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Cupola Over the Caribbean
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Cupola Over the Caribbean

Clouds trace the islands and color variations trace the seafloor.

Published Sep 20, 2020

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Great Exuma Island, Bahamas
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Great Exuma Island, Bahamas

For astronauts, this is one of the most recognizable points on the planet.

Published Sep 21, 2015

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Water Turbidity in the Bahamas
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Water Turbidity in the Bahamas

Published Sep 8, 2004

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Tidal Flats and Channels, Long Island, Bahamas
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Tidal Flats and Channels, Long Island, Bahamas

The islands are situated on large depositional platforms composed mainly of carbonate sediments and ringed by reefs.

Published Jan 3, 2011

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Cat Island, Bahamas
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Cat Island, Bahamas

Once named San Salvador, the island may be where Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the Americas.

Published Mar 21, 2011

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Little Bahama Bank
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Little Bahama Bank

The shallow seas allow us to see vivid details of how waves, winds, and tides shape the islands.

Published Nov 7, 2016

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Water Turbidity in the Bahamas
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Water Turbidity in the Bahamas

Published Sep 8, 2004

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Savai‘i and Upolu in Sunglint
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Savai‘i and Upolu in Sunglint

Samoa’s two largest islands, made by volcanoes, have productive reefs and fertile soils.

Published Sep 30, 2018

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An Island Carved by Water
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An Island Carved by Water

The movement of water and sand constantly re-sculpts Long Island’s shoreline.

Published May 2, 2017

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Kerguelen Islands
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Kerguelen Islands

Located in the southern Indian Ocean roughly midway between Africa, Australia, and Antarctica, the Kerguelen Islands experience a fierce climate, with incessant, howling winds and rain or snow nearly every day. At a latitude of about 49 degrees South, the islands lie in the path of the “Furious Fifties,” a belt of westerly winds that whip around the Southern Hemisphere, mostly unimpeded by land.

Published Mar 6, 2007

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Grand Turk Island
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Grand Turk Island

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.

Published Mar 20, 2017

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Ocean Sand, Bahamas
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Ocean Sand, Bahamas

Tides and ocean currents have sculpted the sand and seaweed beds into multicolored, fluted patterns.

Published Sep 13, 2002

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Beautiful Cuba
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Beautiful Cuba

Civilization’s footprint on this Caribbean island has been relatively light.

Published Dec 15, 2018

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Lenses of Fresh Water Under Langeoog
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Lenses of Fresh Water Under Langeoog

Lenses of fresh water float above the heavier saltwater underlying the sandy island.

Published May 19, 2015

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Lakshadweep Islands
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Lakshadweep Islands

Lakshadweep’s coral atolls glow iridescent blue-green in this natural-color scene from February 2012.

Published Apr 15, 2012

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Kerguelen Islands
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Kerguelen Islands

Penguins, seals, and scientists are among the residents of a remote archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean.

Published Dec 28, 2016

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Tarpum Bay, Bahamas
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Tarpum Bay, Bahamas

Published Oct 23, 2002

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Phytoplankton Enlivens Swaths of Barren Ocean
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Phytoplankton Enlivens Swaths of Barren Ocean

Even dozens of kilometers away, microscopic creatures from these reefs can breathe life into nearby waters.

Published Dec 20, 2016

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Bloom around the Chatham Islands, New Zealand
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Bloom around the Chatham Islands, New Zealand

A large phytoplankton bloom colors the water around the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, in an array of green and blue in this image from December 5, 2010.

Published Dec 9, 2010

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