Earth From Space 🌍

EFS#11: Green River winds through radioactive 'labyrinth of shadows'

Utah’s Green River has carved a deep, shadowy canyon that holds many secrets, including deep caves & an old uranium mine 🏞️☢️

🗓️ 4/22/2018

📸 ISS program

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EFS#10: Near-lifeless 'Land of Terror' looks like an alien landscape in the Sahara

Thousands of years of wind erosion have revealed concentric rings of sandstone bedrock that date back to the Paleozoic Era 🏜️

📍 Tanezrouft Basin

🗓️ 10/22/2017

📸 Landsat 8

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Three white ice caps with concentric blue rings on top of uninhabited barren islands

EFS#9: Trio of ringed ice caps look otherworldly on Russian Arctic islands

These uninhabited islands are normally completed covered in snow. But in summer only the oldest layers of ice remain ❄️

📍 Severnaya Zemlya archipelago

🗓️ 8/9/2018

📸 Landsat 8

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EFS#8: Mysterious, slow-spinning cloud 'cyclone' hugs the Iberian coast

This spiral is a mix of moist air from the sea swirling together with dry air from the land via a phenomenon known as ‘cyclonic rotation’ ☁️🌀

📍 Spain/Portugal

🗓️ 7/16/2017

📸 NASA Terra

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‘Monster’ 7-story waves crash along Portuguese coast

These massive waves created huge underwater plumes of sediment 🌊

A surfer unofficially beat a world surf record after riding a 101-foot wave in the same place hours later 🏄

📍Nazaré

🗓️ 10/29/2022

📸 Landsat 8

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EFS#7: Shapeshifting rusty river winds through Madagascar's 'red lands'

The Betsivoka River runs red due to high levels of iron in surrounding soils & meanders around islands held together by mangroves 🟠🌴

🗓️ 6/29/2018

📸 ISS program

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A swirling green mass of algae in the ocean, as seen from space

EFS#6: Ethereal algal vortex blooms at the heart of massive Baltic 'dead zone'

This 15-mile-wide, swirling mass of cyanobacteria sucked the oxygen out of the waters below making them toxic to marine life 🌱🌀

📍Gulf of Finland

🗓️ 7/18/2018

📸 Landsat 8

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A giant cloud seen from space in the shape of a jellyfish

EFS#5: Rare phenomenon transforms African thunderstorm into giant ethereal 'jellyfish'

This 300-km-wide cloud was created by an ‘outflow boundary,’ which is essentially a shock wave that radiates from thunderstorms ☁️🪼

📍Central Mali

🗓️ 9/27/2018

📸 Suomi NPP

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A green guitar among a series of beige farmland as seen from above

Amazing guitar-shaped forest spotted from space

A creation by Pedro Martin Ureta who created the woodland in honor of his wife who died in childbirth in 1977 (he has never seen his creation from above) 🎸🌳

📍 The Pampas, Argentina

🗓️ 11/2/2007

📸 NASA/Terra

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A satellite photo of a snow covered caldera split in half by water and frozen lava

EFS#4: Majestic 'yin-yang' crater sits atop a dormant volcano in Turkey

This caldera is split in 1/2, by a crater lake & solidified lava flows. The lake is >500 ft deep & has more lava flows across its floor ☯️🌋

📍 Mount Nemrut, Turkey

🗓️ 4/17/2022

📸 ISS program

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EFS#3: Mysterious wave ripples across ‘galaxy’ of icebergs in Arctic fjord

The perfectly still surface of an iceberg-littered inlet gets disturbed by an arc-shape wave, likely caused by a ‘calving event’ 🌊🧊

📍 Uummannaq Fjord, Greenland

🗓️ 8/3/2023

📸 Landsat 9

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EFS#2: Lava bleeds down iguana-infested volcano as it spits out toxic gas

A lava flow from a recent eruption at La Cumbre volcano on Fernandina Island. The volcano’s caldera is home to thousands of iguanas 🌋🦎

📍Galápagos Islands

🗓️ 3/7/2024

📸 Landsat 8

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EFS#1: Trio of multicolor lakes look otherworldly in Africa's Great Rift Valley

From L to R: Lake Shala, Lake Abijatta & Lake Langano in Ethiopia. Each lake has a unique color due to their depth, sediment content or algal blooms 🎨

🗓️ 3/29/2022

📸 Landsat 8

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