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Deforestation in Malaysian Borneo
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Published September 10, 2009
Acquired May 27, 2003, this true-color Landsat ETM image shows part of a plantation in Malaysian Borneo, along the edge of the forest. The area outlined in white in the ETM image appears in greater detail in the image acquired on June 18, 2002, by the commercial satellite Ikonos. The images show the differences between forest, cleared land, and palm plantation.
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Gettysburg National Military Park
Published February 12, 2009
Soldiers’ National Cemetery, where U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the “Gettysburg Address” in November 1863, appears in this Ikonos satellite image from June 25, 2003.
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Old Faithful
Published November 30, 2008
Yellowstone National Park’s Old Faithful Geyser erupts so reliably—every hour on the hour—you can set your watch by it. So goes the legend, but it’s not true.
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Assateague and Chincoteague Islands, Virginia
Published October 28, 2008
This photo-like image of Chincoteague Island and the southern section of Assateague was acquired by the IKONOS satellite on June 27, 2001.
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Red Rocks in Glacier National Park
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Published August 21, 2008
Geologically recent events sculpted the rocks of Glacier National Park into sharp mountain peaks and steep-walled valleys.
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Mississippi River Floods Gulfport, Illinois
Published June 26, 2008
A wall of water washed over the small riverside city of Gulfport, Illinois, when at least two levees on the flooded Mississippi River burst on June 18, 2008, reported CNN. Only treetops and a few roofs were visible above the surface of the blue-green water two days later on June 20, when the commercial satellite Ikonos captured this detailed photo-like image.
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Coal Sludge Impoundments, West Virginia
Published April 25, 2008
Since the mid- to late 1990s, the number and size of coal mines known as mountaintop removal mines increased dramatically in parts of Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. The final step in processing this coal creates sludge that contains coal dust, sediment, and possibly heavy metals and chemicals. Mine operators contain the coal sludge in nearby valleys, behind huge earthen dams known as valley fills.
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Edmund Hillary’s Everest Route
Published January 12, 2008
At 6:30 a.m. on May 28, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set out from a camp high above the South Col on the Southwest Face of Mount Everest and began the ascent for which both would become famous. Fighting through snow, winding along an exposed ridgeline with drops of over 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) on either side, scrambling up steep, rocky steps, and finally climbing a sloping snowfield, the pair reached the summit at 11:30 a.m. It was the first known climb of the world’s tallest mountain.
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Bear Glacier, Gulf of Alaska
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Published November 8, 2006
Although they move slowly, glaciers do move, and this movement alters the ice as it passes over land. Likewise, a moving glacier can carry with it evidence of geologic events it has witnessed. The Bear Glacier in the Kenai Peninsula along the Gulf of Alaska bears multiple clues about its past.
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