June 27, 2024 • #
The launch complex at Cape Canaveral.
Topic / places
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April 24, 2024 • #
Edinburgh from the air. Alfred Buckham, c. 1920.
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Places: The English Channel
June 28, 2020 • #The English Channel with a phytoplankton bloom.
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Places: the Tes River Basin
March 11, 2020 • #The beautiful meandering Tes River of Siberia and western Mongolia.
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Places: Remnants of an Ancient Lake
February 17, 2020 • #Satellite data shows the expansive ancient shores of Lake Chad.
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Places: Kimbolton Region
October 2, 2019 • #Folds anf fjords of Western Australia's Kimbolton coastline.
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Places: The Kolyma River
August 8, 2019 • #Sediment flow from the mouth of a Siberian River.
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Places: Mergui Archipelago
July 16, 2019 • #The Mergui Archipelago off the coast of Myanmar.
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Places: Col du Galibier
June 25, 2019 • #Featuring one of the mountain climbs of the Tour de France, the Alps epic Col du Galibier.
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Places: Great Slave Lake
June 7, 2019 • #The Great Slave Lake is the deepest lake in North America, and the tenth largest lake on Earth.
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Places: Lake Natron
May 22, 2019 • #The red-hued saline lake of northern Tanzania.
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Places: Richat Structure
May 10, 2019 • #“The Richat Structure geologic dome of northern Mauritania.”
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The Deadly Logistics of Everest
May 3, 2019 • #A short video documentary with an overview of the logistics of Mount Everest.
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Notre Dame
April 17, 2019 • #Some memories from Notre Dame after the fire.
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Sierra Nevada, Basin and Range
February 8, 2019 • #“Viewing some of my favorite American geography from the air.”
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Weekend Reading: Mastery Learning, Burundi’s Capital, and SRTM
December 29, 2018 • #Mastery learning, Burundi moving its capital, and tools for SRTM data.
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Weekend Reading: Largest Islands, Linework, and Airline Mapping
December 22, 2018 • #David Garcia and Daniel Huffman's cartography projects.
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The World's Most Remote Buildings
December 18, 2018 • #A great mini documentary about some of the most remote structures humans have ever built.
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China is Erasing its Border with Hong Kong
December 17, 2018 • #“Part of Vox’s ‘Borders’ series, on the China-Hong Kong border.”
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Weekend Reading: Exploring Zanzibar, Singapore of the Future, & Watching Basketball
December 1, 2018 • #“A couple of links about cities and places, and one on watching basketball.”
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Weekend Reading: Typing on iPad Pro, Climate Optimism, Visualizing GeoNames
November 24, 2018 • #Smart Keyboard Folio, defending 'climate optiism', and exploring place name data.
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Alaska's Dalton Highway
November 7, 2015 • #400 miles of solitary driving through northern Alaska.
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The Main Road Through the Heart of Africa
September 22, 2015 • #A great article in this month's National Geographic about the wild and lawless Congo River.
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Door to Hell
August 18, 2014 • #A drilling accident in 1971 in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert created this 70 meter-wide crater, when a Soviet rig hit a cavernous pocket of natural gas.
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Nargin Island
May 21, 2010 • #The island of Nargin in the Caspian Sea.
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