Egmont National Park in New Zealand with Mt. Taranaki at its center is seen in a Landsat 8 satellite image taken July 3, 2014 and released by NASA November 14, 2014.
An aerial view shows Doha's diplomatic area in Qatar.
An ipe (lapacho) tree is seen in this aerial view of the Amazon rainforest near the city of Novo Progresso, Para State, Brazil.
People sunbathe and swim at the beach of Wannsee, near Berlin, Germany.
An aerial view of Big Sur, the Santa Lucia coastal mountain range and the Los Padres National Forest, in California.
Heavy fog rolls by early in the morning near the Dubai Marina.
Late summer plankton blooms across much of Lake Ontario, one of North America's Great Lakes, in this photograph taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station courtesy of NASA. Microscopic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, can reach such large concentrations and color the water to such an extent that the change is visible from orbit.
An aerial view of a house in its compound in Leer, Unity State, South Sudan.
Oil goes into a tailings pond at the Suncor tar sands operations near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
Ha Long Bay is seen from a seaplane of Hai Au Aviation during its first flight from Hanoi to Ha Long.
Uprooted trees are pictured after a tornado hit Vilonia, Arkansas April 28, 2014.
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