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 "slug": "gemini-solar-nevada-2020-2024",
 "status": "approved",
 "publish_date": "2026-09-26",
 "title": "Gemini Solar, Clark County, Nevada, April 2020 and May 2024",
 "summary": "The same 20 by 11 km frame in 2020 and 2024 records the construction of a 690-megawatt solar plant on open desert northeast of Las Vegas.",
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  "name": "Gemini Solar, Clark County, Nevada, United States",
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   "width": 960,
   "height": 540,
   "alt": "Satellite image from April 2020 of open desert northeast of Las Vegas, with washes, a highway and a small settlement, before the solar plant was built.",
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  {
   "acquired": "2024-05-24",
   "label": "2024-05-24",
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   "scenes": [
    "S2A_MSIL2A_20240524T181921_R127_T11SQA",
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   "webp": "/media/plate-gemini-2024.66385621.webp",
   "width": 960,
   "height": 540,
   "alt": "The same frame in May 2024, with the dark rectangular blocks of the completed solar plant covering the center of the image.",
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   "print_webp": "/media/print-obs-0003-2.2ed6e42b.webp",
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 "sensor": {
  "source": "Sentinel-2",
  "product": "Sentinel-2A Level-2A true-color image, 10 m, relative orbit 127, tiles T11SQA and T11SPA",
  "catalog": "Microsoft Planetary Computer STAC, collection sentinel-2-l2a"
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 "modality": "true-color",
 "themes": [
  "energy",
  "deserts"
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 "lane": "infrastructure-watch",
 "region": {
  "country": "united-states",
  "admin": "Nevada"
 },
 "occasions": [],
 "overlays": [],
 "rights": {
  "imagery": "Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020, 2024. Copernicus Sentinel data is free, full, and open.",
  "overlay": "",
  "render": "Heimdall Research",
  "credit": "Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020, 2024."
 },
 "ctas": {
  "print": true,
  "analysis": true
 },
 "related": {
  "observations": [],
  "field_notes": [],
  "datasets": []
 },
 "path": "/observations/gemini-solar-nevada-2020-2024/",
 "acquired_text": "2020-04-15 and 2024-05-24",
 "resolution_text": "10 m ground sample distance",
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  "S2A_MSIL2A_20200415T181921_R127_T11SPA",
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  "S2A_MSIL2A_20240524T181921_R127_T11SPA"
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 "url": "https://heimdallresearch.com/observations/gemini-solar-nevada-2020-2024/",
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 "author": "Heimdall Research"
}