Alaid is the tallest and northernmost volcano in the Kurile Islands. The symmetrical stratovolcano rises 3000 m from the sea floor and forms a small island. It has a 1.5-km-wide summit crater breached to the south. It is one of the Kuriles’ most active volcanoes. Large explosive eruptions occurred in 1790 and 1981, and were […]
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Earth Paints – Between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf – Lake Urmia, Eastern Azerbaijan (photo)
Lake Urmia, Eastern Azerbaijan. Lake Urmia is a salt lake in northwestern Iran near Iran’s border with Turkey. The lake is between the provinces of Eastern Azerbaijan and Western Azerbaijan, and west of the southern portion of the Caspian Sea. It is the largest lake in the Middle East and the sixth largest saltwater lake […]
Earth Paints – Volga Delta (photo)
The Volga Delta is the largest river delta in Europe, and occurs where Europe’s largest river system, the Volga River, drains into the Caspian Sea in Russia’s Astrakhan Oblast, north-east of the republic of Kalmykia. The delta is located in the Caspian Depression—the far eastern part of the delta lies in Kazakhstan. The delta drains […]
July 12. Zvezda heads into orbit aboard a Proton rocket in the year 2000 (photo)
Zvezda, DOS-8, also known as the Zvezda Service Module, is a component of the International Space Station (ISS). It was the third module launched to the station, and provides all of the station’s life support systems, some of which are supplemented in the USOS, as well as living quarters for two crew members. It is […]
Earth Paints – the Bahamas (photo)
Clouds Hairstyle. Exuma Island & Long Island
Experiment Kulonovskiy Kristall (photo)
Experiment Kulonovskiy Kristall (начался с МКС-39) (about): Study of dynamic and structural characteristics of the coulomb systems formed by the charged dispersed diamagnetic macroparticles in the magnetic trap; investigation of the following processes onboard the ISS RS: the condensed dust media – coulomb crystals and coulomb liquids formation by the charged macroparticles.
Paints of Africa – Gweni-Fada Crater, Chad (photo)
African Crescent in the Northwest of Chad.
Glacier’s Comb near Labuche Kang (photo)
Glaciers near Labuche Kang. Tibet, about border with Nepal. Katmandu Area.
Lake Issyk Kul (photo)
Issyk Kul is an endorheic lake in the northern Tian Shan mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan. It is the tenth largest lake in the world by volume and the second largest saline lake after the Caspian Sea. Although it is surrounded by snow-capped peaks, it never freezes.
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