Terraced Rice Field - Yunnan, China
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November 24, 2011
November 23, 2011
My own photo.
Original submission can be found in my gallery here.
(submission from thephantomdragon)
October 22, 2011
September 24, 2011
Autumn Landscape, Adirondacks
from national geographic:
Sunlight dapples the shoulders of Algonquin and Wright, two of the more than 40 so-called High Peaks that rise above 4,000 feet. Once blighted by logging and industry, the region has undergone a renaissance of woods and waters.
September 2, 2011
August 31, 2011
May 20, 2011
Rust-colored sediments flow into the turquoise waters of Lake Ayakum in an astronaut picture of the Tibetan Plateau released May 9. When sediments build up to the point that a river can no longer flow over them, the river will jump to a new channel. Over time, these channels tend to sweep back and forth to form the fan shape typical of river deltas. This image shows two currently active river deltas nestled in smooth, older surfaces (tan), which mark the previous positions of the river channels.
May 20, 2011
On May 8 NASA’s Landsat-7 satellite captured this picture of smoke billowing from the Honey Prairie Fire in southern Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp. Sparked by lightning, the wildfire has so far burned about 61,822 acres (25,018 hectares) of scrub and brush. But fire managers in Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge aren’t too worried: Fires are a natural part of the swamp’s ecosystem, clearing land for fresh prairie grass. Firefighters are working to keep the blaze within the refuge, and they expect heavy summer rains will eventually put the fires out.
May 10, 2011
This is a photograph of the reflection of El Capitan in the Merced River in winter in Yosemite National Park.
May 9, 2011
Nyiragongo Lava, Congo
Cradling one of the world’s largest and least studied lava lakes—more than 700 feet across and possibly miles deep—Nyiragongo has twice sent molten rock racing toward residents of Goma.
May 9, 2011
The mighty weight of the entire Milky Way teeters precariously on Balanced Rock in Arches National Park.
May 6, 2011
The Maya believed natural wells, such as the Xkeken cenote in Mexico’s Yucatán, led to the underworld.
May 5, 2011
