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Wildfire at Okanagan Lake, British Columbia
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Published August 13, 2009
A large burned area that is part of the Terrace Mountain Fire near Okanagan Lake is visible beneath patchy clouds in this natural-color iamge from August 9, 2009.
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Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Published August 9, 2009
Acquired September 12, 2001, this true-color image of Brooklyn shows two green oases in the middle of cityscape: Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Chernobyl, Ukraine
Published August 5, 2009
Twenty-three years after the explosion at Reactor Number Four, a NASA satellite glimpsed the remains.
Plume from Nyiragongo
Published July 29, 2009
Acquired July 28, 2009, this true-color image provides a relatively clear view of the summit of Nyiragongo Volcano as it releases a faint plume.
Carajás Mine, Brazil
The terraced layers of red earth that make up the Carajás Iron Ore Mine contrast with the deep green Amazon Rainforest in this cloud-free image.
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Published July 22, 2009
This true-color image shows a blue-gray plume blowing away from the bare-rock summit of Nyiragongo Volcano and toward the west-southwest on June 27, 2009.
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Flooding near Manaus, Brazil
Published July 17, 2009
In June 2009, the waters of the Amazon surrounded the villages near its confluence with the Negro River, seeping into the cleared land and filling what had been pale green angular shapes with murky brown water.
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