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Tab of contents - Crystal Fire, Idaho - Lava eruption - Shrinking Aral Sea, central Asia

Chapter 2

- Topaz Solar Farm installation, California - Light pollution, Milan - Tropical Cyclone Mekunu fills Rub´ al-Khali desert with water

Chapter 3 - Lithium mining in Chile’s Atacama DesertL - Argentina flooding impacts soybean production - Rain swells rivers in Australia’s Channel Country March 11, 2018 - March 26, 2018 Time-based planets (after NASA)

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Chapter 1 - Crystal Fire, Idaho - Lava eruption - Shrinking Aral Sea, central Asia

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Cryst Crystal al Fi , Fi , Idaho Idaho August 8, 2006 - August 24, 2006

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This image represnets 10 miles west of Aberdeen in southeast Idaho and spread northeast toward Atomic City, consuming about 220,000 acres before being fully contained on August 31. In the August 8 image, taken before the fire, dark blue represents barren areas, including ancient lava flows. Craters of the Moon National Monument is just off the image to the northwest. In the August 24 image, the Crystal Fire has spread to nearly its maximum extent, creating newly barren areas which also appear dark blue.

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La Lav va a e ption e ption in in V Va atnajö , tnajö , Iceland Iceland September 6, 2014 - January 3, 2015

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Since August 2014, lava has gushed from fissures just north of Vatnajökull, Iceland’s largest glacier. As of January 6, 2015, the Holuhraun lava field had spread across more than 84 square kilometers (32 square miles), making it larger than the island of Manhattan. Its thickness is estimated to range from about 10 to 14 meters (33 to 46 feet). The eruption shows signs of slowing down but could continue for years.

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Sh n ng Sh n ng A l A l Sea, Sea, cent l cent l Asia Asia

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August 25, 2000 - August 19, 2014

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The Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake in the world. The black outline shows the approximate coastline of the lake in 1960. By the time of the 2000 image, the Northern Aral Sea had separated from the Southern Aral Sea, which itself had split into eastern and western lobes. A dam built in 2005 helped the northern sea recover much of its water level at the expense of the southern sea. Dry conditions in 2014 caused the southern sea’s eastern lobe to dry up completely for the first time in modern times. The loss of the moderating influence of such a large body of water has made the region’s winters colder and summers hotter and drier.

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Chapter 2 - Topaz Solar Farm installation, California - Light pollution, Milan - Tropical Cyclone Mekunu fills Rub´ al-Khali desert with water

October 30, 2011 - January 2, 2015

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This Solar Farm is one of the largest in the U.S., is a 550-megawatt power station that can produce enough electricity to power 160,000 homes. It consists of 9 million solar panels across 9.5 square miles (24.6 square kilometers). Construction began in 2012 and was completed in late 2014. The 2011 image shows that the land had been used for agriculture (green blocks). The 2015 image shows the solar installations as dark blocks. This second image also displays less overall greenness because of seasonal change.

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Light Light poution, poution, Milan Milan

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2012 - 2015

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This image shows the effection of cities replace their older street lighting with LED lamps . In the 2012 image, the illumination level of central Milan is similar to that of its suburbs. In the 2015 image, taken after the transition to LEDs in the city’s center, the light there is noticeably brighter and bluer, further limiting the ability to see stars from within the city.

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May 13, 2018 - May 29, 2018

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The Rub´ al-Khali, which spans the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula, is the world’s largest continuous sand desert and one of the driest places on Earth. But when Tropical Cyclone Mekunu passed over the region in May 2018, rainwater pooled in the lowlands between the sand dunes, something that hadn’t happened for about 20 years. Water appears blue and turquoise in the second of these false-color images, which contrast the desert before and after the storm.

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Chapter 3 - Lithium mining in Chile’s Atacama DesertL - Argentina flooding impacts soybean production - Rain swells rivers in Australia’s Channel Country March 11, 2018 - March 26, 2018

Lithium Lithium mining mining in in Chi ’s Chi ’s A At tacama acama DesertL DesertL

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Dec. 28, 1991 - Jan. 4, 2018

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Lithium is a key ingredient in many rechargeable batteries and Chile’s Atacama Desert contains the world’s largest deposit of lithium that is economically practical to recover. Miners retrieve it by pumping lithium-rich brine from underground to evaporation ponds on the surface, where the lithium salts dry out. These images show the increase in evaporation ponds from 1991 to 2018. The lighter the shade of blue, the greater the concentration of lithium salts in the pond.

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Argentina Argentina f oding f oding

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January 2, 2015 - January 23, 2017

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Heavy rains in late December 2016 and early January 2017 affected soybean production in Argentina’s bread-basket provinces and influenced soy prices worldwide. Rainfall is common in northeastern Argentina from December to February, but the Landsat 8 satellite’s Operational Land Imager (OLI) captured dramatic flooding in the January 2017 image (right), compared to the flood-free January 2015 image. Argentina’s Rosario Grains Exchange reported that the event damaged nearly 4 million acres of soybeans in the world’s third-largest soybean exporting country.

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March 11, 2018 - March 26, 2018

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In March 2018, days of heavy rain upstream swelled the Hamilton, Diamantina, and Thomson Rivers in Australia’s Channel Country, a desert region known for becoming lush with greenery after floods. These images use a combination of infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. .

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Maryam Ashkaboosi is the second-year MFA student at the art, technology, and emerging communication department of the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research interests are interactive In programming, March 2018, days of art, heavy upstream swelled the art, sound andrain abstract art. She performed Hamilton, Diamantina, andarts Thomson in Australia’s some research on installation and triedRivers to develop new ideas Channel Country, a desert region known for becoming and artworks in this field as well. At this stage, her main concerns contrast between land. lush with greenerywater after and floods. These images use awarming cominclude sustainability artworks; she comments on global bination of infrared and visible light to increase the by using advanced techniques and technologies in art, to increase the awareness of her viewers. Ashkaboosi is also interested in spherical time as one of the most effective techniques in art. To attract more audiences to her artworks, she is interested in depicting her projects with holographic techniques in the physical form.

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