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Tijuana and the Mexico-U.S. Border
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Published July 24, 2017
The city is one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in Mexico and site of the busiest international land-border crossing in the world.
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Chilko Lake
Published July 17, 2017
Occupying a valley carved by glaciers, the remote lake dominates Ts’yl-os Provincial Park in British Columbia.
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Washington on the Potomac River
Published July 10, 2017
Wedged between Maryland and Virginia, the District of Columbia was established in 1790 to serve as the permanent seat of the U.S. federal government.
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Western Cape Fires on the Outeniqua Mountains
Published July 3, 2017
In June 2017, astronauts aboard the International Space Station were asked to take photographs of widespread wildfires on South Africa’s mountainous southern coast.
Lights On and Over the Southern Horizon
Published July 2, 2017
An astronaut caught a glimpse of the aurora australis while looking out across the Indian Ocean.
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Coal Mines, Eastern Germany
Published June 26, 2017
An astronaut managed to capture the size and detail of the artificial landscape that results from strip mining.
Fish Ponds and Rice Fields, Lower Guadalquivir River
Published June 19, 2017
Along the delta of the Guadalquivir River, fish farming takes a more natural course.
Eastern New Orleans
Published June 12, 2017
Known as the rural side of New Orleans, the landscape is largely marshes and bayous and old European names.
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Meidob Volcanic Field
Published June 5, 2017
This geologically young volcanic field in western Sudan has nearly 700 vents and craters.
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Drainage Patterns and Wind Farms in Northwest China
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Published May 29, 2017
Turbines and alluvial fans scratch out shapes across the flat landscape.
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Corinth Canal
Published May 22, 2017
This passage through the Peloponnese Peninsula was 2500 years in the making.
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Burlington, Iowa, and the Mississippi Floodplain
Published May 15, 2017
The city has a commanding view of the fertile and well-vegetated river basin and plain.
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