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Syr Darya River Overflows
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Syr Darya River Overflows

Published Feb 13, 2004

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Power Plant Monitoring
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Power Plant Monitoring

Published Apr 28, 2001

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Estevan Coalfield and Power Plants, Saskatchewan
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Estevan Coalfield and Power Plants, Saskatchewan

Snow and ice serve to accent human activities in this photograph taken by the Space Shuttle mission STS-98 crewmembers on February 17, 2001. The Souris River stretches across the photograph from left to right, with the upstream Rafferty Dam Reservoir frozen over on the far left. Two power plants, the Boundary Dam Power Station and the Shand Power Station, can be identified by the smoke plumes and shadows of those plumes. The river is frozen over upstream of the Boundary Dam Power Station, but thermal loading from the plants has warmed the water in the Boundary Dam Reservoir so that it remains nearly ice free. Downstream of the reservoirs, thermal loading is sufficient to maintain open flow in the Souris River.

Published Mar 18, 2001

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Wheatland Reservoir, Wyoming
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Wheatland Reservoir, Wyoming

Winter traces white and blue across the high country.

Published Mar 27, 2017

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Eastmain Reservoir, Quebec
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Eastmain Reservoir, Quebec

Acquired May 19, 2011, this natural-color scene shows a work-in-progress hydroelectric project along the Rupert River in Quebec, Canada.

Published Aug 7, 2011

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Floods in the U.S. Midwest
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Floods in the U.S. Midwest

Published Jun 26, 2008

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Kiev, Ukraine
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Kiev, Ukraine

Published Mar 19, 2006

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Floods on the Yellow River
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Floods on the Yellow River

Published Mar 26, 2008

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Chernobyl, Ukraine
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Chernobyl, Ukraine

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear power accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the Ukrainian-Belarus border. Toxic radionuclides like Cs137 and Sr90 contaminated an area of 155,000 square kilometers in what is today Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed, sickened from radiation-induced illnesses, or resettled to uncontaminated land. This image, taken from the Russian Mir spacecraft, shows Chernobyl and the surrounding countryside.

Published Apr 26, 2004

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Ice on the Dnieper River, Ukraine
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Ice on the Dnieper River, Ukraine

Authorities keeps a watchful eye on ice near a key dam on the Kyiv Reservoir.

Published Mar 31, 2012

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Breakup Along the Mackenzie River
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Breakup Along the Mackenzie River

Each spring, the Canadian Arctic is the site of a fierce battle between water and ice.

Published Jun 8, 2020

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Puerto Rico Goes Dark
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Puerto Rico Goes Dark

A power plant fire left much of the island without electricity.

Published Sep 23, 2016

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Mackenzie Bay, Antarctica
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Mackenzie Bay, Antarctica

Ghostly blue-green in Antarctica’s Mackenzie Bay likely owes its existence to a complicated mix of cold temperatures and changing water pressure.

Published Feb 23, 2012

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