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Bowknot Bend
Published March 17, 2014
The Green River in eastern Utah once carved soft sediment into meanders on a floodplain. Then the land and mountains rose and the river dug deep, preserving those meanders in stone.
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Ice stringers, Lake Michigan
Published March 10, 2014
Southwesterly winds pull strands of land-fast ice out into the lake from Washington Island and Detroit Island.
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Southern Patagonia Ice Field
Published March 3, 2014
Straddling the southern Andes Mountains in Chile and Argentina, these glaciers have thinned significantly in the past four decades.
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The Koreas at Night
Published February 24, 2014
Night lights illustrate dramatically the relative economic activity of cities and countries.
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Gas Flaring in Iraq
Published February 22, 2014
An astronaut snapped this image of lines of gas flares at an oilfield in southern Iraq at night.
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Prince Albert, Western Cape, South Africa
Published February 20, 2014
This small town at the foot of the Swartberg Mountains is a productive oasis in the Karoo semidesert, rich with olive groves, sheep and ostrich ranches, and (lately) tourists.
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Sochi at Night
Published February 17, 2014
Astronauts who held the Olympic flame just three months ago now look down on it from space.
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Possession Island, East Island, and cloud patterns
Published February 10, 2014
Small islands in the Crozet Archipelago of the southern Indian Ocean disturb the air flow above.
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Apoyeque Volcano, Nicaragua
Published February 3, 2014
Two volcanic calderas dominate Nicaragua’s Chiltepe Peninsula, not far from Managua.
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Hawaii
Published January 29, 2014
The Island of Hawaii is a vast canvas of environments from desert shores to rain forests to frozen mountain heights.
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Western Sahara Desert, Mauritania
Published January 27, 2014
Dry mesas and dunes, as well as rare clouds, give color and texture to a plateau in the Sahara.
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Making Sense of Nepal’s Seti River Disaster
Published January 24, 2014
Twenty months after a slurry of debris swamped villages and killed dozens of people, scientists have pieced together the events that caused the deadly flood.
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