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Munich International Airport, Germany
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Munich International Airport, Germany

The Franz Josef Strauss, or Munich, International Airport served 29 million passengers in 2005, making it Germany’s second-busiest airport, after Frankfurt. This astronaut photograph, taken from the International Space Station, shows enough detail to distinguish individual airplanes on the terminal apron, and the dark gray-blue rooftop of Terminal 2.

Published Oct 9, 2006

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Kansai Airport
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Kansai Airport

Published Feb 12, 2004

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Beirut Metropolitan Area, Lebanon
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Beirut Metropolitan Area, Lebanon

The capital of Lebanon, Beirut, is located along the southeastern shoreline of the Mediterranean Sea. The metropolitan area is built on a small peninsula composed mainly of sedimentary rock deposited over the past 100 million years or so. The growth of the city eastwards is bounded by foothills of the more mountainous interior of Lebanon.

Published Jan 14, 2008

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Boston
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Boston

This image provides a good bird’s-eye view of the center of the city, including famous colonial and independence locations extending from Boston Common to the North End.

Published Nov 17, 2003

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Flood Waters Inundate a Bangkok Airport
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Flood Waters Inundate a Bangkok Airport

This view of airplanes stranded on a flooded airport tarmac highlights the seriousness of the flood disaster unfolding in Bangkok, Thailand.

Published Nov 2, 2011

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Dallas
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Dallas

This pair of images shows explosively growing suburbs—“boomburbs”—north of Dallas, Texas.

Published Feb 7, 2010

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Dallas Metropolitan Area at Night
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Dallas Metropolitan Area at Night

Like most cities in the western United States, the Dallas-Fort Worth area was laid out in a grid pattern.

Published Dec 31, 2012

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National Stadium of Brasília
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National Stadium of Brasília

Astronauts have the best view of the city’s well-known “swept wing” city layout, which takes the form of a flying bird that is expressed in the curves of the boulevards. The stadium sits between the wings.

Published Jun 16, 2014

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Florianópolis, Brazil
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Florianópolis, Brazil

Astronauts learn to sense the way sunlight brings out different features in the water and around coastal cities.

Published Apr 27, 2015

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Fort McMurray Fire Continues to Rage
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Fort McMurray Fire Continues to Rage

A shift in the winds has put worker camps north of Fort McMurray at risk.

Published May 17, 2016

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Dallas, Texas
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Dallas, Texas

The Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is the largest in Texas, with an approximate population of 6 million people in 2005.

Published Jul 25, 2005

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Chicago and Its Loop
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Chicago and Its Loop

A photograph from the space station shows some of the natural features that have governed the growth of the city.

Published Dec 22, 2014

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A Star of Japan, Hakodate City
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A Star of Japan, Hakodate City

Hakodate City is a seaport located on two bays in the Oshima Peninsula near the south end of the major Japanese island of Hokkaido. This image nicely illustrates how sunglint reflecting off the ocean reveals internal waves impinging on the coast. Also, from space, Hakodate is quite distinguished from other cities of it size, featuring a large five-pointed star near it center.

Published Sep 22, 2002

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