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The World Archipelago, Persian Gulf
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Published March 26, 2009
This pair of images from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite show the development of the archipelago known as “The World.” The group of manmade islands is arranged to resemble a map of the world.
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Cathedral Fire, Wilson’s Promontory, Victoria
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Published March 19, 2009
The Cathedral Fire in Wilson’s Promontory National Park left a large burn scar across the landscape. This image of the burned area was captured on March 14, 2009, the day the fire was officially declared contained.
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Bushfires in Southeast Australia
Published March 18, 2009
East of Churchill, Victoria, a burn scar left by one of the deadly Australian bushfires in February 2009 sprawls across the landscape in this image captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite on March 14.
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El Paso, Texas
Published March 15, 2009
Though governed by separate countries, the cities of El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, merge into an apparently seamless metropolis in this satellite image, but vegetation is confined mostly to the United States' side of the border.
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Ashfall from the Karymsky Volcano
Published March 12, 2009
By early March 2009, Karymsky Volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula had stained the snowy white landscape charcoal-brown all the way to the coast.
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Northern Hokkaido, Japan
Published February 27, 2009
Sea ice formed delicate swirls of blue and white in the Sea of Okhotsk in February 2009.
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Bushfires around Marysville, Victoria
Published February 18, 2009
This false-color image shows the Killmore East-Murrundindi Complex North Fire in the Cathedral Range Mountains of Victoria, Australia, on February 17, 2009.
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