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Ocean Jewels

Ocean Jewels
This image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra spacecraft shows North and South Malosmadulu Atolls in the Maldives, an island republic in the northern Indian Ocean southwest of India.

This image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra spacecraft shows North and South Malosmadulu Atolls in the Maldives, an island republic in the northern Indian Ocean southwest of India. Made up of a chain of 1,192 small coral islands, the Maldives arguably make up the lowest-lying country in the world, with an average elevation just 1 meter above sea level.Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/ASTER Science Team