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Mount Olympus, Greece

Mount Olympus is the highest peak in Greece. The 2,917-meter (9,570-foot) summit is the tallest in a mountain chain that runs north into Bulgaria and south into Turkey, via the Cyclades Islands. In this winter view, Olympus is the only…

Dinosaur National Monument

The paleontologist Eric Douglass made the first discoveries here in 1909, and President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it a national monument in 1915.

Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Olduvai Gorge is a 50-km-long (30-mile), 90-meter-deep (295-foot) ravine located in the eastern Serengeti Plains of northern Tanzania, within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. According to geologists, the region’s gradual accumulation of lake sediments punctuated by sudden deposits of layers of…

Widespread Fires in Southeast Asia

According to news reports from Southeast Asia, the end of the dry phase of the Southeast Asian monsoon in the spring of 2005 found numerous countries facing a crippling drought. In March 2005, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and southern…

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Cassini Significant Events 03/24/05 – 03/30/05

Cassini Significant Events 03/24/05 – 03/30/05 April 1, 2005 (Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Cassini Significant Events for 03/24/05 – 03/30/05 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired today from the Goldstonetracking station. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state…

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Sulfur Dioxide Seeps from the Ambrym Volcano

Sandwiched between Fiji and Australia in the South Pacific, the island nation of Vanuatu hosted the strongest point source of sulfur dioxide on the planet for the first months of 2005. Ambrym Volcano, on the island of the same name,…

Hubble Spies Cosmic Dust Bunnies

Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. This image made from data obtained with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope reveals…

The Rising Cost of Natural Hazards

Disaster-related economic losses topped $145 billion in 2004, the latest in a disturbing upward trend. Has climate change increased the number and severity of natural disasters, or is the rising cost of natural disasters due to other human factors?

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Massive Earthquake Along the Sunda Trench

A magnitude 8.7 earthquake rattled northern Sumatra, Indonesia, on March 28, 2005, at 11:09 p.m., local time. At least 330 people are dead, but Indonesian officials expect the toll to soar over 2,000. The earthquake was centered 160 kilometers southeast…

Titan Flyby 4 (T-4): Mar. 31, 2005

This map of Titan’s surface illustrates the regions that will be imaged by Cassini during the spacecraft’s close flyby of the haze-covered moon on March 31, 2005.

Eruption of Klyuchevskaya Volcano

Eruptions at the Klyuchevskaya volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula became more violent on March 24, 2005. The Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruptions Response Team boosted the alert level on the volcano to red, the highest alert reserved for major explosive eruptions, after…

Popocatepetl and Iztaccíhuatl Volcanoes, Mexico

As part of the circum-Pacific “Ring of Fire,” Mexico hosts several of the world’s most continually active volcanoes, including the massive Popocatepetl (Aztec for “smoking mountain.”) This detailed, oblique astronaut photograph also depicts a neighboring volcano, Iztaccíhuatl (the “Woman in…

Easter Island (Rapa Nui)

On Easter Sunday in 1722, a Dutch explorer sailing in the vast and nearly landless waters of the South Pacific Ocean came upon a small island, alone in more than 8.5 million square miles of sea. In honor of the…