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A pirate ship cruises the Playa during the Burning Man 2014 "Caravansary" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada in 2014.
- Burning Man is taking place this week in the Nevada desert for nearly 80,000 attendees to enjoy a nine-day party made up of interactive art, music, elaborate costumes, and community.
- On the day the event started, August 25, a satellite captured photos of the massive temporary city set up in the desert, and the flourish of attendees that swarmed the event area.
- Check out these of birds-eye photos of Burning Man, which is so vast that it can be seen from space.
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Nearly 80,000 people have swarmed to a temporary city set up in the middle of the Nevada desert for a 30-year-old annual tradition known as Burning Man.
Burning Man welcomed attendees to its site - dubbed Black Rock City - starting this past weekend for the nine-day festival. Thousands set up campers and tents as they prepared for a week of partying and enjoying art. The celebration culminates with the burning of an effigy, known as "the Man."
The Black Rock City "playa" is enormous. So big, in fact, that it can be seen from space. A satellite, belonging to space technology company Maxar Technologies, captured images of the Burning Man site on the day it welcomed attendees, and the photos show just how much of a production the festival is each year.
Take a look at some of the images taken from space of Burning Man 2019: