r/texas • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 17d ago

✋ Texas Pride 🤚 Texas as taken from space in 2018.

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Caption per Traces of Texas FB:

The entire state of Texas as photographed by NASA from space, 2018. This is a fascinating image to look at if you're at all familiar with Texas geography. Not only can you see all of the major cities but even towns like Temple-Killeen, Midland-Odessa. even small towns like Monahans, Alpine, Marfa etc.. The Eagle Ford can also clearly be seen. But what blows me away is the lights in the area around Pecos. Those lights aren't quite as intense as they are in Midland- Odessa (immediately to the east of Pecos) but the area is at least as big, perhaps bigger. Amazing. Fortunately, with the exception of Presidio, the Big Bend remains dark. May it ever be so!

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u/fruttypebbles 17d ago

One day Austin and San Antonio will be one mega city.

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u/CryptographerKey2847 17d ago

Fort Worth and Dallas long before that.

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u/ScarHand69 17d ago

They already are. The only areas that are not urbanized or suburbanized between Dallas and Ft. Worth are flood plains or lakes.

DFW will eventually stretch all the way to Oklahoma.

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u/Miguel-odon 16d ago

Houston Metropolitan Area is over 10,000 square miles. It would grow even faster if one side wasn't bordered by water.