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The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain. Materials based on Hubble Space Telescope data may be copyrighted if they are not explicitly produced by the STScI . [1]
Original - Panoramic view from Space Needle, Seattle, WA. Pictures taken from the top, almost all around. The panorama starts with Puget Sound on the left and then rotates clockwise, showing Queen Anne, Lake Union, I-5, Downtown and then again Puget Sound with some cranes from Seattle Harbor Edit 1 - crop, downsample, slight sharpen, some noise reduction
The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States. Considered to be an icon of the city, it has been designated a Seattle landmark . Located in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood, it was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair , which drew over 2.3 million visitors.
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by area and the third largest in volume, behind Lake Baikal in Siberia and Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. The Caspian Sea, while larger than Lake Superior in both surface area and volume, is brackish. Lake Superior's deepest point [4] on the bathymetric map. [1]
English: Aerial photo of Space Needle under construction, 1961, in preparation for the Century 11 Exposition (1962 Seattle World's Fair). Item 167461 , Engineering Department Photographic Negatives (Record Series 2613-07), Seattle Municipal Archives .
The photos don't take into account several February storms, including the epic snowfall over the weekend, which also are likely to help move the needle. Lake Shasta, shown above, is California's ...
The Grand Sable Dunes today form a five-mile-long sand slope that rises from Lake Superior at a 35° angle. The summits of the tallest dunes are as high as 275 feet (85 m) above lake level. Glacial melt during the last major advance/retreat called the Marquette Readvance created the conditions for the formation of the Grand Sable Banks.
English: Space Needle (Seattle, Washington, USA) under construction, 1961. This distance shot gives quite a bit of context of a much-changed neighborhood, and also shows the U.S. Pavilion (later Pacific Science Center) and Coliseum (later KeyArena) under construction.