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Cancun, Mexico

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Feb 22, 2004
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Known for its beaches and resort hotels, Cancun lies at the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Inland from this tourist mecca, however, lies a sparsely populated tropicalscrub forest that shelters the ruins of ancient Mayan cities.

This scene was acquired by the ASTER instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite on September 28, 2000.

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Image provided by the USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch as part of the Earth as Art II image series

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