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Central Park museums, GeoEye-1 satellite image. North is at top. This area is in the southern end of Central Park, a large park in New York City, USA. At upper left is the American Museum of Natural History. At upper right is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Baseball diamonds (yellow) are on Great Lawn at upper centre. Between the museums is Turtle Pond (green). Bethesda Fountain (red) is at lower left. Image data obtained on 10 August 2009. The US-operated GeoEye-1 satellite was launched in September 2008, and orbits at a height of 680 kilometres. It is the world's highest resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GEOEYE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)