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Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park of Canada
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Published August 23, 2009
Acquired August 29, 2001, this true-color image of Yoho National Park shows a landscape of naked ridges, forested slopes, meandering rivers, and jewel-toned lakes.
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Hurricane Bill (03L) off the East Coast
Published August 22, 2009
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Fires in southern Greece
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Barents Sea in Bloom
This image of the summer phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea off the northwesternmost corner of Russia was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on August 19, 2009. The milky-blue color that dominates the bloom suggests that it contains large numbers of phytoplankton called coccolithophores.
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Plume from Kilauea’s Halema’uma’u Crater
Published August 21, 2009
Acquired August 19, 2009, this true-color image shows a ghostly gray-blue plume blowing from the Halema'uma'u Overlook vent on the Kilauea Volcano. While the land surface around the vent is devoid of vegetation, plants apparently thrive to the east.
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Hurricane Bill (03L) off Bermuda
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Smoke over the Pacific Northwest
Acquired August 19, 2009, this true-color image shows thick smoke from fires in southern British Columbia clouding skies over Vancouver, Seattle, and Spokane. The image also shows a dramatic transition in land cover between eastern and western Washington.
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Hurricane Bill
Published August 20, 2009
Hurricane Bill's spiraling clouds sprawl across hundreds of kilometers northeast of Puerto Rico in this image from August 20, 2009.
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Typhoon Vamco
Typhoon Vamco has a small, distinctive eye defined by a wall of clouds in this photo-like image from August 20, 2009.
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Hurricane Bill (03L) north of the Lesser Antilles, Atlantic Ocean
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Ship-wave-shaped wave clouds induced by Kerguelen Island, South Indian Ocean
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Typhoon Vamco (11W) in the Pacific Ocean
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