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Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn
Published May 26, 2014
Crews on the International Space Station seldom see the southern tip of Argentina and Chile in such clear weather.
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Karst Landscape, China
Published May 4, 2014
Water shaped the unique landscape of southeast China’s Guangxi Province.
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Clues for a Martian Landscape
Published April 29, 2014
Canyons on Mars show a striking similarity to a handful of canyons on Earth. Could they have had the same type of watery origin?
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Arkansas River Meanders
Published April 21, 2014
Near the city of Little Rock, the river has meandered for decades, leaving its marks across the landscape.
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Bowknot Bend
Published March 17, 2014
The Green River in eastern Utah once carved soft sediment into meanders on a floodplain. Then the land and mountains rose and the river dug deep, preserving those meanders in stone.
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8,000-meter Peaks of the Himalaya and Karakoram
Published January 28, 2014
The geologic story of the world’s tallest mountains is one that began some 40 million years ago.
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Western Sahara Desert, Mauritania
Published January 27, 2014
Dry mesas and dunes, as well as rare clouds, give color and texture to a plateau in the Sahara.
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The World’s Tallest Mountain
Published January 2, 2014
As the tallest mountain in the world, Everest is the standard to which all others are compared.
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Islands of the Four Mountains
Published December 16, 2013
Four volcanoes double as islands in Alaska’s Aleutian chain.
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Annapurna and Manaslu
Published December 11, 2013
Two peaks in the central Himalaya are visible from the ISS.
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Kangchenjunga
Published December 9, 2013
Kangchenjunga, the third tallest peak in the world, is the most easterly of the eight-thousanders.
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Makalu
Makalu is a pyramid-shaped mountain in Nepal, just 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Mount Everest.
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