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Data acquired February 5, 1987 720 x 360 JPEG
Data acquired February 5, 1987 5461 x 4096 9 MB - JPEG
Data acquired February 24, 1991 720 x 360 JPEG
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Data acquired 1987 - 2012 257 KB - KML/KMZ
Data acquired January 17, 2012 JPEG
Over the course of 25 years, farms have sprouted in the Arabian Desert, fueled by deep and old groundwater.
NASA Earth Observatory image created by Robert Simmon and Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Aries Keck and Michael Carlowicz. NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) jointly manage Landsat, and the USGS preserves a 40-year archive of Landsat images that is freely available data over the Internet.
Published May 12, 2012 Data acquired January 17, 2012