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U.S. Atlantic Seaboard at Night
Published May 23, 2011
One of the largest conurbations in the world is located along East Coast of the United States, and stretches from Boston to Washington.
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River Deltas, Lake Ayakum, Tibet
Published May 9, 2011
This astronaut photograph highlights two river deltas along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Ayakum, near the northern boundary of the Tibetan Plateau.
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Sunset over Western South America
Published April 25, 2011
The changeover between day and night is marked by the terminator, a line on Earth's surface separating the sunlit side from the darkness.
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Bassas da India in Sunglint
Published April 18, 2011
A photograph of an uninhabited atoll in the Indian Ocean has an almost surreal quality due to varying degrees of sunglint.
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One Pinnacle of Human Achievement to Another
Published April 13, 2011
Astronauts on flight STS-1 captured this view of the Tigris and Euphrates through a viewport on the space shuttle during its first flight in April 1981.
Irrigation along the Shebelle River
Published April 11, 2011
The Shebelle River has its headwaters in the Ethiopian Highlands, and transports water and sediment 1,000 kilometers to the southeast across Ethiopia and into Somalia.
Two Low Pressure Systems, Northeastern Pacific
Published April 4, 2011
In these astronaut photographs from the ISS cupola, two distinct cyclonic vortices whirl within an area of low pressure that spanned the Pacific coast from southern California to Vancouver Island.
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Central Tien Shan, China
Published March 28, 2011
This astronaut photograph provides a view of the central Tien Shan mountains east of where the borders of China, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan meet.
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Cat Island, Bahamas
Published March 21, 2011
Once named San Salvador, the island may be where Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the Americas.
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Tsunami Damage Viewed for the Space Station
Published March 15, 2011
Taken March 13, 2011, this astronaut photograph shows the Japanese coast north of the city of Sendai, in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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Milan at Night
Published March 14, 2011
Milan, the largest city in Italy, is one of Europe’s major transportation, industrial, and commercial hubs, and a global center of fashion and culture.
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Médano Blanco Coastal Dunes, Argentina
Published March 7, 2011
Narrow cordons of coastal dunes stretch for hundreds of kilometers along Argentina’s coast, including the Médano Blanco dunes near the arid and windy border of Patagonia.
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