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A Lagoon in the Desert
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Published December 26, 2020
A popular place for sandboarding, Huacachina is the only natural desert oasis in South America.
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Outburst at Desolation Lake
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Published November 30, 2020
A flood in a glacial lake behind Lituya Glacier surprised an unsuspecting fisherman and reworked a young delta in Alaska.
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Sea Level Watcher Takes Flight
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Published November 24, 2020
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will extend a nearly 30-year continuous dataset on sea surface height.
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Lituya Bay’s Apocalyptic Wave
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Published November 20, 2020
One of the tallest tsunami waves known to science slammed this Alaskan bay in 1958.
Thomsen River Estuary, Banks Island
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Sea ice and waterways along the north side of Canada’s high-Arctic island reveal compelling patterns when viewed from above.
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Snowy and Icy Peaks with Very Different Origins
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Published October 25, 2020
Researchers find that ice caps on the mountains of Pluto are made of methane, but develop through an opposite process from that on Earth.
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Mining for Iron at Mount Whaleback
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Published October 17, 2020
The site in Western Australia holds one of the country’s largest and oldest iron ore mines.
The Specter of a Mega-Tsunami in Alaska
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Published October 5, 2020
Landsat images helped convince researchers that a slumping mountainside overlooking Barry Arm fjord could pose a tsunami hazard.
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