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Today is April 8, 2007, week number 15.
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2007
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Pressure release of granite in the Enchanted Rock State Natural Area of Texas, USA. The photo shows the geological exfoliation of granite dome rock. Photo credit: Taken by Wing-Chi Poon on 2nd April 2005 |
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The trail of underwater mountains created as the the tectonic plate moved across the Hawaii hotspot over millions of years, known as the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, or the Emperor Seamounts. Photo credit: NOAA |
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Generation of a tsunami. Image credit: Anthony Liekens, Koba-chan |
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Cumulonimbus capillatus incus cloud, floating over Swifts Creek, Victoria in Australia. Image credit: Fir0002 |
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A hygrometer is used to measure the relative humidity. Image credit: José Cruz/Agência Brasil |
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Tonoshō port in Shodoshima Island Kagawa Prefecture, Japan at night. Photo credit: 663highland 2006.10.28 |
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Drake Park, Bend, Oregon, United States on 27 December 2004. Photo credit: Erik Swanson |
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Mount Hood reflected in Trillium Lake, Oregon. Photo credit: Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory |
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Great Wall of China at Mutianyu. Photo credit: Ofol |
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Photo credit: Júlio Reis and João David Tereso |
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Whale watching ships in Húsavík, Iceland. Photo credit: Andreas Tille |
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The Earth's tectonic plates. |
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Mouth of the glacier Schlatenkees, near Innergschlöß and Alte Prager Hütte, Austria. Image credit: SehLax |
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Winter scene at Shipka Pass in Bulgaria. Image credit: Psy guy |
[edit] Week 15
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Cyclone Catarina. Note the clockwise circulation of Southern Hemisphere cyclones, the well-defined banding features, and the eyewall of at least a Category 1 system. The coastline is visible under the clouds in the upper left corner of the image. Image credit: Astronaut photograph ISS008-E-19646 was taken March 7, 2004 on the International Space Station, provided by the Earth Observations Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. |
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Northern shore meadows of Sihlsee, an artificial lake near Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. Image credit: Markus Bernet |
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Night view of the Thirty-three arch bridge aka. Si-o-se Pol, built over the Zayandeh Rud river in Isfahan, Iran. Image credit: Marmoulak |
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Colorful reef fish, Pennant coralfish, Pyramid and Milletseed butterflyfish, school in great numbers at Rapture Reef, French Frigate Shoals of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Image credit: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
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Landscape produced by a receding glacier. Image credit: Luis María Benítez, Lycaon (vectorisation) |
