NADIR

Earth observation at half a metre. Six satellites, one orbit, looking straight down.

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  1. LENA DELTA

    72.86°N 126.12°E · DELTA

    The Lena is one of the great rivers of Siberia. Before it reaches the Laptev Sea it breaks into a delta of hundreds of channels and many thousands of small lakes, set in permafrost tundra.

  2. WADI AS-SIRHAN

    30.02°N 38.28°E · CROP

    In the Wadi As-Sirhan basin, centre-pivot irrigation draws circles on the desert: a sprinkler arm on wheeled towers turns around a well and waters everything it sweeps.

  3. EVROS

    41.08°N 26.02°E · FIRE

    In August 2023 wildfire burned through the Dadia forest and the hills around it in north-eastern Greece, one of the largest wildfires ever recorded in the European Union.

  4. SERMEQ KUJALLEQ

    69.17°N 49.93°W · ICE

    Sermeq Kujalleq, also known as Jakobshavn Isbræ, is one of the fastest-flowing glaciers in the world. It drains a large part of the Greenland ice sheet into the Ilulissat Icefjord, a UNESCO World Heritage site.