Auroras show out atmosphere’s connection to the heliosphere—the solar system-wide atmosphere of the Sun.
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The famous strait bisects Turkey’s largest city and marks the line between Europe and Asia.
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Greenery sprouts from the Sahara Desert in Egypt thanks to the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System.
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One of Europe’s most important modern ports is a city of commercial superlatives.
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The port city handles cargo for Mexico City and the surrounding region.
A fertilizer extraction operation adds distinct color to the landscape.
The deepest lake in the United States is a haven for fishermen.
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The city is one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in Mexico and site of the busiest international land-border crossing in the world.
Occupying a valley carved by glaciers, the remote lake dominates Ts’yl-os Provincial Park in British Columbia.
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.
In June 2017, astronauts aboard the International Space Station were asked to take photographs of widespread wildfires on South Africa’s mountainous southern coast.
An astronaut caught a glimpse of the aurora australis while looking out across the Indian Ocean.
An astronaut managed to capture the size and detail of the artificial landscape that results from strip mining.
Along the delta of the Guadalquivir River, fish farming takes a more natural course.
Known as the rural side of New Orleans, the landscape is largely marshes and bayous and old European names.
This geologically young volcanic field in western Sudan has nearly 700 vents and craters.
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Turbines and alluvial fans scratch out shapes across the flat landscape.
This passage through the Peloponnese Peninsula was 2500 years in the making.
The city has a commanding view of the fertile and well-vegetated river basin and plain.
A saddle-shaped mountain distinguishes a region that carries a heavy economic load for Mexico.
A nearly uninterrupted string of lights stretches from Philadelphia to Hartford.
The landscape near the southern Murray River contrasts fertile farmland with dry lakes.
There is nothing rotten about this view of the Scandinavian nation that thrives amidst cold northern waters.
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Straddling Austria and Hungary, the lake is also known as the “Sea of the Viennese.”
Standing beside floodplains and wetlands, the highlands are packed with farms.
Winter traces white and blue across the high country.
The volcano produced streams of lava in March 2017.
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Much of the land surface is covered by salt evaporation ponds and a saline lake known as Town Pond, around which the capital—Cockburn Town—developed.
Shelterbelts, or wind breaks, are used to protect and preserve farmland in southern Russian.
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Millennia of human development stand alongside mainland Europe’s only active volcano.
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