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LiveScience Staff
Date: 24 August 2005 Time: 03:01 AM ET
This satellite image from July 2000 shows a 37-mile (60-km) stretch of the Yangtze River. At left is the construction site of the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest. The reservoir is expected to be filled in 2012.
CREDIT: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
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