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A dry, tan-colored valley containing a few circular irrigated fields runs roughly north-south through the image.

NASA Earth Observatory / Lauren Dauphin

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Grid-like arrays of solar panels cover parts of a valley floor in a brown, dry-looking area of Utah.

NASA Earth Observatory / Lauren Dauphin

June 16, 2024 June 6, 2026

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A dry, tan-colored valley containing a few circular irrigated fields runs roughly north-south through the image.

NASA Earth Observatory / Lauren Dauphin

Grid-like arrays of solar panels cover parts of a valley floor in a brown, dry-looking area of Utah.

NASA Earth Observatory / Lauren Dauphin

June 16, 2024

June 6, 2026

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The nearly one million photovoltaic panels of a solar energy and battery storage facility in Utah appear in the right image, acquired with the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 on June 6, 2026. The same sensor captured the left image on June 16, 2024. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin.

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Historically, central Utah’s Castle Valley has been a coal hub, with mining operations on the slopes of the Wasatch Plateau to the west active since the la…