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Patagonia’s icefields cover undreds of kilometres along the Andes mountains in Chile and Argentina. Two areas, a north and south icefield, are all that remains of a vast ice sheet that reached its peak 18,000 years ago. Today, climate change is thinning the ice further still. This image shows the entire north Patagonian icefield – the smaller of the two.

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Nasa’s Thermal Infrared Sensor allows scientists to capture the rift on the Antarctic Peninsula even in the dark of winter. In this false-colour image the blue hue of the crack can be compared to the orange of the warmer areas of open ocean and thin sea ice, and the lighter blues and whites of the colder ice shelf.

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This picture shows the extent of severe flooding in Sri Lanka, in the town of Matara.

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Tomales Bay lies about 50km (30 miles) northwest of San Francisco. In this image, two shades of green clearly show the different types of vegetation on the island – dark green conifer forests on the western shore and light green grasslands on the east. What we can’t see beneath the surface is the San Andreas Fault line that runs between two tectonic plates

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The Thar Desert in India, with the city of Bikaner visible in the lower part of the image, surrounded by agricultural land and sand dunes. The red areas are vegetation. Satellite data on land cover and land cover changes can be used to combat drought and desertification in regions such as this.

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The coast of Newfoundland in Canada and the estuary of river St Laurent, with ice visible along the coast. Warming temperatures caused perilous ice, which is up to eight metres thick, to drift south from the Arctic and clog the coasts of Newfoundland, Labrador and Quebec, where it trapped boats and ferries as late as June.

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Kings Sound, on Australia’s northwest coast. The gulf has one of the world’s largest tidal ranges, at about 11-12 meters, second only to that of the Bay of Fundy on Canada’s Atlantic coast. Lightest shades show areas covered  by the water during the high tide, instead the darker  areas rapresent the level of the water during the low tidal, and the darkest shade are perpetually submerged areas.

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The central Meidob volcanic field is in Darfur and it covers an area of about 5,000 sq km. There are about 700 vents that are about six million years old. The area shown here has distinctive landforms that include several craters, lava domes built by viscous lava.

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The snaking shape of Pakistan’s Indus River can be seen even in nighttime satellite imagery. The river is not easy to see, the dark vegetation growing along for all the lenght of the Indus. The brighter zone is the desert.