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Human landscapes in SW Florida - near Fort Myers

via The Big Picture

Massive Beaver Dam Visible From Space : TreeHugger

According to The Sun, the massive beaver dam spans 2,790 feet, which is 1,546 feet longer than the Hoover dam, which held the title as the largest dam from the years 1936 to 1945. Biologists stumbled on the structure, located in Alberta’s Wood Buffalo National Park, while cataloging beaver activity in North America. One researcher described the dam as “particularly big.”

and may have taken twenty years to build

natural color, high-resolution QuickBird satellite image of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill (April 26, 2010)

via DigitalGlobe

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From a WIRED gallery of ice seen from space:

The Sea of Okhotsk sits between Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia. In the winter, it becomes largely covered by ice. In the image above, captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite in February 2007, cold winds from Siberia combine with moist ocean air to form the cloud streets streaming away from the ice.

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Edrengiyn Nuruu - The Edrengiyn Nuruu forms a transition zone between the Mongolian steppes to the north and the arid deserts of northern China to the south. (via 60 Stunning Satellite Photos of Earth | Webdesigner Depot)

Kamchatka Peninsula – The eastern side of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula juts into the Pacific Ocean west of Alaska. In this winter image, a volcanic terrain is hidden under snow-covered peaks and valley glaciers feed blue ice into coastal waters. (via 60 Stunning Satellite Photos of Earth | Webdesigner Depot)

60 Stunning Satellite Photos of Earth | Webdesigner Depot

Von Karman Vortices - As air flows over and around objects in its path, spiraling eddies, known as Von Karman vortices, may form. The vortices in this image were created when prevailing winds sweeping east across the northern Pacific Ocean encountered Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.

60 Stunning Satellite Photos of Earth | Webdesigner Depot

Ocean Sand, Bahamas – Though the above image may resemble a new age painting straight out of an art gallery in Venice Beach, California, it is in fact a satellite image of the sands and seaweed in the Bahamas. The image was taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) instrument aboard the Landsat 7 satellite. Tides and ocean currents in the Bahamas sculpted the sand and seaweed beds into these multicolored, fluted patterns in much the same way that winds sculpted the vast sand dunes in the Sahara Desert

60 Stunning Satellite Photos of Earth | Webdesigner Depot

West Fjords – The West Fjords are a series of peninsulas in northwestern Iceland. They represent less than one-eighth the country’s land area, but their jagged perimeter accounts for more than half of Iceland’s total coastline.

60 Stunning Satellite Photos of Earth | Webdesigner Depot

Garden City, Kansas – Center pivot irrigation systems create red circles of healthy vegetation in this image of croplands near Garden City, Kansas.