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Giens Peninsula, France
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Published January 11, 2010
This astronaut photograph from December 2, 2009, shows urban areas around the Giens Peninsula, on the French Riviera.
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Evaporation Ponds, Salar de Atacama, Chile
Published January 4, 2010
This astronaut photo from December 15, 2009, shows evaporation ponds in the Atacama Desert, where brines are evaporated to concentrate lithium salts.
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Sand Dunes in the Tenere Desert, Niger
Published December 28, 2009
Layers of dunes march across a sand sea in the east-central Tenéré Desert of Niger in this astronaut photo from December 1, 2009.
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Cloud Formations and Sunglint, Italy
Published December 21, 2009
An extreme sideways viewing angle and the mirror-like reflection of sunlight off water creates a dramatic astronaut photo of clouds over Italy’s Calabrian Peninsula.
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Lake Ilopango, El Salvador
Published December 14, 2009
This astronaut photo shows the blue-green waters of Lake Ilopango, which fills the caldera of a volcano in El Salvador that last erupted in 1879.
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Published December 7, 2009
An astronaut captured this photo of the historic stretch of southern coastline of Oahu.
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Ounianga Lakes, Sahara Desert, Chad
Published November 30, 2009
This astronaut photograph features one of the largest of a series of ten mostly fresh water lakes in the Ounianga Basin in the heart of the Sahara Desert of northeastern Chad.
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Savage Islands, Atlantic Ocean
Published November 23, 2009
Bright white waves break along the fringing beaches of the Savage Islands in these astronaut photos from October 22, 2009.
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Upsala Glacier, Argentina
Published November 16, 2009
Upsala Glacier in the Southern Patagonian Icefield calves icebergs into Lake Argentina in this astronaut photo from October 25, 2009.
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