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Morganza Floodway, 1973
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Published May 14, 2011
Observations by Landsat 1 from 1973 show the Morganza Floodway after its first and only opening in 57 years.
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Aquaculture and Salt Production near Bo Hai, China
Published February 8, 2009
China’s Bo Hai coast is one example of the rapid expansion of aquaculture in the late twentieth century.
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Yellow River Delta, China
Published January 4, 2009
China’s Yellow River, or Huang He, travels through soft plateaus of silt, picking up a massive sediment load on its journey. The sediment carried by the river has reshaped China’s coast, adding several hundred square kilometers of land.
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Tripoli, Libya
Published November 9, 2008
Deserts cover Libya’s interior, but cities such as Tripoli have expanded along the fertile lowlands of the country’s coast.
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Penny Ice Cap in 1979 and 2000
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Published September 18, 2008
Penny Ice Cap is the southernmost of Canada’s big ice caps. Like other glaciers and ice caps in the Northern Hemisphere, the Penny has been thinning and its valley glaciers have been retreating in recent decades.
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Mississippi River Delta
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Published October 7, 2007
Time, weather, and human intervention have all shaped the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana, a giant bird’s foot shape protruding into the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi River deposits sediment into the ocean, and over 25 years, NASA Landsat satellites observed changes in the delta’s shape.
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The Shrinking Aral Sea
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Published May 5, 2001
The sequence of images shows the dramatic changes to the Aral Sea between 1973 and 2000.
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