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Nice shot of Southwest Pass with ships and oil platforms!


Mississippi River Delta Louisiana


Earth from Space: Deep South Delta by europeanspaceagency, on Flickr
^ nice pic of Florida! You can see metro Miami's rigid grid pattern along with the SW coast as well. Orlando & Atlanta look like the sprawling blobs that they are radiating in all directions. For being the largest city in Florida , Jacksonville looks very small.
^^ Maybe it is the angle, but Jax still does have quite a bit of rural land away from the urban core.
^ nice pic of Florida! You can see metro Miami's rigid grid pattern along with the SW coast as well. Orlando & Atlanta look like the sprawling blobs that they are radiating in all directions. For being the largest city in Florida , Jacksonville looks very small.
Jacksonville looks exactly how I would expect a Metro with only 1.3 million people to look. Where as Miami looks like a Metro with 5.5 million people. Jacksonville might have the biggest population, but 1.3 million is pretty small, making it only the 40th largest metro in the Nation, where as Miami is comfortably sitting at 8th.
I love Miami's highly structured lay out. It just seems so carefully thought out, I love it!
I love Miami's highly structured lay out. It just seems so carefully thought out, I love it!
You have the Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean to thank for that. The Everglades store up huge amounts of fresh water. If we pave over them, we're screwed.
Atlanta nighttime thermal comparison


Atlanta, United States by NASA Goddard Photo and Video, on Flickr

(Left image) Suburban Atlanta nighttime thermal and (Right image) urban Atlanta nighttime thermal taken during the night by an airborne ATLAS instrument on May 11 and 12, 1997. This imagery is surrounded by Landsat Thematic Mapper data taken on June 27, 1998.
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I think you have left and right mixed up.
LOL so much for copypasting the NASA notes!


NC Crescent. The dark area that juts out into the Atlantic is the location of Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Image: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC
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The picture of Florida is pretty amazing (post #5). You have enough detail of Miami that the grids and major arteries can be identified while at the same time you can see the city lights of Cincinnati in the very top of the picture. The angle is incredible.
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