Australia
Lake Eyre, Australia Australia’s Lake Eyre is usually dry, but Landsat 5 caught the image after an unusually wet rainy season in 2009. Image taken by Landsat 5 on June 10, 2009
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New England A week after Hurricane Irene hit New England in 2011, Landsat 5 took this natural-color image on Sep. 2 of the Connecticut River dumping sediment into the Long Island Sound.
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Lake Erie Though Lake Erie looks beautiful in this image, the green swirls in the water are evidence of the worst toxic algae bloom the lake has suffered in decades. Image taken by Landsat 5 on Oct. 5,...
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Tornado Track, Massachusetts This image, taken by Landsat 5 on June 1, 2011, shows the trail of destruction left by a tornado that cut through southwestern Massachusetts.
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Rhodes, Greece This image of the 48-mile-long Greek island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea was taken by Landsat 5 on Aug. 26, 2011. Rhodes is the largest island in the Dodecanese chain.
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Painted Desert, Arizona Landsat 5's Thematic Mapper can take both natural-color images and images in parts of the light spectrum that we can't see, such as in this image. Different types of rock,...
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Erg Iguidi, Algeria What look like pale yellow paint streaks slashing through a mosaic of mottled colors are ridges of wind-blown sand that make up Erg Iguidi, an area of ever-shifting sand dunes...
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Mount Elgon, Uganda-Kenya Border Clouds encircle the lofty rim of Africa's Mount Elgon, a huge, long-extinct volcano on the border between Uganda and Kenya. The solitary volcano has one of the world's...
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Okavango River, Botswana Like a watercolor in which a brushstroke of dark green has bled into a damp spot on the paper, southern Africa's Okavango River spreads across the pale, parched landscape of...
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Dhofar Region, Oman Much of Oman is desert, but the Arabian Sea coast in the Dhofar region represents a startling difference in climate. This coastal region catches the monsoon rains, or khareef,...
View ArticleCuriosity Rover’s Secret Historic Breakthrough
Curiosity Rover’s Secret Historic Breakthrough? Speculation Centers on Organic Molecules On Nov. 20, a comment made by the lead scientist on the Curiosity team to NPR about a historic finding on Mars...
View ArticleSpider Builds Its Own Spider Decoys
Spider That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys Discovered Every year, at least one story about spiders creeps onto our top 10 list. Just over a week ago on Dec. 18, we broke the story on a possible new...
View ArticleRumors of Higgs Boson Discovery
Physics Community Afire With Rumors of Higgs Boson Discovery On June 20, rumors that the long-sought Higgs boson had finally, really been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider began to circulate...
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