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Australian Scar

In a small corner of the vast Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia, large sand dunes --the only sand in this desert of scrub and rock -- appear as lines stretching from left to right. The light-colored fan shapes are scars from wildfires.
USGS / NASA
Sep 26th 2007 @ 11:14AM

The Earth From Above

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The Richat Structure
Malaspina Glacier
Karman Vortices
Garden City, Kansas
Iran's Largest Desert
Himalayas
Guinea-Bissau's Coast
West Fjords
Dragon Lake
Bolivian Deforestation
Ocean Sand, Bahamas
Australian Scar
Aleutian Clouds
Terkezi Oasis