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Sustaining Seven Billion People

Figuring out how to sustain the world’s growing population is a challenge that satellites can help resolve.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Sustaining Seven Billion People .

NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Holli Riebeek, partly adapted from Using satellites to help the Earth sustain seven billion people.

Published December 9, 2011
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