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Nardo Ring, Italy
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Nardo Ring, Italy

The Nardò Ring is a striking visual feature from space, and astronauts have photographed it several times. The Ring is a race car test track; it is 12.5 kilometers long and steeply banked to reduce the amount of active steering needed by drivers. Although it is a perfect circle, it appears oval in this photograph. This distortion is because the astronaut’s viewing angle was 35 degrees, looking back along the orbit track to the southwest from the International Space Station’s window.

Published Sep 10, 2007

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Glory Over Pacific Ocean Clouds
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Glory Over Pacific Ocean Clouds

On May 20, 2008, a deck of clouds over the Pacific Ocean provided an optical display for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. The ring-shaped, rainbow-like phenomenon, known as a glory, appears through the length of the center of this image.

Published Jun 5, 2008

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Ring of Gullion, Northern Ireland
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Ring of Gullion, Northern Ireland

A rocky ring of hills in Northern Ireland rises from green farmland in this Landsat image, revealing the ancient geology of the island.

Published Oct 9, 2010

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Kuwait City at Night
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Kuwait City at Night

The patterns and colors of lighting reveal the urban geography of the capital city.

Published Sep 17, 2012

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Kondyor Massif, Russian Far East
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Kondyor Massif, Russian Far East

In eastern Siberia, a perfect circle of rock contrasts with the surrounding topography. The 6-kilometer- (3.7-mile-) wide ring looks like an impact crater, or the caldera of an extinct volcano, but it is neither. Kondyor Massif was formed by the intrusion of igneous, or volcanic, rock that pushed up through overlying layers of sedimentary rock, some of them laid down more than a billion years ago.

Published May 25, 2008

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New Island in the Ring of Fire
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New Island in the Ring of Fire

The EO-1 satellite captures a view of the new volcanic island that formed in November 2013 near Nishino-shima Volcano.

Published Dec 18, 2013

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The Solar Ring of Fire
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The Solar Ring of Fire

Earth-observing satellites follow the shadow of an annular eclipse.

Published Mar 2, 2017

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Riyadh at Night
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Riyadh at Night

The capital city of Saudi Arabia has grown dramatically in the last half century.

Published Dec 3, 2012

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The Roses of Wasco
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The Roses of Wasco

About 40 percent of America’s rose plants come from a small town northwest of Bakersfield, California.

Published Mar 8, 2013

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A Ring of Green Around Surgut
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A Ring of Green Around Surgut

Changing temperatures and development are altering the vegetation around this city in West Siberia.

Published Apr 25, 2018

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Mount Vesuvius, Italy
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Mount Vesuvius, Italy

Published Dec 28, 2000

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Circuit Paul Ricard
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Circuit Paul Ricard

The famous track in southeastern France has hosted the Grand Prix fifteen times.

Published Sep 11, 2018

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Alluvial Fan in Southern Iran
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Alluvial Fan in Southern Iran

A dry river channel carves through the Zagros Mountains in southern Iran and spreads out across the valley floor in a silvery fan. A broad belt of lush agricultural land follows the curve of the alluvial fan.

Published Dec 2, 2008

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