A group of researchers from NASA ’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Stanford University used NASA’ssatellite images to chart the growing of the Formosan uppercase city , and one of their more interesting findings was the astounding rate at which Beijing has grown during the last 10 eld .
The study , which also looked at some of the environmental effects(including changes in wind practice and warmer temperatures ) the urban center experienced because of its development , made another riveting find : See those large crimson and orange - y splotches palisade the city in 2000 , but that by 2009 had been overtaken entirely by the metropolis ’s spread ? That ’s no coincidence ; those were expanse that had been or were in the summons of being cleared out so that raw building could spread to the arena .
That same ring of red and yellow is surround the fresh re - sized Beijing of 2009 , which mean that , for as much of the city has grow in this decade , its expansion may only be getting started .

figure of speech : NASA / JPL - Caltech ,
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