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Venice, Italy, seen from satellite. 2001.

auteur: Nasa/GSFC/Novapix

référence: t-euita-00002

Image Size 300 DPI: 30 * 35 cm

Venice stretches out across numerous small islands in a marshy lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeastern Italy.The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of the Po (sth) and Piave (nth) Rivers. This image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on the Terra satellite shows the watery city, using false-color image enhancements that bring out the details of water and vegetation. The heart of Venice is on the island known as the Rialto, the largest island in the lagoon, which is just southwest of the center of this scene. The city is somewhat protected from the open sea by a row of sandbanks known as the Lido (east of Rialto), however, the city is continually under threat of flooding and erosion, and has been experimenting with tidal control measures for more than a thousand years.

Keywords for this photo:

2001 - ADRIATIC SEA - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - EUROPE - ITALY - SATELLITE IMAGE - SEA - TERRA - UNESCO - VENICE - WATER - WORLD HERITAGE -