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Saint Helena Island
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Published June 15, 2009
This astronaut photo shows the sharp peaks and deep ravines of Saint Helena Island, in the remote South Atlantic Ocean.
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Three Gorges Dam, China
Published June 8, 2009
This image from April 15, 2009, is one of the first images that astronauts on the International Space Station have been able to capture of the flooding behind the Three Gorges Dam in China.
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Solar Evaporation Ponds, Atacama Desert
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Published June 1, 2009
Brightly colored solar evaporation (salt) ponds in the Atacama Desert give this astronaut photo an unreal quality.
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Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia
Published May 25, 2009
A strange circular area of thinned ice appears in this astronaut photo from late April 2009 of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia.
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Mauna Kea
Published May 18, 2009
A detailed astronaut photograph shows pyroclastic deposits on Hawaii’s Muana Kea Volcano.
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Ankara, Turkey
Published May 11, 2009
The distinctive red brick roof tiles of buildings in Ankara, Turkey, are the most striking feature in this astronaut photo from April 11, 2009.
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Dalmatian Coastline near Split, Croatia
Published May 4, 2009
This astronaut photo from April 9, 2009, shows the Dalmatian coastline of the Adriatic Sea around Split, Croatia.
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Red River Floods, North Dakota and Minnesota
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Published April 27, 2009
A second round of spring flooding on the Red River was captured in an astronaut photo from April 9, 2009.
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Mount Nemrut, Turkey
Published April 20, 2009
Winter snow blankets the 2,948-meter (9,672-foot) summit of Turkey’s Mount Nemrut Volcano in this astronaut photograph from December 3, 2008.
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Etosha Pan, Namibia
Published April 13, 2009
Flood water in the Oshigambo River, resulting from heavy rains in Angola, appears as a gray stream entering the northwest corner of Namibia’s Etosha Pan in this astronaut photo from March 26, 2009.
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Atafu Atoll, Tokelau
Published April 6, 2009
The ring shape is the result of coral reefs building up around a former volcanic island in the South Pacific.
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Betsiboka River Floods, Madagascar—January 2009
Published March 30, 2009
Two storms—Tropical Storm Eric and Cyclone Fanele—swept across eastern Madagascar within days of each other in January 2009. Rain from the storms swelled the Betsiboka River with floodwater.
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