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Sustaining Seven Billion People
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Published December 9, 2011
Figuring out how to sustain the world’s growing population is a challenge that satellites can help resolve.
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Satellites Track Yellowstone’s Underground Heat
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Published December 8, 2011
Landsat instruments have peered into the hot-water plumbing beneath some of the park’s famous monuments.
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Salar de Atacama, Chile
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Published November 29, 2011
In perhaps the driest place on Earth, water still shapes the landscape.
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Oulu, Finland
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Published November 27, 2011
Today, Finland’s coastal city of Oulu is subarctic. A little over 11,000 years ago, it was buried by ice.
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Polynyas and the Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
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Published November 18, 2011
Three polynyas—circular areas free of sea ice—provide tantalizing clues as to why Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier is melting at an astonishing 100 meters per year.
Old Volcano, Older Footprints
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Published October 12, 2011
Acquired September 15, 2000, this natural-color image shows Aniakchak National Monument in Alaska, home to an old caldera, and even older fossils.
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