By collecting natural or human landscapes taken by satellite or aerial photography, we can appreciate and analyze the changes that are taking place on the earth, so that we can understand this beautiful planet more intuitively.
Ushuaia, Argentina
Argentina, located between the Assial Mountains and the Beagle Strait near the southernmost tip of South America. Nicknamed "World's End," the city is home to about 75,000 people and is located 680 miles (1,100 kilometers) from the Antarctic Peninsula.
Ulshuaia-Malvinas Argentina International Airport can be seen in the picture, which is the southernmost international airport in the world.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam's canal system – known as "Grachton"
This is the result of planned urban planning. At the beginning of the 17th century, a large number of immigrants arrived in Amsterdam, and at its peak, a comprehensive plan for the city's expansion was drawn up, and four concentric semicircular canals appeared on the main waterfront. Canals have been used for defense, water management and transportation for hundreds of years, and they remain the city's icon today.
Cambodia Angkor Wat temple complex
Angkor Wat, a temple complex in Shupu Village, is one of the largest religious sites in the world, first Hinduism and then Buddhism. Built in the 12th century, the approximately 820,000-square-meter site of Angkor Wat is characterized by a moat and forest surrounded by a huge temple in the center.
Medina, Morocco
The Medina district of Marrakech, Morocco, is characterized by winding, labyrinth streets. Due to the intricately connected honeycomb alleys that are narrow to less than a meter (about 3 feet) wide in some places, there is usually no car traffic in the area. Morocco became the first African country to reach the semifinals of the FIFA World Cup at the 2022 World Cup.
Rovinj, Croatia
Rovinj-Rovigno is a city in Croatia with a population of about 15,000 people. Located in the northern Adriatic Peninsula, Istria is a popular tourist destination and an active fishing port. Most people in Rovinj speak two languages, Croatian and Italian — a few even speak Eastriot, an endangered Romance language that now has fewer than 1,000 speakers.
Please view it in landscape orientation
San Francisco Bay Area
This low-angle photograph of San Francisco, California, and the surrounding "Bay Area" captures many of the city's landmarks from 800 miles away, including the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge, Alcatraz Island and Golden Gate Park.
Davis Monathan Air Force Base
Located in Tucson, Arizona, it is the world's largest aircraft storage and preservation facility. The facility, operated by the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, contains more than 4,400 retired U.S. military and government aircraft.
International City is a community in Dubai, UAE, with numerous rural-themed homes, business and tourist attractions. This design concept is said to be inspired by the texture of carpets in the Middle East.
Clouds float 120 miles (193 km) outside Manaus, Brazil, in the Amazon rainforest. Located in the northern section of Rio Negro State Park, this special site is a protected area of more than 360,000 acres (146,000 hectares), 87% of which is classified as dense rainforest.
About 30 families live in the park, most of them descendants of a group of scholars, who make a living from bananas and cassava.
Bilbao, Spain
Bilbao is a city of about 350,000 people in northern Spain. Its city center, along the Nervion River, is made up of a grid of rectangular buildings and wide avenues. Another city, Barcelona, uses a similar urban planning design.
Rome, Italy
Rome is the capital and most populous city of Italy, with a population of over 2.8 million. Located along the Tiber River, it has been an important religious, artistic and cultural center for thousands of years and is generally considered the "cradle of Western civilization". Also shown in this image is the Vatican City, the smallest country in the world, located within the city limits of Rome.
New York, USA
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough in New York City, with a population of approximately 1.6 million. With an area of nearly 23 square miles, with more than 72,000 people living within each square mile, we can clearly see Central Park.
Florida, USA
The Florida Keys are a series of tropical islands located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, about 120 miles (193 km) from the southern tip of Florida, United States.
The cargo ship docks at one of the many container terminals in the Port of Los Angeles, California. Also known as the "Port of America," it has been the busiest container port in the United States for at least 20 consecutive years, handling 9.2 million units of cargo in 2020. The port handles 20% of all incoming cargo in the United States.
See colorful autumn foliage in Ball City, New Hampshire, USA.
The building in this image comes from a story. Thousands of demonstrators recently gathered in Tehran, Iran, to protest the detention of a young woman by the country's "morality police."
The 22-year-old died last week after being arrested for not complying with Iran's strict rules on female head protection. This image shows Tehran's Azadi Tower, which became a symbol of freedom during the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Gwangyang Steel Plant, South Korea
The steel plant in Gwangyang, South Korea, is the largest of its kind in the world. It produces an average of 18 million tons of steel a year and produces parts for bridges and other infrastructure, cars, refrigerators and more. The plant even serves as a tourist attraction, receiving hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world.
Dubai
At 2,717 feet (828 meters), the Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world and the centerpiece of downtown Dubai, UAE. The 163-storey building overlooks the Dubai Fountain, the sprawling Dubai Mall, Dubai Opera and other tourist attractions. Its design is an abstraction of the flower, a desert flower with long petals from its center.
Back in 2020, an underwater gas pipeline ruptured, causing a lot of chaos in the Baltic Sea near the Danish island of Bornholm. While neither pipeline — Nord Stream 1 and 2 — actively delivered natural gas, hundreds of millions of tons of methane leaked out of the pipeline, creating the half-mile-wide churning sea circle seen here. European leaders believe that the leak was caused by a deliberate underwater explosion and Russia's sabotage of Europe.
Source image: Danish Defense Command
French Polynesia
The islands of Tahaa and Laiataia in French Polynesia form a keyhole shape in the South Pacific. The two islands are surrounded by the same coral reefs and may have once been a single continental mass. Taha'a has a population of about 5,200, while Raiataia has a population of about 12,500.
Iguazu Falls
Iguazu Falls, located on the border of Argentina and Brazil, flows 10 times more than usual after heavy rainfall in the area. This is the largest waterfall system in the world, with approximately 275 waterfalls and a normal flow of 390,000 gallons per second. The image recorded the time over a measurement range of 3.8 million gallons.
Sicily, Italy
Smoke rises from Mount Etna, an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy. At 11,014 feet (3,357 m) above sea level, it is one of the highest active volcanoes in Europe. During the six-month period of 2021, Etna erupted so much volcanic material that its height increased by about 100 feet (30 meters).
Cairo, Egypt Pyramid complex
The Great Pyramid of Giza is located on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Dating back to 2580 BC, the Great Pyramid is the largest structure in the ruins, the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one largely intact. The 481-foot (146-meter) tall pyramid is estimated to have 2.3 million stones, each weighing between 2 and 30 tons, and has been the world's tallest building for more than 3,800 years.
Netherlands waterproof dam barrier partial
Oosterscheldekering (storm surge barrier) is the largest of 13 dams designed to protect the Netherlands from flooding in the North Sea. It straddles about 5.6 miles (9 kilometers) between the islands of Schouwen-Duiveland and Noord-Beveland, a large sluice-style gate that can close in bad weather conditions, designed for more than 200 years in Oosterscheldekering, widely known in the Western world as the Eighth Wonder of the World.
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