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Mecca From Above
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Published February 16, 2025
Urban structures and the city’s Great Mosque stand out amid the hilly, desert landscape of western Saudi Arabia.
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A Pair of Hearts
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Published February 14, 2025
One frozen, one salty, and hemispheres apart, two very different lakes share a Valentine shape.
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Snowcapped Mount Damavand
Published February 9, 2025
The dormant volcano in northern Iran lies in the Alborz Mountains, which separate the region’s wet coastal lowlands from the deserts toward the south.
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Colorful Tampa Bay
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Published February 2, 2025
Florida’s largest open-water estuary is known for its shallow, calm, blue-green waters.
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Bustling Boddington
Published January 26, 2025
A multitude of mining and agricultural activities surround the Western Australian town, southeast of Perth.
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Madagascar’s Ambohiby Complex
Published January 19, 2025
The concentric rings of an ancient, extinct volcanic system stand above the island nation’s relatively flat central highlands.
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Cairo’s Colorful Nightscape
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Published January 12, 2025
The older and newer cities of the Greater Cairo region look very different at night when viewed from above.
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Ksudach’s Nested Calderas and Craters
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Published January 5, 2025
The volcano, located on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, displays numerous depressions that collect meltwater during the warmer months of the year.
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Magnificent Moon
Published January 1, 2025
In November 2024, an astronaut captured a striking photo of the Moon as it lingered just above Earth’s horizon.
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Iraq’s “Sea of Salt”
Published December 29, 2024
Water levels were low in Razazah Lake when an astronaut snapped this photograph from the International Space Station.
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Towering Cloud Over The Arabian Peninsula
Published December 21, 2024
An astronaut photographed the structure of a burgeoning cumulus congestus near the shore of the Persian Gulf.
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