20070516 NASA: Four Centuries at Jamestown

NASA: Four Centuries at Jamestown

May 16^th, 2007

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On May 14, 1607, a group of London-based entrepreneurs and accompanying laborers, collectively known as the Virginia Company, made landfall at Jamestown, VA., establishing the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States.

In May 2007, the United States celebrated Jamestown’s 400th Anniversary, commemorating the experiences of the European settlers, Native Americans, and Africans whose lives and cultures intersected in the earliest years of the American colonies.

NASA joined the celebration to honor the spirit of exploration that runs as a common thread throughout human history, honoring the anniversary with this image taken by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite.

In this image, the water of the James River appears pale green…

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Careful studies have pieced together the environment that greeted the Virginia Company. When the first settlers arrived, what is now Jamestown Island was a peninsula, and sea level was about 1 meter (3 feet) lower than today…

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