallis Alpes formed several morphologic features...
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. Its name derives from a dam in the river Amstel....
This image from NASA Terra satellite shows the Kachchh region in the Gujarat province of western India. On January...
iss071e523521 (Aug. 21, 2024) --- Brazil's Single Island Dam (top) leads into the Paranaiba River which splits into...
STS083-747-026 (4-8 April 1997) --- Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser along the Nile River, Egypt. The Aswan Dam controls...
iss071e462180 (Aug. 9, 2024) --- Lake Assad in Syria (upper right) and lakes created by hydroelectric dams in...
iss063e002302 (April 22, 2020) --- The Idriss I Dam in Morocco is pictured from the International Space Station as...