Brasilia, Brazil, satellite image. Brasilia was built between 1956 and 1961 to be the new capital city of Brazil. It was designed to have specific are

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Brasilia, Brazil, satellite image. Brasilia was built between 1956 and 1961 to be the new capital city of Brazil. It was designed to have specific areas for a single use, such as the hotel sector and the embassy sector. Brasilia was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987 due its modernist architecture, much of it designed by Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012). Image obtained by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite.

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Photo credit: © NASA/GSFC/METI/Japan Space Systems/U.S.,Japan ASTER Science Team/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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