Look: Our amazing Earth seen from above

Stunning aerial images of our planet Earth

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Elizabeth Lake, that has been refilled by the recent heavy rainfalls, after being dried up for several years due to extreme heat and drought conditions, in Elizabeth Lake, an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, April 20, 2023.
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Swirls of clouds form a heart-like shape as winds divert around the Juan Fernandez Islands off the coast of Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean, February 2, 2019.
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Picture taken with a drone on April 13, 2024 at Svartsengi near Grindavik, Iceland, shows an aerial view of a volcanic eruption at Sundhnukagigar in southwest Iceland, ongoing for a month.
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A farmer stands in the middle of a dried-up dam in a drought-effected paddock on his property located west of the town of Gunnedah in New South Wales, Australia.
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A view shows a collapsed part of the Rhone glacier, amid climate change, in Obergoms, Switzerland.
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Egmont National Park in New Zealand with Mt. Taranaki at its center.
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Small island cays and the prominent tidal channels cutting between them in the Bahamas in a photo taken from the International Space Station.
Reuters
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Vew of Lake Powell is seen, where water levels have declined dramatically as growing demand for water and climate change shrink the Colorado River in Page, Arizona, November 19, 2022.
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An ipe (lapacho) tree is seen in this aerial view of the Amazon rainforest near the city of Novo Progresso, Para State.
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Aerial view of the tree branching area of the Shatt Al-Arab River, in Basra, Iraq.
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Nad Al Sheba Desert in Dubai.
Reuters
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A flooded island after heavy rains in Qingyuan, in southern China's Guangdong province. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated due to heavy rain and fatal floods in southern China, with the government issuing its highest-level rainstorm warning for the affected area on April 23.
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A view of dried-up rivers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, December 2, 2013. The Pilbara region, which is the size of Spain, has the world's largest known deposits of iron ore and supplies nearly 45 percent of global trade in the mineral.
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Love lake in Dubai.
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An iceberg floats in a fjord near the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland.
Reuters

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