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Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills

Sand, wind, and isolation led the Wright brothers to travel to North Carolina’s barrier islands to conduct their flying experiments from 1900-1903.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published December 18, 2020
Data acquired December 21, 2017

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI