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Wildfires, Tasmania

Satellite images such as this one, depicting wildfires in Tasmania, Australia, can be used to track and visualize threats to the natural environment.

Credit: DigitalGlobe/Getty

Samapriya Roy remembers when it would take him up to an hour to download a single 1-gigabyte image taken by the Landsat Earth-imaging satellites. 

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