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Trees
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EMBED A bicycle was buried in Manhattan’s East Village yesterday. (Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images via the New York Times)
Mount St. Helens After Eruption
Photograph by Steven L. Raymer, National Geographic
A wisp of smoke escapes from Mount St. Helens’ dramatic eggshell-shaped crater after an eruption. Washington State’s volcano is most famous for its catastrophic 1980 eruption that killed 57 people, destroyed homes, bridges, and highways, and triggered an enormous debris avalanche that carved a mile-wide (1.6-kilometer-wide) crater on the mountain.
Meandering Mississippi
Image courtesy EROS/USGS/NASA
The Mississippi River—North America’s largest—unfurls like a teal ribbon through towns, fields, and pastures on the Arkansas-Mississippi border in a 2003 satellite picture. (Take a Mississippi River quiz.)Overall, the Earth as Art collections provide “fresh and inspiring glimpses of different parts of our planet’s complex surface,” according to the USGS.
the parasitic plant Thonningia sanguinea contains no chlorophyll and spends its life in the leaf litter, like a fungus | Miombo Woodland, Zambia | +
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