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A Long Look at El Paso and Ciudad Juarez

When the Landsat archive is combined with modern computing power, scientists can view the planet not just across space, but also time.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A Long Look at El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

Images by Robert Simmon and Jesse Allen, using data from the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA. Video by Robert Simmon. Caption by Kate Ramsayer and Mike Carlowicz.

Published June 11, 2013
Data acquired May 21, 2013

Sources:: Landsat 5 > TM; Landsat 7 > ETM+; Landsat 8 > OLI