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Baltimore with a Dusting of Snow: While traveling to the
International Space Station aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor,
astronauts photographed the northeastern United States blanketed in
fresh snow. This image, taken in early December 2002, shows the city
of Baltimore, and the surrounding area. An inset shows the center of
the city (rotated so north points up). Astronauts routinely track
weather phenomena on Earth, and use their onboard cameras to document
their observations. Ground support in the Earth Observations Lab at
the Johnson Space Center also track weather events world wide as part
of the image planning activities, and alert the crews to significant
events such as winter storm systems.
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Mt Etna Volcano erupting, Sicily, Italy: This south-looking
oblique view shows snowy, winter-time Mt. Etna with a brown smutty
ash plume in an unusually three-dimensional view. Sunset view, Dec.
14, 2002.
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Mt Etna Volcano erupting, Sicily, Italy: This strongly
oblique, south-looking view, shows Mt. Etna's dark ash plume rising
above the general altitude of storm clouds over the Mediterranean Sea
at sunset on Dec. 14, 2002.
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New York City: Manhattan Island appears just left of center,
flanked by the lower Hudson River (left), and the East River (right).
Several bridges can be discerned. The lake in Central Park is
particularly visible. The Verrazano Narrows Bridge appears center on
the bottom margin of the view, dividing upper New York Bay from Lower
New York Bay. Newark Bay is the waterbody lower left. Three famous
islands appear at the north (top) end of Upper New York Bay, the
smallest being Liberty Island (Statue of Liberty not visible at this
resolution), Ellis Island, the middle-sized island, and Governor's
Island, the largest. Queens appears top right and Brooklyn lower
right, with the Naval Air Station on Jamaica Bay on the right margin.
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Midlatitude storm system: The counter-clockwise swirl shows
that this is a northern hemisphere storm. The storm was northeast of
the Mediterranean covering the Balkans and westren Turkey. The view
was taken looking northwest in the early afternoon of Dec 3, 2002.
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Patagonia lakes, southern Argentina: The lowest of three lake
in this view is Lake Argentino in Argentina. The next one north
(middle lake) is Lake Viedma, and the lake on the top margin is Lake
San Martín. All three odf these large lakes have been carved out by
glaciers in the recernt ice age, descending from the Andes Mountains
(under cloud along the right side of the view). Three glacier
tongues can be discerned as small white features leading into the
western (left) ends of each lake. The rounded ends of the lakes are
produced by the slow "flowing" action of flowing glacial ice on the
plains next to the mountain chain. Snow can on lower peaks next to
the cloud make a jagged pattern.
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