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Durrat Al Bahrain, Persian Gulf
Published February 7, 2011
At the southern end of Bahrain Island, at the furthest point from the cities of the kingdom, a new complex of 14 artificial islands has risen out of the sea.
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Spring Bloom in New Zealand Waters
Published October 28, 2009
A phytoplankton bloom colored the waters east of New Zealand on October 25, 2009.
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Akimiski Island, Canada
Published April 15, 2008
Scraped clean and weighted down for thousands of years by Pleistocene ice sheets, Akimiski Island in James Bay provides a case study of how Earth's land surfaces evolve following glaciation. During the last ice age, this small island was buried under several thousand meters ice, but since its retreat, the island has rebounded (risen in elevation) and new beach areas have emerged, streams and lakes have formed, and trees and other vegetation have colonized the new territory.
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Lonar Crater, India
Published April 13, 2008
India’s Lonar Crater began causing confusion soon after it was identified. Lonar Crater sits inside the Deccan Plateau—a massive plain of volcanic basalt rock leftover from eruptions some 65 million years ago. Its location in this basalt field suggested to some geologists that it was a volcanic crater. Today, however, Lonar Crater is understood to result from a meteorite impact that occurred between 35,000 and 50,000 years ago.
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Tenoumer Crater, Mauritania
Published February 17, 2008
Deep in the Sahara Desert lies a crater. Nearly a perfect circle, it is 1.9 kilometers (1.2 miles) wide, and sports a rim 100 meters (330 feet) high. Modern geologists long debated what caused this crater, some of them favoring a volcano. But closer examination of the structure revealed that the crater’s hardened “lava” was actually rock that had melted from a meteorite impact.
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Mackenzie River Delta, Canada
Published December 20, 2007
Canada’s Mackenzie River, the country’s longest, spills out of Great Slave Lake, just north of the border between Alberta and Northwest Territories.
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Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal
Published February 15, 2007
The Andaman Islands consist of more than 500 islands in the Bay of Bengal. The largest islands comprise Great Andaman, easily seen from space.
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Goosenecks State Park, Utah
Published May 13, 2005
The image shows Goosenecks State Park, where the river is surrounded by canyon walls more than 1,000 feet high.
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