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From barren desert to new city in just over a decade. This is Galala, Egypt, seen from 2011 to 2022, as roads, housing, resorts, university buildings, and other infrastructure spread across the Galala Plateau above the Gulf of Suez. Rising more than 2,000 feet above the Red Sea coast, Galala is part of Egypt’s broader effort to build new urban centers and expand development along the Red Sea corridor. Created by @dailyoverview Source imagery @vantor_tech
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Las Vegas, Nevada has expanded dramatically across the Mojave Desert in recent decades, with new subdivisions, roads, golf courses, resorts, and commercial areas spreading outward from the city’s core. In 1984, the Las Vegas metropolitan area had about 539,000 residents. Today, that figure has risen to upwards of 3 million people, reflecting one of the most dramatic urban growth stories in the American Southwest. Source imagery: Google Earth Timelapse
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Christ the Redeemer, seen from a low-angle satellite perspective above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Completed in 1931 after nearly a decade of construction, the statue stands 98 feet tall, or 125 feet including its pedestal, with arms stretching 92 feet across the summit of Mount Corcovado. Built from reinforced concrete and covered in millions of small soapstone tiles, the 635-metric-ton (1.4-million-pound) monument had to be assembled more than 2,300 feet above the city, with materials carried up the mountain by rail. Image courtesy of @blackskyinc
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The Metropolitan City of Naples is the third-largest city in Italy and one of the most densely populated areas in Europe, with more than 3 million inhabitants. Its population has continued to grow in recent decades, despite its proximity to Mount Vesuvius, an active volcano. Around 600,000 people live in Vesuvius’s “zona rossa” — an area around its slopes designated for quick evacuation if an eruption occurs. Created by @dailyoverview Source imagery: Google Timelapse
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The southern tip of Manhattan, New York City. The Financial District fills the center of this low-angle shot, with One World Trade Center rising near the Hudson River waterfront. In the foreground, the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge cross the East River, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn. Farther out in New York Harbor are Governors Island and Liberty Island, home to the Statue of Liberty — landmarks that speak to the city’s long history as a gateway for trade, immigration, and movement through one of the world’s busiest natural harbors. Image courtesy of @blackskyinc
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Peter I Island, seen stirring the clouds above the Southern Ocean. Located in the Bellingshausen Sea off the coast of West Antarctica, Peter I Island is a remote, ice-covered volcano more than 1,100 miles from Cape Horn, Chile. In this image, captured on February 11, 2026, winds moving across the island were disrupted by its icy peak, creating a series of spiraling cloud patterns known as von Kármán vortex streets. These counter-rotating eddies form when air flows around an obstacle, slows, and spins into repeating swirls downwind. Source imagery: @nasa
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St. Louis, Missouri, seen at a low angle along the Mississippi River. At the center of the city’s waterfront is the Gateway Arch, the 630-foot monument built to commemorate the city’s role as the “Gateway to the West.” Slide to the second image to see a more zoomed in view. The city is home to 280,000 people, making it the second largest in Missouri after Kansas City. Downtown St. Louis stretches just behind the arch, with Busch Stadium visible nearby and a network of highways, rail lines, bridges, and barges showing the city’s long-standing connection to transportation, trade, and the river. Satellite image courtesy of @blackskyinc
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Islands from above. Surrounded by ocean, islands often become their own little worlds. Their isolation can create unique ecosystems, unusual landscapes, and species found nowhere else on Earth. Though many are small, islands play an important role in biodiversity, culture, tourism, and the health of the oceans around them. This gallery features nine island Overviews from our archive: Baljenac, Croatia — Source: @vantor_tech Tofua, Tonga — Source: @vantor_tech Atlasov Island, Russia — Source: @nasa Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand — Source: @vantor_tech Île des Pingouins — Source: @vantor_tech Galešnjak, Croatia — Source: @vantor_tech Espíritu Santo, Mexico — Source: @planetlabs Santorini, Greece — Source: @vantor_tech Iceland — Source: @airbus_space All images created by @dailyoverview with source imagery by the providers listed above. From stone walls and heart-shaped shorelines to volcanic craters, coral-fringed coasts, and glacier-carved terrain, each island shows a different relationship between land and sea.
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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, seen from a satellite 38 seconds after liftoff. Captured by @blackskyinc , the rocket was already traveling more than 400 miles per hour over the Atlantic Ocean after lifting off from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The final slide shows the same rocket on the launchpad yesterday, ahead of today’s ViaSat-3 F3 mission. Image courtesy of @blackskyinc
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Umm al-Maa, meaning “Mother of Water,” is an oasis lake in the Ubari Sand Sea of southwestern Libya. Surrounded by massive sand dunes, the presence of water here feel almost impossible. The lake is sustained not by rivers or regular rainfall, but by groundwater beneath the Sahara — ancient reserves left from a much wetter period when this region was once part of the vast Lake Megafezzan. The fourth image, captured from satellite, shows just how rare water is in this landscape. Drone images by @graatjeweber Satellite image created by @dailyoverview , source @airbus_space
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Paris, France, with the Eiffel Tower in the foreground and the Arc de Triomphe near the top center. The street plan and distinctive appearance of central Paris are largely due to the vast public works program commissioned by Emperor Napoléon III and directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann between 1853 and 1870, which demolished crowded medieval neighborhoods and introduced broad diagonal avenues, parks, squares, sewers, fountains, and aqueducts. Image courtesy of @blackskyinc
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The Hollywood Sign, captured at a low angle from approximately 400 miles (643 kilometers) away by a @blackskyinc satellite. Located on Mount Lee in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, the sign was originally erected in 1923 as “Hollywoodland” to advertise a real estate development. The final four letters were removed in 1949, transforming it into the landmark known around the world today. Image courtesy of @blackskyinc
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