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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.

-island of Hawaii - steam plume form volcanic eruption (near the Kilauea volcano). Astronauts typically photograph 2-4 volcanic eruptions per mission (some of which are in remote areas, and not otherwise reported)

-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.) czcs

-Downdrafts caused by collapsing thunderstorms flatten the surface of the Atlantic. (rarely photographed - short timescale lighting)

-Lake Nassar. (1998) as a result of long drought in Africa, Nile has carried less water, so Lake Nassar has retreated from area previously covered. (more recent photos show recovery of lake)

-crater - 30km dia

Effects of civilization

-oil slicks in the Persian Gulf [STS17]

-evidence of erosion of Madagascar. native forests cut down: cultivation and pasture-massive erosion/siol losses

series on Amazon:

-Skylab 2 (1973) looking east to west over all of the Amazon basin (notice clarity.. can see the ground

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