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California Coast, Los Angeles to San Diego Bay
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Published December 15, 2008
This hand-held astronaut photo shows urban areas and fault-related topographic features from San Bernardino, California, to Tijuana, Mexico.
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Deriba Caldera, Sudan
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Published December 8, 2008
In this astronaut photograph, a pair of jewel-toned lakes sit in the Deriba Caldera on top of Mount Marra Volcano in western Sudan. Shadows throw the steep southern wall of the outer crater into sharp relief.
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Cities of the Dead, Nile River Delta, Egypt
Published December 1, 2008
This detailed astronaut photograph illustrates a portion of the Nile Delta that includes two royal cemeteries, Abusir and Saqqara-North.
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Great Divide, Rocky Mountains, Colorado
Published November 24, 2008
This astronaut photograph highlights a portion of the Great Divide in the Rocky Mountains approximately 31 kilometers due west of Boulder, Colorado.
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Hell’s Half Acre Lava Field, Idaho
Published November 17, 2008
The Hell’s Half Acre Lava Field is the youngest and easternmost lava flow associated with the Snake River Plain basalts.
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Arkenu Craters, Libya
Published November 10, 2008
The Arkenu Craters in northern Africa are one of only a few pairs of double impact structures identified on Earth.
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Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado
Published November 3, 2008
This astronaut photograph illustrates the unusual man-made landscape of the Pueblo Chemical Depot located near the city of Pueblo, Colorado.
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Desert Erosion, A Modern Libyan Landscape
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Published October 27, 2008
This detailed astronaut photograph shows the classic patterns of an eroded desert landscape, about 300 kilometers (190 miles) south of Libya’s Mediterranean coast.
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Coronado Island and the Gulf of California, Mexico
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Published October 20, 2008
Located in the Bahia de los Angeles, Isla Coronado sits in the Gulf of California, just off the eastern shoreline of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. The island is approximately 7 kilometers long, and it is dominated by Volcan Coronado on the northern end.
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Sandy Cape, Fraser Island, Australia
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Published October 13, 2008
Fraser Island, the world’s largest sand island, is located along the coastline of Queensland, Australia, and it includes Great Sandy National Park. The island was designated a World Heritage site in 1992, in part due to its outstanding preservation of geological processes related to sand dune formation.
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Bouvet Island, South Atlantic Ocean
Published October 6, 2008
Bouvet Island is known as the most remote island in the world; Antarctica, over 1600 kilometers (994 miles) to the south, is the nearest land mass. Located near the junction between the South American, African, and Antarctic tectonic plates, the island is mostly formed from a shield volcano—a broad, gently sloping cone formed by thin, fluid lavas—that is almost entirely covered by glaciers.
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Tunis, Tunisia
Published September 22, 2008
The urban area of Tunis is located on a flat coastal plain, and is distinguished in this astronaut photograph from the surrounding desert by the pattern of grey and tan buildings and the dark street grid. The city is bordered by an evaporating saline lake to the northeast known as Sebkhet Arina (upper left).
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