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Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Published April 13, 2015
In Colombia, high mountains show a rare sight in the tropics: snow and ice.
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Cairo at Night
Published April 6, 2015
Home to one-fifth of Egypt’s population, it is the largest city in the Middle East and Africa’s second largest.
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Typhoon Maysak from the Space Station
Published April 1, 2015
To the astronauts, the eye of the storm seemed like a black hole from a sci-fi movie.
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Lake Chad and a Bodele Dust Plume
Published March 30, 2015
Desert meets woodland in Africa, punctuated by an ancient lake.
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Texas and the Gulf at Night
Published March 23, 2015
Cities, moonlight, and fossil-fuel industries frame the Gulf of Mexico with light.
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A Sign of Surging on Bivachny Glacier
Published March 17, 2015
The looping medial moraines on Tajikistan’s Bivachny glacier offer a clue of periods when it surged rapidly forward.
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San Diego
Published March 16, 2015
Astronauts flying on the International Space Station took this photograph of California’s southernmost coastal city.
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Volcanoes, Vog, and Vortices
Published March 9, 2015
Vog haze is transported hundreds of kilometers downwind of the Big Island of Hawaii, forming subtle but distinct alternating swirls.
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Djibouti and the Southern Red Sea
Published March 2, 2015
The nation is strategically positioned on one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, with access to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
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New Zealand in Sunglint
Published February 23, 2015
New Zealand is seldom photographed from orbit because it is one of the cloudier parts of planet, and because crew sleep periods often occur when the ISS passes over the area.
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Eastern Canada, Day and Night
Published February 16, 2015
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took these midwinter panoramas of the St. Lawrence River and surrounding cities.
Memphis, Tennessee
Published February 9, 2015
Set on bluffs above the muddy, flood-prone Mississippi River, the city has long been a crossroads of water-borne and land transportation in the heartland of America.