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Deserts
Dunes, salt flats and dry basins, where small changes stay visible for decades.
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Gemini Solar, Clark County, Nevada, April 2020 and May 2024
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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Lake Poopó, Bolivia, August 2017 and August 2025
Late dry-season views of the basin in 2017 and 2025 show the extent of exposed salt and playa relative to open water, and the partial recovery of the lake over eight years.
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Okavango Delta, Botswana, April and September 2024
Views from April and September 2024 record the delta before and after the annual flood pulse from the Angolan highlands spread through its channels.
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