agricultural coastal continental coral desert equatorial forest island maritime mid-latitude mountains polar rainforest sea ice tropical urban
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agricultural
Variegated green crop circles cover what was once shortgrass prairie in southwestern Kansas. (Photography courtesy NASA/GSFC) coastal
Pristine sand dunes near the launch pads at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Photography courtesy NASA Images) continental
A network of farms and ranches surrounds the cities and small towns near the Nebraska–Iowa border. (Photography courtesy NASA/GSFC) coral
Great Barrier Reef near Whitsunday Islands. (Photography courtesy NASA/GSFC) desert
The lidar on its tripod. (Photography courtesy NASA/GSFC) equatorial
Equatorial Wave Line, Pacific Ocean. (Photography courtesy NASA Images) forest
Tropical forests, such as those in Gabon, Africa, are an important reservoir of carbon. (Photography courtesy Sassan Saatchi, NASA/JPL-Caltech.) island
The Republic of Maldives with its twenty-six atolls, and 1192 coral islands, with an average ground elevation of 1.5 meters (about 5 feet). (Photography courtesy NASA/Climate) maritime
Phytoplankton blooms across the northern basins of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. (Photography courtesy NASA/Climate) mid-latitude
Yosemite Valley (Photography courtesy NASA/GSFC) mountains
The Cuernos del Paine mountains in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile, during NASA's AirSAR 2004 campaign. (Photography courtesy NASA Images) polar
A NASA scientific balloon awaits launch in McMurdo, Antarctica. (Photography courtesy NASA/GSFC) rainforest
A stream in the La Selva region of the Costa Rican rain forest, taken during NASA's AirSAR 2004 campaign. (Photography courtesy NASA Images) sea ice
Sea ice hugging the coast of East Greenland. (Photography courtesy NASA/GSFC) tropical
An archipelago in the Andaman Sea surrounded by extensive coral reefs (Photography courtesy NASA/GSFC) urban
The narrow island of Manhattan, located between the Hudson River and the East River. (Photography courtesy NASA/GSFC) ⦉
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