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Take a virtual field trip with Google Earth! Google Earth is a free, online application that uses satellite imagery to allow the user to zoom across the globe in a realistic, virtual environment. Downloading Google Earth is free at http://www.earth.google.com. An overview manual is available by clicking here... Google Earth Overview (342.0K)
To continue: - Make sure you have the Google Earth software installed and running. - Copy the following latitude and longitude and paste into the "Fly to" field under the Search tab. - Hit "Enter" for Google Earth to take you to the specified coordinates, then come back here and read the following overview.
Latitude/Longitude: 33.7376, -116.356
If you find this desert urbanization intriguing, try searching for Salton City, mid-way down the western shore of the Salton Sea. This is a city whose streets were all laid out and given optimistic and amusing names, but few structures were ever built there.
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