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Forest Fire in Patagonia
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Published March 1, 2008
n the last week of February 2008, a forest fire broke out in the Alerces National Park in Argentina’s Patagonia region. Fanned by strong winds, the fire grew explosively in just a few hours. The blaze spread eastward and scorched more than 7,000 acres of woodland in the foothills of the Andres Mountains.
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Dust Storms over the Middle East
Published February 29, 2008
Although common during the summer, dust storms are relatively rare during the winter in the Middle East. Yet on February 21, 2008, dust plumes blew over Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and off the coasts of Yemen and Oman.
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Antarctic Sea Ice
Published February 28, 2008
On February 24, 2008—late summer in the Southern Hemisphere—the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of lingering sea ice in the Southern Ocean.
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Great Basin Geology
Published February 27, 2008
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Magnitude 6.0 Earthquake Near Wells, Nevada
Published February 26, 2008
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Mega-iceberg A53a, South Atlantic
Published February 25, 2008
The mega-iceberg A53a (upper image) measured close to 50 kilometers by 22 kilometers, about seven times the area of Manhattan Island, in mid-January 2008 when astronauts took the photographs for this mosaic. The images were acquired from the International Space Station (ISS), located 780 kilometers to the north of the iceberg at an altitude of 341 kilometers; the perspective distorts the oblong shape of the iceberg, making it look squarer than it actually is.
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Cloud vortices off Cheju Do, South Korea
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Published February 24, 2008
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Sea ice off Antarctica
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Wolfe Creek Crater
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Wolfe Creek Crater is the second largest crater in the world from which meteorite fragments have been collected. Because of its excellent preservation, the crater clearly shows the classic features that result from a large meteorite striking the Earth.
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Cyclone Ivan
Published February 23, 2008
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Dust storms in the Middle East (Terra/Aqua combination)
Published February 22, 2008
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Snow in the Taklimakan Desert
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