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Night Lights 2012 - Flat map

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Source: Flooding Along the Orontes River

Some towns and farmland were flooded after powerful earthquakes and heavy rains struck areas of Türkiye and Syria.  

Image of the Day for February 25, 2023

Instruments:

Landsat 8 — OLI

Landsat 9 — OLI-2

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Dubai’s coast has some of the largest and most recognizable land reclamation projects on Earth.

There are few coastlines on Earth quite like the one along Dubai. Two decades ago, there was not much of note along the city’s coast, aside from the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf. Today that coastline is the site of some of the largest and most recognizable land reclamation projects in the world.

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36 - Earth and Moon Mandalas

Check out #MandalaoftheDay 36 - #Earth and #Moon #Mandalas

Earth and Moon Mandalas by EarthObservatory.nasa.gov

This fantastic photo posted on October 17, 2000 by EarthObservatory.nasa.gov gives us a beautiful view of our earth and moon in the same image, each a mandala in their own right.

As we live on this earth it’s quite easy to forget that we are on this big rock “floating” in space. We also forget just how beautiful and precious it is.

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Nile River Delta at Night by NASA on The Commons on Flickr.