Artificial structures visible from space without magnification include highways, dams, and cities.
The region around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as seen from the Russian space station Mir in 1997
Greenhouses in the province of Almería, Andalucía, Spain
Bingham Canyon Mine near Salt Lake City, Utah, from the International Space Station in 2007
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A factoid was originally defined to mean a false statement presented as a fact. In colloquial speech, it is often used to mean a true but brief or trivial item of news or information.
Artificial structures visible from space
…Great Wall is visible from the lower part of low Earth orbit, but only under very favorable conditions. Different claims were historically made for the factoid that the Great Wall is visible from the Moon. William Stukeley mentioned this claim in his letter dated 1754, and Henry Norman made the same claim in…
A common factoid is the incorrect claim that the Great Wall of China is visible from space with the naked eye.