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  • Snow-covered deserts are rare, but that’s exactly what the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite observed as it passed over the Taklimakan Desert in western China on Jan. 2, 2013.

    Snow-Covered Desert

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  • Fires in western Africa

    Fires in Western Africa

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  • After more than a month of eruption, lava continues to flow from Tolbachik, one of many active volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The current eruption at Tolbachik began on Nov. 27, 2012. Lava flowed up to 20 kilometers (12 miles) from a line of fissures on the volcano’s southern flank.

    Erupting Fissure at Tolbachik

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  • satellite image of fires in Africa

    Fires in Central Africa

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  • Suomi NPP sees Australia's fires

    NASA/NOAA Suomi-NPP Sees Fires in Northern Australia

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  • This new global view of Earth’s city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. Image credit: NASA's Earth Observatory/NOAA/DOD

    Earth at Night

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  • Centaur upper stage is lifted at the launch pad.

    Atlas V Centaur Upper Stage

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  • Centaur upper stage is lifted at the launch pad.

    Atlas V Centaur Upper Stage

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  • True-color image of St. Helena Island and the band of wind-blown cloud vortices trailing towards the island's leeward side. Image credit: NASA/GSFC

    Cloud Vortices Off Saint Helena Island

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  • Fires in the Cape York Peninsula of Australia

    Cape York Peninsula Fires

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