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Coral Reefs
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Coral Reefs

Published Oct 25, 2000

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Exploring Reefs from Space
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Exploring Reefs from Space

An image of Fiji’s coast shows how modern satellites can help study underwater corals even in the most remote regions.

Published Jul 4, 2015

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Seeing the Reef for the Corals
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Seeing the Reef for the Corals

Studying corals from above could help scientists understand how these critical ecosystems will weather a changing climate.

Published Jan 31, 2016

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Fringing Reef, Mayotte
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Fringing Reef, Mayotte

Published Mar 14, 2001

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A Better Eye on Reefs
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A Better Eye on Reefs

Landsat 8 takes a look at Princess Charlotte Bay, Australia, where reefs, river plumes, and sandy islands test the satellite's ability to observe the intersection of land and sea.

Published Jun 16, 2013

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Coral Atolls
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Coral Atolls

Published May 1, 2001

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Growth of Hurghada, Egypt
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Growth of Hurghada, Egypt

Over just a few decades, this Red Sea settlement has morphed from a small village into a haven for tourists.

Published Jan 15, 2015

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Palau’s Reefs
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Palau’s Reefs

The island nation has more coral reef than land.

Published Dec 15, 2012

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Cabarete Bay, Dominican Republic
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Cabarete Bay, Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea. The island has a variety of ecosystems ranging from arid plains to tropical rain forests created by three roughly parallel east-west mountain ranges. The northernmost of these ranges, the Cordillera Septentrional, is visible in this astronaut photograph as the dark green region north of the river. Clearcut regions within the Cordillera Septentrional are visible as irregular light green regions interspersed with dark green forested areas.

Published Aug 9, 2004

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Cuba’s Gulf of Guacanayabo
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Cuba’s Gulf of Guacanayabo

Sediments flowing into the bay from the Río Cauto have built up an impressive delta and even helped bury a reef.

Published Jul 6, 2020

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Still Sandy After All These Years
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Still Sandy After All These Years

In 2002, Earth Observatory published one of the site’s most popular images: the Great Bahama Bank. Eighteen years later, the science has advanced but the sand has not.

Published May 14, 2020

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Above and Under the Red Sea
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Above and Under the Red Sea

This unique photograph of shallow Red Sea waters off the coast of Saudi Arabia gives us a glimpse of both the coral reefs under the surface, and the texture and movements of surface waters. On the left side of the image we see through the water column to the reefs below the surface. On the right side of the image, the sun reflects off of microscopic oily films formed by a combination of natural biological sources and human activities on the sea surface. The films are concentrated by surface water movements and variably dampen surface capillary waves, which effect how the sun’s light is reflected. This creates patterns of brighter and darker reflections when viewed from orbit. These patterns trace the complex surface water dynamics along the coast.

Published May 11, 2003

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