Clouds trace the islands and color variations trace the seafloor.
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Carved out by ancient glaciers, this portion of the coastal Andes is rich with glacial fjords, complex shorelines, active volcanoes, and marine life.
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The inland sea in central Asia has a distinct circulation.
Nestled in a river valley in the Allegheny Mountains, the city first attracted weary travelers, who then stayed for the salt, trees, and coal.
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This marine wonder off of Belize is rich with mystery and biodiversity.
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The colors and altitude are often the same, but the atmospheric processes are different.
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Bright lights of these coastal cities of China are sandwiched between mountains and the sea.
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The combination of stable, ancient dunes and water channels displaying both braided and cross-connecting patterns make this region a planetary analogue for Mars.
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The area is known for its extreme dryness and dangerous heat records. However, traces on the land indicate that water sometimes flows here.
In July 2020, sky gazers on Earth and on the International Space Station had a front row seat to one of the brightest comets in decades.
The wandering river is a boon to farming, but it has no interest in state borders.
One of the smaller lakes of the East African Rift is rich with mud, fish, and geologic beauty.
The Olympic Peninsula, Cascade Mountains, and Salish Sea caught the eye of an astronaut on the space station.
Bright shades of white and yellow light up the geographic and political heart of Turkey.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot a photograph of the Moon’s shadow crossing the Earth on June 21, 2020.
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An array of sandy colors paint the landscape around the capital and port city.
The play of sunlight on water gives definition to the jagged coastlines of Sardinia and Corsica.
Two inland deltas spring from the landscape near the confluence of the Blue and White Niles.
A commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft has safely delivered two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.
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The largest lake on the Balkan Peninsula is colored by sediments eroded from the surrounding highlands.
Divided by the Danube River, the city is actually a unification of three different older communities.
Clouds formed over rural areas and the cities but are noticeably absent above Guanabara Bay and the ocean due to the mechanisms of cloud formation.
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Dust storms are common in the region, and sometimes bear resemblance to weather events on Mars.
An ISS astronaut using a short camera lens captured almost all of Mexico in one shot.
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From late February to early March in most years, the winter cold freezes much of the surface area of the lakes. But not so much in 2020.
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The Susquehanna River cuts through the folds of the Valley-and-Ridge province of the mountain chain.
Despite sporadic rainfall, the island is the occasional home of two of the larger bodies of water in Hawaii.
Earth’s third-highest summit, Kangchenjunga, rises more than 8500 meters above sea level along the border of Nepal and India.
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