File:How Cancún Grew into a Major Resort.jpeg
Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 213 pixels | 640 × 426 pixels | 1,024 × 682 pixels | 1,280 × 853 pixels | 1,734 × 1,155 pixels.
Original file (1,734 × 1,155 pixels, file size: 468 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
 | This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. |
Summary
| Description | The imageabove shows Cancún on April 11, 2019. The images were acquired by the the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. In the late 1980s, Cancún’s population registered around 120,000. A census report in 2015 conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported around 740,000 people. Most of the hotels are located on a 27-kilometer (17-mile) stretch of beach known as the Hotel Zone. |
| Date | |
| Source | https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146194/how-cancun-grew-into-a-major-resort |
| Author | NASA image by Allison Nussbaum, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kasha Patel. |
Licensing
|
This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.) |  |
 |
Warnings:
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 03:15, 26 May 2021 | | 1,734 × 1,155 (468 KB) | StellarHalo | {{Information |Description=The image pair above shows the growth of Cancún between March 28, 1985, and April 11, 2019. The images were acquired by the Thematic Mapper (TM) on Landsat 5 and the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, respectively. In the late 1980s, Cancún’s population registered around 120,000. A census report in 2015 conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported around 740,000 people. Most of the hotels are located on a 27-kilometer (17... |
File usage
The following page uses this file:
