The city has a commanding view of the fertile and well-vegetated river basin and plain.
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A saddle-shaped mountain distinguishes a region that carries a heavy economic load for Mexico.
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A nearly uninterrupted string of lights stretches from Philadelphia to Hartford.
The landscape near the southern Murray River contrasts fertile farmland with dry lakes.
There is nothing rotten about this view of the Scandinavian nation that thrives amidst cold northern waters.
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Straddling Austria and Hungary, the lake is also known as the “Sea of the Viennese.”
Standing beside floodplains and wetlands, the highlands are packed with farms.
Winter traces white and blue across the high country.
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The volcano produced streams of lava in March 2017.
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Much of the land surface is covered by salt evaporation ponds and a saline lake known as Town Pond, around which the capital—Cockburn Town—developed.
Shelterbelts, or wind breaks, are used to protect and preserve farmland in southern Russian.
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Millennia of human development stand alongside mainland Europe’s only active volcano.
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The International Space Station got a view of the overflowing dam.
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The usually dry, inland lake in Australia came alive with color after flood waters arrived in the late summer of 2017.
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Salt and algae lend color to the bed of this desert lake in Iran.
Ancient monasteries and settlements dot these islands in the middle of Ethiopia’s largest lake.
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Australia’s second-largest city has an historic past.
Astronauts on the Space Station had a glowing view of their professional home, as well as the site of Super Bowl 51.
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Lands along the Priest River show a human hand at work.
One of the largest reservoirs in the United States stands alongside one of the largest national monuments.
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This lagoon along the Brazil-Uruguay border formed when sea level was much higher, and has since evolved from a marine to freshwater lake.
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An astronaut photographed the interplay of light and wind on South America’s largest lake.
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Different farming patterns mark various attempts to grow crops on the dry North African landscape.
Salt and wind have painted a colorful, swirling landscape in the highlands of central Chile.
This ancient rock is one of Australia’s major tourist attractions and a sacred place for indigenous people.
Situated on the Idaho-Utah border, it is one of the bigger lakes in the Rocky Mountains.
Hundreds of lakes and ponds dot this inland delta in Argentina.
Thin layers of lighter and darker blues reveal the many layers of the atmosphere.
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These white mounds are the world’s largest gypsum dune field, centerpiece of the White Sands National Monument.
Dunes grow upon dunes at one of the most visually spectacular places on Earth, at least from an astronaut’s perspective.