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Scientists Locate Penguins by What They Leave Behind
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Published June 5, 2009
A guano stain betrays the location of an emperor penguin colony on Antarctic ice in this Landsat image from December 4, 2002.
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Yosemite National Park
Published May 31, 2009
Naked summits alternate with forested lowlands in Yosemite Valley in this image acquired on August 18, 2001.
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Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
Published March 8, 2009
This natural-color image of Hells Canyon was captured by NASA’s Landsat-7 satellite on September 19, 2002. The image shows the northern part of the canyon, where the Imnaha River joins the Snake River.
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Aquaculture and Salt Production near Bo Hai, China
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Published February 8, 2009
China’s Bo Hai coast is one example of the rapid expansion of aquaculture in the late twentieth century.
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Porcupine Gorge, Queensland, Australia
Published January 18, 2009
Porcupine Gorge and other sandstone canyons carving through a basalt plateau create dramatic topography in central Queensland.
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Mount Mabu, Mozambique
Published January 11, 2009
In 2005, researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew stumbled upon secret: a little-known forest in northern Mozambique.
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Yellow River Delta, China
Published January 4, 2009
China’s Yellow River, or Huang He, travels through soft plateaus of silt, picking up a massive sediment load on its journey. The sediment carried by the river has reshaped China’s coast, adding several hundred square kilometers of land.
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Tagula Island, Louisiade Archipelago
Published January 2, 2009
Scattered like turquoise and emeralds across the dark blue waters of the Coral and Solomon Seas, the coral reefs and forested islands of the Louisiade Archipelago stretch southeastward from the tip of Papua New Guinea for over 350 kilometers.
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Manantali Reservoir, Mali
Published December 28, 2008
The Bafing River travels through Guinea and Mali, and eventually joins with the Senegal River in western Africa. In the 1970s, drought struck the region, prompting a multinational effort to develop irrigation and power generation.
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