Earth from above

Birds-eye views of our wild planet turn the ordinary into the extraordinary

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Egmont National Park, New Zealand (Photo taken July 3, 2014 and released Nov. 14, 2014): Mt. Taranaki is seen at the center of an image taken by NASA's Landsat 8 satellite.
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Iguazu Falls, Argentina (June 9, 2014): Authorities were forced to close down the iconic Iguazu National Park for several days after heavy rainfall in the region caused the Parana, the river feeding into the falls, to flood. The touris
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Ha Long Bay, Vietnam (Sept. 8, 2014): The bay's more than 1,600 limestone islands and islets are largely uninhabited.
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Pilbara region, Western Australia (Dec. 2, 2013): The Pilbara region, which is the size of Spain, has the world's largest known deposits of iron ore — it supplies nearly 45 percent of global trade in the mineral. Here, we see dried-up rivers in the region. (REUTERS/David Gray)

Lake Ontario: Late-summer plankton blooms across one of North America's Great Lakes, in this photograph taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station, courtesy of NASA. Microscopic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, can rea
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Adiyaman, Turkey (Nov. 10, 2014): The town of Susuz (center) is seen on the northern shore of the Ataturk dam.
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Pilbara region, Western Australia (Dec. 2, 2013): A road next to sand dunes covered in vegetation.
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Fort McMurray, Alberta (Sept. 17, 2014): Oil runs into a tailings pond at the Suncor tar sands operations. In 1967, Suncor helped pioneer the commercial development of Canada's oil sands, one of the largest petroleum resource basins in
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Melbourne, Australia: A small dam (left) containing water is seen in a dry paddock, next to another that has been burned by a fire.
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Sarah Eberspacher
Sarah Eberspacher

Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.