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|  |  |  |  | | | Proba-1 overview
| | | |  | The island of San Benedicto is the third largest of the four volcanic islands that make up the Revillagigedo Islands, located in the Pacific Ocean, south of the tip of Baja California Peninsula. ESA’s Proba satellite acquired this image on 18 February 2006 with its Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS).
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| | | |  | This HRC image acquired 17 October 2003 shows the sandy coastline between Normandy and Brittany and the quasi-island of Mont St. Michel, upon which a Benedictine monastery is sited. At high tide the island is separated from the mainland by a kilometre of water.
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| | | |  | The French Frigate Shoals, highlighted in this ESA's Proba-1 image, is an atoll consisting of a 35-kilometre crescent-shaped reef surrounding a dozen small islets located in the Pacific Ocean about 800 kilometres northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.
The image was acquired on 9 January 2006 with Proba's Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS), designed to acquire hyperspectral images with a spatial resolution of 17 metres across an area of 13 kilometres.
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| | | |  | Proba HRC image of the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, acquired 20 March 2004. The three main pyramids seen consist of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Pyramid of Kafhre and the Pyramid of Menkaura. They stand on the border of Greater Cairo at the verge of the desert.
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| | | |  | Proba captures manmade islands located just off the coast of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Palm Jumeirah (left) is the smallest of three massive palm-shaped islands, and The World is a collection of 300 islets built in the shape of a world map. Image acquired on 5 November 2007 by ESA’s Proba’s CHRIS (Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) instrument.
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