Satellite eye on Earth: November 2011 - in pictures
Cloud streets in Canada, underwater volcanoes in the Atlantic and oil sands in Alberta were among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month
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The intertidal Wadden Sea and two shallow, artificial lakes in the Netherlands. Visible in the image is the Afsluitdijk – a causeway that creates a division between the Wadden Sea to the north and the former Zuiderzee bay to the south. After the dyke was built, the Dutch were able to reclaim land from the sea – like the lighter coloured areas in the lower-central part of the image
Photograph: Landsat/ESA
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