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Dust storm in eastern Australia
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Published November 30, 2006
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Northern Africa Fire Season
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Published November 29, 2006
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Plume from Karymsky Volcano
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Contrails Over the Midwest
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Haze over Eastern China
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Published November 28, 2006
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Ash Plume from Mount Etna
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Fires in Northern Territory and Queensland
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Published November 27, 2006
Dust off Northwestern Africa
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Galveston, Texas
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Galveston Island has alternately been a home to Native Americans, a base for Mexico’s rebellion against Spain, a pirate kingdom, a sea port, and even the capital of the Republic of Texas. In September 1900, the city was largely destroyed by a powerful hurricane. This storm damage, combined with construction of the Houston Ship Channel and discovery of oil in eastern Texas, shifted the center of trade northwest to Houston. This astronaut photograph shows some of the human impacts in Galveston that are easily observed from the vantage point of low-Earth orbit. The city of Galveston dominates the eastern half of Galveston Island, appearing as the gray-white region at center right. A large seawall along the Gulf of Mexico—shown here along the southern coastline of Galveston Island—protects most of the city. To the west of Galveston, coastal wetlands are largely submerged by regional subsidence—sinking of the land as a result of ground water withdrawal by the petrochemical industry of Houston and Texas City.