Data acquired 1984
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Data acquired 1984
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Data acquired 2010
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Data acquired 2010
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Paving Washington

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

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Paving Washington.

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