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Jan. 17, 2012
The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia is shown after running aground off the coast of Giglio, Italy. Eleven people are confirmed dead and at least 23 are still missing from more than 4,200 passengers and crew.
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Aug. 5, 2011
At the former site of the World Trade Center in New York, the tallest building under construction is the blue, octagonal Tower 2. In the center between the two original buildings' footprints are the Sept. 11 memorial and Tower 3. Tower 4 is the blue share-shaped building in the lower left of the image.
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June 15, 2010
Cleanup efforts after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are shown.
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Aug. 28, 2011
The Burning Man festival is held in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
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March 8, 2011
At least 300 buildings at Tajalei village in Sudan's Abyei region were intentionally destroyed by fire, according to Satellite Sentinel Project analysis of this DigitalGlobe satellite image. The coloring on this image is a product of infrared photography.
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Aug. 31, 2009
In this image of the Station Fire north of Los Angeles, bright magenta represents live vegetation, the black areas are burnt, and the smoke, which appears bluish-gray, is from the fire. Colors are a product of infrared photography.
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Jan. 15, 2010
A satellite image of the central part of Port au Prince, Haiti, just after the earthquake.
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Nov. 29, 2010
A satellite image of the central part of Port au Prince, Haiti, 10 months after the earthquake.
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Nov. 12, 2010
Mount Merapi, Indonesia, erupts.
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May 5, 2011
In this image of flooding in New Madrid, Mo,, the yellow parts are healthy vegetation and the blue is water.
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April 29, 2011
Part of Tuscaloosa, Ala., is shown after a tornado passes through.
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March 14, 2011
Damage from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is shown.
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Oct. 24, 2011
An area near Bangkok floods, and residents are parking their vehicles, loaded with belongings, on highway overpasses to protect them.
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Nov. 2, 2011
Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is shown just before the annual Muslim pilgrimage of hajj.
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July 21, 2011
The Space Shuttle Atlantis is outside the Vehicle Assembly Building.
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Sept. 5, 2009
These ships off the coast of Somalia have been hijacked.
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March 12, 2011
Minamisoma, Japan, was devastated by an earthquake and a tsunami.
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Nov. 11, 2010
The erupton and lava flow of Mount Merapi in Indonesia is shown with infrared photography.
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March 28, 2011
The Rakaia River in the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand's South Island.
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June 20, 2011
Dubai's Palm Island, in the United Arab Emirates, is an artificial archipelago.
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May 2, 2011
Bombetoka Bay is on the northwestern coast of Madagascar near the city of Mahajanga, where the Betsiboka River flows into the Mozambique Channel.
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Sept. 2, 2011
A concentrated solar power plant, Nevada Solar One, is near Boulder City, Nev., in the Eldorado Valley.
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July 23, 2010
The Pearl is a manmade island near Doha, Qatar.
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July 22, 2010
The Farborough Air Show is held in Britain.
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A series of satellite images show New Orleans's Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina.
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May 30, 2009
The Solucar PS10 and PS20 solar power towers near Seville, Spain.
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Oct. 8, 2010
A toxic spill in Ajka, Hungary, affected the villages of Kolontar and Devecsar.
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Oct. 20, 2009
Port Botany, Australia.
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Feb. 6, 2011
This image shows an urban development in Ordos, China.
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Dec. 8, 2011
The Chinese aircraft carrier Varyag has its second sea trial in the Yellow Sea, near the port of Dalian.
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Aug. 5, 2010
Nowshera, Pakistan, and the surrounding area is flooded.
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March 15, 2010
Octavio Frias de Oliveria Bridge in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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June 9, 2007
An image of Sahmah, Oman.
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Sept. 21, 2010
Glacier retreat is being monitored by Extreme Ice Survey on these glaciers.
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In this image of an area just outside Bastrop, Tex., infrared photography shows a fire burning. The red vegetation is healthy, and the black areas are burning or have been burnt. The town of Bastrop is just off the lower right of the image, and the town of Paige is in the upper left.
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