Fall colors swept across the Mid-Atlantic during October 2012.
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As temperatures cool, deciduous trees in Siberia are making their annual transformation.
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Cooler temperatures and shorter days have transformed Pennsylvania’s forests.
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In autumn, the leaves on deciduous trees change colors as they lose chlorophyll, the molecule that plants use to synthesize food.
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Leaves are changing color along the Carpathian Mountains in Romania.
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Beneath a collection of contrails, colorful foliage spreads across a mountain landscape in the eastern U.S.
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A process that occurs on a micro scale in trees shows up on a macro scale in satellite imagery.
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In northern Sweden, bursts of fall color fill valleys before the darkness of winter descends.
Brilliant orange leaves paint the mountains of northern Pennsylvania in this natural-color image acquired on October 13, 2010.
Leaves change from green to orange and brown across the United States and Canada.
Peak autumn colors have arrived in some parts of the eastern United States and Canada.
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Green hues dominated the Persian Gulf days after a dust storm in the region.
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The colors may not look as brilliant as the reds and golds you would see on the ground, but even from space, the difference between the summer and fall attire of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic is dramatic.
Time transforms the ranges in the southern Appalachian Mountains through the course of a year.
Long blue shadows on the snow portend frigid days ahead in this far eastern corner of Siberia.
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