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Polar Mesospheric Clouds
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Published August 13, 2007
In June 2007, the Space Shuttle crew visiting the International Space Station (ISS) observed spectacular polar mesospheric clouds over north-central Asia. TThe red-to-dark region at the bottom of the image is the dense part of the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Madre de Dios Watershed
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Published February 10, 2007
In 2004, a small group of freshwater conservation biologists at World Wildlife Fund who were studying the Madre de Dios River in the southwestern Amazon found a creative way to locate rivers. The team used high-resolution topographic maps based on radar data collected by the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2000 to map how water would flow across the landscape. This image shows the result of their efforts, including elevation, river channels, and watershed boundaries.
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Magnitude 6.3 quake in central Java
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Published June 6, 2006
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Magnitude 6.1 Earthquake, Silakhor, Iran
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Published April 14, 2006
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Mt. Manaro Volcano, Ambae Island
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Published January 7, 2006
Aoba Volcano is the dominant feature in this shaded-relief image of Ambae Island, part of the Vanuatu archipelago.
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Tarawa and Maiana Atolls
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Published December 29, 2005
he Republic of Kiribati is an island nation consisting of some 33 atolls near the equator in the central Pacific. Before Europeans found the islands, they had been inhabited for two millennia by indigenous Micronesians. In 1820, the British named the islands the Gilbert Islands, after Captain Thomas Gilbert, who discovered some of the atolls in 1788. The islands eventually gained their independence in the 1970s.
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Earthquake in Eastern Africa
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Published December 5, 2005
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Topography of Popocatépetl
Published December 3, 2005
The topography of Popocatépetl exhibits the classic cone shape of a stratovolcano.
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