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Fires and Thick Haze in Central China
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Published May 29, 2007
Thick haze hung over central China on May 29, 2007. The haze was so thick that little of the landscape below is visible. The forested Dabie Mountains, an important source of bamboo in the country, stand out from the gray haze and the olive-colored plains to the north.
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Concepcion Volcano, Nicaragua
Concepción Volcano is one of the tallest and most active of Nicaragua’s volcanoes. The 1,610-meter (5,280-foot), cone-shaped volcano is the northern half of dumbbell-shaped Isla de Ometepe. To the northwest of the crater, a very faint plume (probably steam) creeps like fog down the mountain, blurring the sharp gullies that carve the volcano’s flanks.
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Monteregian Hills, Quebec, Canada
Published May 28, 2007
This astronaut photograph of the area to the east of Montreal, Canada, captures two striking patterns. The circular features are the central members of a group of unusual rock formations known as the Monteregian Hills: Mont St. Hilaire, Rougemont, and Mont Yamaska. The rectangular pattern blanketing the landscape in the background reveals the intensive agriculture in the fertile lowlands in southern Quebec.
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Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Published May 27, 2007
No battles were fought here, but it was still one of the most important landmarks of the American Revolution.
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Initiation of Rainy Season in Southern Amazon
Published May 26, 2007
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Smoke over eastern Canada
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Klyuchevskaya Volcano
Published May 25, 2007
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Seasonal Swings in Amazon Leaf Area
Published May 24, 2007
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Fires in Mexico and Central America
Published May 23, 2007
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Leaf Area Index, South America
The Amazon Rainforest is a tangle of multiple layers of vegetation stretching from the ground to the top of the forest canopy. Layer upon layer of leaves intercept sunlight, inhale carbon dioxide, and exhale oxygen and water vapor. In 2007, a team of scientists discovered that behind its evergreen exterior, the Amazon was hiding a seasonal secret: large, previously unknown swings in leaf surface area between the wet season and the dry season.
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Dust in the Taklimakan Desert
Published May 22, 2007
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Dust Plume off the Coast of Egypt
Dwarfing the Nile, a river of dust flowed out of the deserts of northern Egypt on May 19, 2007. This image of the dust shows it spreading northward over the Mediterranean Sea from the sandy deserts that span the country. At the margins of the plume, ribbons and ripples of dust are translucent, allowing a glimpse of the desert and water beneath, but in the center, the cloud is opaque, revealing nothing of the surface below.
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