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   July 4, 2022 - Chesapeake Bay   
      
      Chesapeake Bay   
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      The Chesapeake Bay, stretching about 200 miles (322 km) along the East   
      Coast of the United States, is the largest estuary in the U.S. as well   
      as the third largest estuary on Earth. The narrowest point of the Bay   
      is only 4 miles (6.4 km) near to Aberdeen, Maryland and close to the   
      inflow of the Susquehanna River at the northern end of the estuary. The   
      Chesapeake Bay widens towards the Despite its large size, the   
      Chesapeake Bay is quite shallow, averaging only 21 feet (6.4) meters.   
      However, deep channels thread the Bay, allowing deep water passage for   
      more than 2,000 cruise ships and cargo vessels that utilize the Port of   
      Baltimore each year. The ports of Baltimore, Annapolis, and Hampton   
      Roads are three of the major ports along the shores of the Chesapeake,   
      but hundreds of smaller ports are utilized by industry, agriculture,   
      recreational fishing, recreational boating, and working watermen.   
      
      On June 29, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer   
      (MODIS) on board NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image   
      that showed a slice of the central Chesapeake Bay.   
      
      The large group of gray pixels near the top of the image west of the   
      blue waters of the Chesapeake Bay marks the Washington, D.C. metro   
      area, which includes not only the District of Columbia but also part of   
      Maryland (north) and, south of the Potomac River, includes Fairfax,   
      Alexandria, and Chantilly, Virginia. A smaller swatch of gray near the   
      top of the image along the western shoreline of the Bay marks   
      Annapolis, Maryland, the capital city of Maryland. Annapolis also   
      served as the capital of the United States from 1783-1784.   
      
      Directly across the Bay from Annapolis is Kent Island, which serves as   
      the gateway to the Eastern Shore for many Marylanders as they cross the   
      Chesapeake Bay Bridge on weekend beach getaways. The cantilever bridge   
      was built in 1952, consists of two spans with five lanes, and stretches   
      4.35 miles from the Western Shore northeast of Annapolis to Kent   
      Island. At high resolution, the Bay Bridge (formally named the Gov.   
      William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge), can be visualized as a faint   
      line.   
      
      The portion of the Eastern Shore captured in this image is divided   
      almost equally between Maryland and Delaware. The region is heavily   
      agricultural with less population density than the Western Shore. A   
      wide variety of crops, including watermelon, corn, potatoes, and   
      soybean, are grown in the rolling, fertile fields and poultry farms are   
      also abundant. In the northeastern corner, along the northern Delaware   
      Coast, the dark waters belong to the Delaware Bay, a smaller estuary.   
      In the far east, the white sands mark the Atlantic Ocean beaches of   
      southern Delaware.   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Terra   
      Date Acquired: 6/29/2022   
      Resolutions:  1km (163.4 KB),  500m (411 KB),  250m (241.1 KB)   
      Bands Used: 1,4,3   
      Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-07-04   
       
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