Earth From Space: Floating city, originally uploaded by europeanspaceagency.
The islands that make up the Italian city of Venice and the surrounding Venetian Lagoon are pictured in this image. Snaking through the central districts is the Grand Canal, with the Santa Lucia train station at its northern end and the Saint Mark Basin at its southern end. Zooming in, we can see water buses and taxis navigating the canal and gondolas docked along the edge. The square island to the north is San Michele. Once a prison island, it became a cemetery when Napoleon’s occupying forces declared burial on the main islands unsanitary.
This image was acquired on 22 June 2008 by Ikonos-2, a commercial satellite that provides panchromatic and multispectral high-resolution imagery. ESA is supporting Ikonos-2 as a Third Party Mission, which means that the Agency uses its multi-mission European ground infrastructure and expertise to acquire, process and distribute data from the satellite to its wide scientific user community.
High resolution versions of this image can be found at: www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM44R0UDSG_index_1.html
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I love Venice! But the last time i was there, it was so crowded, that it makes me feel very tired trying to cross it, and i decided to pass my time at Lido an Burano, instead. It is better visit Venice in autumn or spring. When the mist covers the city, you feeel like living in another century.
This is very true! I went to the Christmas Market in Brussels last year and there were more english there than any other!
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