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Korean Demilitarized Zone
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Published December 24, 2008
The DMZ offered an opportunity to protect an environment that sees little human impact. Satellite imagery, however, reveals multiple burn scars of varying age.
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Volcanoes on Baja California Peninsula
Published December 23, 2008
This natural-color image from the Landsat satellite on October 5, 2000, shows El Aguajito Caldera, Las Tres Vírgenes, and La Reforma Caldera on the Baja Peninsula.
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Urban Heat Island: Baltimore, MD
Published December 20, 2008
Maps of land surface type and temperature for Baltimore, Maryland, reveal the tight relationship between development and the urban heat island effect. Land temperatures in the densely developed city center are as much as 10 degrees Celsius higher than the surrounding forested landscape.
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Sebkhat El Melah, Tunisia
Published December 7, 2008
Along Tunisia’s southeastern coast is a flat plain of about 150 square kilometers (58 square miles) that lies below sea level. Known as Sebkhat El Melah (or Sebkha El Melah), it is in an evaporite basin.
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