Astronauts use the Sun’s reflection point to reveal features that are otherwise difficult or impossible to see.
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As moisture-filled thunderhead clouds expand upward through the atmosphere, they can hit a more stable layer and flatten into an anvil shape.
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The peninsula is highly recognizable even at night, especially when looking north, as our map-trained brains expect.
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A photograph by an astronaut leads us to a teachable moment about what’s in our air.
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This astronaut photograph shows these sister cities on the Rio Grande, the second largest metropolitan area on the Mexico–U.S. border.
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Recent fires burned away the vegetation cover of desert scrub to reveal a sheet of white sand and barchan dune patterns.
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For millennia, the river has been the most important water supply in the western Sahara Desert.
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The hometown of a 2014 World Series contender is brimming with baseball history.
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This wide-angle panorama shows a huge swath of the western United States from Portland to Phoenix.
Distinct colors mark the communities and commerce along the Tsushima Strait, between Japan and South Korea.
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This protected area on North Island is centered around a volcano and sits on a promontory that juts out into the Tasman Sea.
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Two images show the region before and during a vast a dust storm.
Astronauts caught a glimpse of rainforest being cleared for agriculture in Brazil.
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A massive dust storm filled the skies over Libya in early September 2014.
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Researchers are deploying a mix of airborne and orbiting tools to unlock secrets of the most potent storms on Earth.
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Changing conditions in the waters near Alaska promotes late summer phytoplankton growth.
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PMCs have become brighter and thicker and have appeared farther south in recent years.
Different air flow patterns at low and high altitudes provoke compelling cloud features over Indonesia.
Off the northwestern coast of Australia, the sound has the second greatest daily tidal change in the world.
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Strange spike patterns on the Siberian landscape caught the attention of astronauts on the ISS.
The bright lights of the cities are intersected and offset by the dark valley of the Jordan River and Dead Sea.
Astronauts captured an oblique view of the island that includes Haiti and the Dominican Republic as a wildfire raged in a national forest.
This shallow, saline lake in Iran is one of the largest in the Middle East. But drought and water withdrawals for farming are shrinking it.
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This wetland in the interior of Botswana is an oasis for biodiversity in the midst of the arid Kalahari Desert.
Sunglint provides compelling light for the coastlines of northern Europe.
Transcripts from the flight to the Moon capture some of the wonder and novelty of looking back at Earth.
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The great peninsula of Greece reaches into the Mediterranean and forms a crossroads with history.
Strong, hot winds known as “berg winds” (mountain winds) are lofting plumes of dust directly out into the Atlantic Ocean in this panoramic image taken from the International Space Station.
Hurricane Arthur is forecast to strengthen and graze or strike the Outer Banks of North Carolina tonight as a Category 2 hurricane.
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