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San Francisco Bay Area Fog
37.809900°,-122.497700° - Satellite imagery
Swirling fog formed outside of San Francisco Bay and passed through the Golden Gate Strait on August 26, 2024. Late summer is peak fog season in the Bay Area due to "upwelling" — when cold ocean water rises to the surface near the coastline, causing warm air from the Pacific to cool rapidly and condense into fog. Hotter temperatures inland then pull the fog through the narrow opening of the Strait.
UAE Desert
25.135106°,55.882922° - Vantor
The Sharjah-Kalba Road passes through desert sand dunes near Maleha, United Arab Emirates. In the month of July, the average temperature here is 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42.2 degrees Celsius).
Aspen Snowmass
39.213042°,-106.937821° - Vantor
Aspen Snowmass is one of four recreational areas at the Aspen winter resort complex in Colorado, USA. This particular mountain has a total skiable area of 1,010 acres (409 hectares), with its longest run extending 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers) down the mountain.
Riyadh Airport (RUH)
24.959443°,46.701083° - Vantor
King Khalid International Airport is located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The airport consists of four passenger terminals, parking for 11,600 vehicles, a Royal Terminal for distinguished guests and members of the Saudi Royal family, and two parallel runways which are both 13,980 feet (4,260 meters) long.
Boeing Airplane Factory
47.926522°,-122.272072° - Nearmap
The Boeing airplane factory in Everett, Washington, USA, is the world’s largest manufacturing facility. Boeing’s 28,000 employees have the use of 450 tricycles to quickly get around the complex. The main assembly building is so large, it could hold 75 American football fields.
Addis Ababa Agriculture
9.019194°,38.752463° - Vantor
Agricultural development is seen in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Both the capital and the largest city in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa has a population of approximately 3.4 million. Despite the significant role urban agriculture has played in the history of the city, this activity is facing challenges due to rapid urbanization and the subsequent competitive demand for land.
Yakutia
68.549671°,146.232876° - Satellite imagery
This Overview shows vibrantly colored lichens and mosses in Russia’s Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia. This vegetation provides sustenance for reindeer, which many locals rely on for milk and meat. This particular area is located in the Arctic Circle, roughly 650 miles (1,046 km) northeast of Yakutsk — the Republic’s capital city — and has an average January temperature of -41.3 °F (-40.7 °C).
Austrian Fields
48.200100°,16.745670° - Vantor
This Overview captures agricultural development surrounding Fuchsenbigl, a municipality of Haringsee, Austria. The town’s total population is roughly 1,165.
Lithium Solar Ponds
-23.500000°,-68.250000° - Vantor
The Soquimich Lithium Mine is located in the Atacama Desert of Chile. With no historical record of rainfall in parts of the region, it is considered to be one of the driest places on Earth. Mineral-rich brines — water with a high percentage of dissolved salts — are pumped from underground wells into large, shallow ponds that are colored to speed up the evaporation process. The subsurface brines of the Atacama are particularly rich in lithium salts, an essential component of certain batteries and medicines.
Gotland Algae Bloom
57.649684°,18.714468° - Satellite imagery
Swirling algae blooms in the Baltic Sea surround Gotland, Sweden’s largest island. These massive blue-green clouds are composed of cyanobacteria — a type of marine bacteria that capture and store solar energy through photosynthesis. Large blooms can cause an oxygen-depleted dead zone where other organisms cannot survive. For a sense of scale, Gotland is 1,229 square miles (3,184 sq kilometers) in area — about twice the size of London.
CopenHill
55.684254°,12.619325° - Vantor, Google Earth
CopenHill, also known as Amager Bakke, is a waste-to-energy power plant in Copenhagen, Denmark, with an artificial ski slope on its roof. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and opened in 2019, the 85-meter-tall (280 ft) combined heat and power plant incinerates roughly 440,000 tons of non-recyclable household waste each year, supplying electricity to around 30,000 households and district heating to 72,000 more. Its sloped roof holds a year-round ski run, hiking trails, and a rooftop bar. Lastly, one side of the structure is billed as the world’s tallest artificial climbing wall.
Central Kalimantan
-0.860911°,114.028953° - ESA, Vantor, Google Timelapse
Large areas of rainforest in Central Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, have been converted to oil palm plantations, sometimes cleared with fire, a practice that is illegal but still common. Along the rivers, small-scale gold mining, much of it unlicensed, has left the banks scarred with pale stretches of bare sand. Miners loosen the soil with high-pressure hoses and separate the gold with mercury, which can wash into rivers and build up in the fish that local communities depend on. Both industries are important sources of income in the region, but they have reshaped its landscape. Last week, we shared an Overview of the fires burning across Kalimantan. It has become the epicenter of Indonesia’s worst fire season in years. Much of the province sits on peat, which is drained for plantations. Combined with a long dry season, the dried peat becomes highly flammable and can smolder underground for weeks.
Dasht-e Kavir
34.737359°,54.827235° - ESA
Salt domes form swirling bands of color across Dasht-e Kavir, the Great Salt Desert of central Iran. Tens of millions of years ago, an arm of the ancient Tethys Ocean flooded this region and then evaporated, leaving behind a layer of salt up to 4 miles (6–7 km) thick. Over time the salt rose through the sediment above and bent those layers into concentric rings.
Pima Air & Space Museum
32.139959°,-110.864970° - Nearmap
Spread across 80 acres of Arizona desert, the Pima Air & Space Museum holds more than 400 retired aircraft, including a Boeing VC-137B that carried Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy as Air Force One before its retirement in 1998. Swipe to see a detailed Overview of the plane. Air Force One rarely changes, which makes recent news notable: a $400M Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar entered service as the newest one this month, only to be pulled from service weeks later for upgrades. It marks just the third generational change to the fleet since the jet era began, the latest turn in the story of the select aircraft that carry the sitting US president.
Monaco F1
43.738418°,7.424616° - Planet
The streets of Monte Carlo come alive today as the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix unfolds along one of the most iconic circuits in Formula 1. Winding through the harbor, past luxury yachts, and beneath historic architecture, this race has been a crown jewel of the sport since 1929. With overtaking nearly impossible, every qualifying lap, pit stop, and millisecond matters.
Lake Powell
37.068262°,-111.243311° - Vantor
Lake Powell is a man-made reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona. Second in size only to Lake Mead, it can store up to 7.9 trillion gallons (29.9 trillion liters) of water when full. That’s almost 12 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Jacksonville Turbine Interchange
30.253056°,-81.516194° - Vantor
A turbine interchange connects the SR 9A and SR 202 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Also known as a whirlpool or turbine interchange, this structure consists of left-turning ramps sweeping around a center interchange, thereby creating a spiral pattern of right-hand traffic. This type of junction is rarely built, due to the vast amount land that is required to construct the sweeping roads.
Sakurajima Volcano
31.579415°,130.659530° - Vantor
Sakurajima, an active stratovolcano in Kyushu, Japan, was once an island until lava flows from its massive 1914 eruption connected it to the Osumi Peninsula (seen at left in this Overview). Since 1955, it has been in a near-constant state of eruption, producing thousands of small explosions each year. Just 8 km (5 mi) away, the city of Kagoshima—home to more than 600,000 people—is one of the largest urban centers in such close proximity to an active volcano.
Monterrey, Mexico
25.665820°,-100.299560° - Vantor
Monterrey is one of the largest and fastest-growing cities in Mexico, with more than 5.3 million residents. Its population has more than doubled in the last 40 years, causing the city to sprawl alongside and outward from the rugged, folding mountain ranges of adjacent Cumbres de Monterrey National Park.
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