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It is the largest of a series of dams along the two major rivers of the region, the Tigris and Euphrates, which both have their headwaters in southeastern Turkey. It was built both to generate electricity for the region and to irrigate the plains between the Euphrates and the Tigris. In this triplet of Landsat images, the dramatic growth of the Ataturk Dam Lake in the space of 19 years is quite apparent. The newly formed lake, sometimes referred to as a sea by locals, covers some 817 square kilometer in total surface area. When the dam and its associated irrigation channels were finished, agriculture in the Harran Plains expanded. Crops such as cotton could now be grown in the dry season, where previously irrigation was limited to borewater . || ", "hits": 157 }, { "id": 30193, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30193/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-17T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dust Storm in the Middle East", "description": "Dust from Syria and Iraq blows toward the northwest across Turkey and the easternmost Black Sea on July 30, 2011, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image. Dust forms a giant arc extending from northern Iraq across Turkey and the easternmost Black Sea. The northeastern tip of the dust plume appears to push into western Georgia. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 2210, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2210/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-08-02T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat Witnesses the Destruction of Mesopotamian Ecosystem", "description": "In one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time, the ancient marshlands of Mesopotamia are systematically being converted to dry salt flats as a result of human mismanagement of the region's water resources.Landsat satellite imagery reveals that in the last 10 years, wetlands that once covered as much as 20,000 square km in parts of Iraq and Iran have been reduced to a small fraction of their original size. The authors of a new report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) at the 11th Stockholm Water Symposium on August 13, 2001, warn that the marshlands could completely disappear within the next 3-5 years unless dramatic steps are taken immediately to reverse the damage being done.The UNEP Executive Director described the wetlands' condition as 'a major environmental catastrophe that will be remembered as one of humanity's worst engineered disasters.' He noted that 'the tragic loss of this rare wetland has occurred in approximately the same period since world leaders pledged to safeguard the environment at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Earth Summit) held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.' Regarded by historians as one of the cradles of civilization, the Mesopotamian Fertile Crescent has supported Marsh Arab society for millennia. But through the damming and siphoning off of waters from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the countries of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria have decimated the ecosystem and, with it, a culture rooted in the dawn of human history (dating back to ancient Sumeria about 5,000 years ago). || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 321, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/321/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-06-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Flyover of Istanbul", "description": "A flyover of Istanbul using Landsat imagery from April, 1980 || a000321.00010_print.png (720x480) [439.7 KB] || a000321_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || a000321_pre.jpg (320x238) [7.7 KB] || a000321_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [51.8 KB] || a000321.webmhd.webm (960x540) [3.5 MB] || a000321.dv (720x480) [106.3 MB] || a000321.mp4 (640x480) [6.1 MB] || a000321.mpg (352x240) [3.3 MB] || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 322, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/322/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-06-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Zoom into Istanbul", "description": "Zoom into Istanbul, using Landsat imagery from April, 1980 || a000322.00010_print.png (720x480) [470.6 KB] || a000322_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || a000322_pre.jpg (320x238) [7.4 KB] || a000322_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [53.1 KB] || a000322.webmhd.webm (960x540) [2.2 MB] || a000322.dv (720x480) [66.1 MB] || a000322.mp4 (640x480) [3.7 MB] || a000322.mpg (352x240) [1.8 MB] || ", "hits": 45 } ] }