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Athabasca Oil Sands

Earthy open-pit mines and tailings ponds line the Athabasca River where it flows through the world’s largest field of oil sands.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon using EO-1 ALI data courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published November 5, 2009
Data acquired July 29, 2009

Source:
EO-1 > ALI