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Riyadh, the national capital of Saudi Arabia, is shown in 1972, 1990 and 2000. Its population grew in these years...
STS059-306-034 (9-20 April 1994) --- The radiating transportation pattern of this 20th-Century urban plan is nicely...
STS073-725-031 (24 October 1995) --- The contrasting colors of fall in New England are captured on this...
STS039-88-054 (28 April-6 May 1991) --- The dense urban development of the New York City metropolitan area in...
The city of New Orleans, situated on the southern shore of Lake Pontchartrain, is shown in this radar image from the...
This radar image shows the area west of the Nile River near Cairo, Egypt. The Nile River is the dark band along the...
Istanbul has been a bustling trade city for thousands of years. In this 1975 image, taken by Landsat, the city...
In 1979, China established two special economic zones around the Pearl River Delta, north of Hong Kong. This image,...
STS097-303-031 (30 Nov. - 11 Dec. 2000) --- This scene of Melbourne in Australia's state of Victoria was...
STS098-382-0014 (7-20 February 2001) City Lights of the Northeastern Seaboard of the U.S. were captured with a 35mm...
Aerial view cityscape from airplane at summer
This June 16, 2000 image of Istanbul, Turkey show a full 60 by 60 km ASTER scene in the visible and infrared...
This image of the San Francisco Bay region was acquired on March 3, 2000 by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission...
On Feb. 11, 2013, Landsat 8 launched into Earth orbit, riding on an Atlas V rocket. Weighing 6,133 pounds, Landsat 8...