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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carlowicz, Michael J. (Author)
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Earth Science, NASA Headquarters, [2018]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Atmosphere. Curving cloud streets, Brazil and Bolivia
  • A trio of plumes, South Atlantic Ocean
  • Filling the valleys, Peru
  • A glorious view, Pacific Ocean
  • Punching holes in the sky, United States
  • Bering Streets, Arctic Ocean
  • Riding the waves, Mauritania
  • Cloud shadow, Germany
  • Double trouble, Pacific Ocean
  • Making tracks, Pacific Ocean
  • Tracing the coast, China
  • Four mountains stand out, Pacific Ocean
  • Framing an iceberg, South Atlantic Ocean
  • Valley Fog, Canada
  • Holuhraun Lava Field, Iceland
  • Lofted over land, Madagascar
  • Water. Channel Country, Australia
  • Tea-colored Rubert Bay, Canada
  • Coral Cocos, Indian Ocean
  • Bay of Whales, Russia
  • Storms stir up sediment, Bermuda
  • The meeting of waters, Brazil
  • A laval lamo look ath teh Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean
  • Teeming life in the Strait of Georgia, Canada
  • Ephemeral Lake Frome, Australia
  • Dueling blooms, Barents Sea
  • A bay sculpted by ice, Canada
  • Tidal flats and channels, Bahamas
  • The blooming baltic, Baltic Sea
  • Waves beneath the waves, Trinidad
  • Land of Lakes, Canada
  • Plankton and sulfur, Namibia
  • Aland Islands, Scandinavia
  • Crater lakes with clear water, Canada
  • Mergui Archipelago, Southeast Asia
  • Scarlet Lake Natron, Tanzania
  • Swirling bloom off Patagonia, Argentina
  • Land. A curious ensemble of wonderful features, United States
  • Megadunes and desert lakes, Mongolia
  • Colorful faults of Xinjiang, China
  • Bowknot Bend, United States
  • From rainforest to rain shadow, United States
  • A blaze of color, Sweden
  • Folds and curves of the Kavir, Iran
  • Fanning out in farmland, Kazakhstan
  • The zones of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
  • Liwa Oasis, United Arab Emirates
  • Don Juan Pond, Antarctica
  • Linear Dunes, Caprivi Strip, Namibia
  • Harratt Lunayyir Laval Field, Saudi Arabia
  • Taranski snf Egmont, New Zealand
  • Cultivating a border, China and Kazakhstan
  • Barrier Islands, Brazil
  • Tsauchab River Bed, Namibia
  • Ice and Snow. Mertz loses part of its tongue, Antarctica
  • Swimming with ice cubes, United States
  • Franz Josef Land, Arctic Ocean
  • No green in this land, Greenland
  • Mackenzie meets Beaufort, Canada
  • Sea ice at Shikotan, Japan and Russia
  • North Patagonian Icefield, South America
  • Manning Island and the Foxe Basin, Canada
  • Ice water, United States
  • Omulyakhskaya and Khromskaya, Russia
  • Phytoplankton on ice, Antarctica
  • Heart-shaped Uummannaq, Greenland
  • Puma Yumco, China
  • Grounded in the Caspian, Kazakhstan
  • Ice-covered delta, Canada.