A collection of satellite images featuring disasters, big events and interesting places in different countries worldwide.

Costa Concordia, Giglio, Italy - January 17, 2012: A luxury cruise ship ran aground in the Tuscan waters off of Giglio, Italy on Friday, January 13, 2012.

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This is a satellite image of an ongoing landslide affecting the area near San Pedro, California.

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The Hajj, an annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is the largest pilgrimage in the world. More than 2.5 million Muslims are expected to perform this religious duty from November 4-9, 2011.

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Bangkok, Thailand

Locals are park their vehicles loaded with belongings on overpasses to protect them from flood waters.

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This is a false color DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring the wildfire burning outside Bastrop, Texas.

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This is a natural color, high-resolution DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring flood damage at the Pico Ski Lodge in Killington, Vermont, following Hurricane Irene.

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This is a natural color, high-resolution DigitalGlobe satellite image of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida.

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This is a natural color, high-resolution DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring the Gaddafi compound in Tripoli, Libya.

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This is a natural color, high-resolution DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring flooding at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant.

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This is a false color DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring massive flooding along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, near Cairo, Illinois.

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This is a natural color, DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring the damage of a tornado that struck Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on April 27, 2011.

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Breidamerkurjökull Glacier, Iceland

Worldwide glacier monitoring with DigitalGlobe partner Extreme Ice Survey.

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This is a natural color, high-resolution DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring the aftermath of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Japan's coast on March 11, 2011.

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Maker Abior, Abyei, Sudan

This is a natural color, high-resolution satellite image featuring burned structures at Maker Abior.

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In collaboration with the Satellite Sentinel Project, this is a natural color, high-resolution DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring the human security situation in the Abyei region of Sudan.

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This is a natural color, high-resolution DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring severe flooding in Brisbane, Australia.

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This is a natural color, high-resolution DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring damage following the eruption of Mount Merapi, Indonesia.

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This is a natural color, high-resolution DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring damage following a toxic spill in Ajka, Hungary.

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San Francisco, California

This is a natural color, high-resolution DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring the Golden Gate Bridge and Toll Plaza.

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This is a natural color, DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring The Pearl, a man-made island near Doha, Qatar.

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Rangoon, Burma (Yangon, Myanmar)

This is a natural color, high-resolution DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring the Shwedagon pagoda and surrounding area.

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This is a natural color, high-resolution DigitalGlobe satellite image featuring farmland surrounding Lefaux, France.

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This is an enhanced satellite image of the oil spill and clean up effort in the Gulf of Mexico. This image leverages the different sensor bands of our WorldView-2 satellite to highlight the oil and dispersant.

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This is a satellite image of the Solucar PS10 and PS20 solar power towers near Seville, Spain.

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This satellite image is of Ferrari World, a theme park on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.

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São Paulo, Brazil

This is a natural color, high-resolution DigitalGlobe WorldView-2 satellite image featuring the Pinheiros River and the Octavio Frias de Oliveira bridge.

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Aftermath of Port-au-Prince earthquake, Haiti.

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This is a natural color, high-resolution WorldView-2 satellite image featuring the port city of Takamatsu, on the island of Shikoku, Japan.

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Rome, Italy

This is a natural color, high-resolution WorldView-2 satellite image featuring the Baths of Caracalla, built between 212 and 216 AD.

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This is a natural color, high-resolution QuickBird satellite image featuring China's parade commemorating the 60th anniversary since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

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Hoover Dam, Nevada

This is a Panchromatic, high-resolution WorldView-1 satellite image featuring the Hoover Dam and the construction site for the U.S. 93 Colorado River Bridge.

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This is a natural color, QuickBird satellite image featuring the municipality of Los Cabos on the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula.

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