Gallery: Troubling Photos Show Our Planet as Astronauts See It

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    Gemasolar Thermosolar Plant, Seville, Spain
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    L’Eixample, Valencia, Spain
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    Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Amundsen Sea, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
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    Industrial sector, Tokai, Aichi, Japan
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    Whirlpool exchange, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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    Mount Whaleback Iron Ore Mine, Pilbara, Austrialia
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    St. Petersburg, Russia
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    Stelvio Pass, Northern Alps, Italy
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    The Pearl Qatar

    The Pearl, Doha, Qatar
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    Brasília, Brazil
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    Tire Graveyard, Sulaibiya, Kuwait City, Kuwait
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    Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands
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    Terraced Agriculture, Lanzhou, China
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    Sasang District, Busan, Korea

    Sasang District, Busan, Korea
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    Magdeburg Water Bridge, Magdeburg, Germany
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    Kaaba / Al-Masjid al-Haram, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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    Bourtange, Vlagtwedde, Netherlands
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    Cube Houses, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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    San Francisco Bay Salt Evaporation Ponds, San Francisco, CA
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    Mount Taranaki, North Island, New Zealand
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    Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya
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    Sun City, Arizona
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    Terraced rice paddies, Yuanyang, Yunnan, China
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    Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, Nevada
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    Niagara Falls Border of Ontario, Canada and New York, United States
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    Tulip Fields, Lisse, Netherlands
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    Pivot Irrigation, Edson, Kansas
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