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ESA
- Earth from Space: Image of the week 03-Jan-2005
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Island Jumeirah, United Arab Emirates |
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- Image of the week
3 January 2005
Proba provides a close-up view from 600 kilometres away in
space of the massive artificial Palm Island Jumeirah, currently
taking shape in the Gulf of Arabia just off Dubai.
Designed as a prestige residential and relaxation area, the
reef-like complex is built in the shape of a palm tree: it
has a 17-frond crown around which is arranged a crescent,
the back of which serves as a breakwater. The crown is connected
to the mainland by a 300-metre bridge. Owners are due to begin
occupying their properties by the end of 2005.
The Jumeirah has been built from 80 million cubic
metres of land dredged from the United Arab Emirates'
Jebel Ali port, whose approaches are being deepened
to 17 metres. The Palm, Jumeirah is the first of
three Palm Island projects now taking shape. Swiftly
following it are the Palm Jebel Ali and the newest
and largest Palm Deira. Together the three Palms
are set to extend the country's coastline by around
200 kilometres.
This 7 December 2004
image was taken by Proba's High-Resolution Camera
(HRC), which acquires black and white 25-km square
images to a resolution of five metres.
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