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- Cape Canaveral, KSC [shuttle runway] (like tourist in Paris has to photograph eiffel tower, astronaut has to take picture of KSC) - Red Sea, etc (STS-17). Nile river (vegetation) Natural phenomena: - Mississippi Delta. dynamic region - can vary in sediment loads and distribution patterns. - hurricane in the Indian ocean (~200km across) (1984) - through the eye of the same hurricane (can see into the Indian Ocean) - plankton bloom off the Namibia coast of South Africa (biological act.) - Lake Nassar. (1988) as a result of long drought in Africa, Nile has carried less water, so Lake Nassar has retreated from areas previously covered. (more recent photos show recovery of lake) Effects of civilization - oil slicks in the Persian Gulf (STS17] - evidence of erosion of Madagascar. native forests cut down: cultivation and pasture-massive erosion/soil losses series on Amazon : - Skylab 2 (1973) looking east to west over all of Amazon basin (notice clarity.. can see the ground) - (15 years later) edge of Andes...looking at edge of smoke cloud (western edge, stops at Andes) - entire Amazon basin obscured by smoke from clearing and burning of tropical forest during the dry season. covered area 3xTexas (1000km to mountains). smoke at the center: size of the fires in Yellowstone-1988