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Midwestern USA at Night with Aurora Borealis
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Published October 24, 2011
When viewed from the International Space Station, the night skies are illuminated with light from many sources.
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Parinacota Volcano, South America
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Published October 17, 2011
Volcan Parinacota is a potentially active stratovolcano located on the Altiplano, a high plateau in the Andes mountains.
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Fires along the Rio Xingu, Brazil
Published October 10, 2011
This astronaut photograph illustrates slash-and-burn forest clearing along the Rio Xingu (Xingu River) in the state of Matto Grasso, Brazil.
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Bigach Impact Crater, Kazakhstan
Published October 3, 2011
Bigach Impact Crater in northeastern Kazakhstan is about five million years old—long enough to be reshaped by geologic process, erosion, and human activity.
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Fire in the Sky and on the Ground
Published September 27, 2011
Astronauts on the International Space Station captured these views of the aurora australis and wildfires in Australia.
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Hurricane Katia off the Northeastern US Coastline
Published September 26, 2011
Viewed from the space station, Hurricane Katia presented an impressive cloud circulation as its center passed the northeastern coast of the United States on September 9, 2011.
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Sand Dunes, Junggar Basin, Northwestern China
Published September 19, 2011
This photograph taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station highlights a sand dune field within the Burqin-Haba River-Jimunai Desert near the borders of China, Mongolia, Russia, and Kazakhstan.
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Melt Ponds, Petermann Ice Island
Published September 17, 2011
Petermann Ice Island A still behaves like the massive ice sheet it left 14 months ago.
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Owens Lake, California
Published September 12, 2011
California’s Owens Lake was once part of a much larger lake and river system during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 3 million to 12,000 years ago).
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