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Providence, Rhode Island, USA, combined infrared and visible satellite image. North is at top. The city of Providence is the blue area at centre, on the northwestern edge of Narragansett Bay. This bay opens onto Rhode Island Sound (lower right), part of the Atlantic Ocean. At lower left is the northeastern tip of Long Island, New York State. At far right is the base of the Cape Cod peninsula in Massachusetts. The large blue expanse at upper right is the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Rhode Island is the smallest state of the USA. Photographed by Landsat 1 on 8th October 1972. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/MDA INFORMATION SYSTEMS)