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Paving Washington

Since 1984, the Capital Beltway has gotten wider and much busier as suburbs have sprung up along it.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, based on Landsat data from Song et al. (2015). Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published March 29, 2016
Data acquired 1984 - 2010

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 7 > ETM+