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Raikoke Erupts
Published June 24, 2019
An unexpected series of blasts from a remote volcano in the Kuril Islands sent ash and volcanic gases streaming high over the North Pacific Ocean.
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Viewing Venus from the Space Station
Published June 23, 2019
With sixteen sunrises and sunsets, astronauts have a lot of chances to see our nearest solar system neighbor.
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Ship Tracks, Aleutian Islands
Published June 16, 2019
Exhaust creates cloud lines that trace the curved trajectories of ships.
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Amistad Reservoir
Published June 9, 2019
When full, the lake is the second largest in Texas.
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Flathead Lake, Montana
Published June 2, 2019
Located within the Rocky Mountain Trench, it is one of the largest freshwater lakes west of the Mississippi River.
Northern California Coastline
Published May 26, 2019
The climate of Humboldt County is persistently wet, with legendary fog that has helped the trees and the military.
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Glint of the Irrawaddy Delta
Published May 19, 2019
Sunlight traces the mouth of one of Asia’s great rivers—a major artery for commercial and sediment transport.
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A Wide View of Luzon
Published May 12, 2019
Astronauts caught a rare, mostly clear glimpse of the largest island in the Philippines.
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Guinea-Bissau, the Sahel, and the Sahara Desert
Published April 21, 2019
From space station altitude, astronauts can see several different climate zones in a single view.
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Coal and Cattle in Southern Queensland
Published April 7, 2019
The Surat Basin has 150 million-year-old sediments, four billion tons of proven thermal coal resources, and a bunch of cows.
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Wet and Dry Morocco
Published March 17, 2019
Westerly winds from the Atlantic Ocean carry moisture into the region, but the Atlas Mountains act as a weather barrier between coastal grasslands and wetlands and the Sahara Desert.
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Grand Canyon Under Snow
Published March 10, 2019
The Grand Canyon is one of the best known natural wonders on Earth, but astronauts see very different patterns compared with the iconic ground-based views.