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Image from space, of the bushfires raging through the state of Victoria, Australia. By astronaut Chris Hadfield.

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Taken by a tug boat worker in West Australia, Brett Martin has captured the moment a huge storm met the sunset and through the wind and rain released a massive amount of red dust it had collected while hurtling over land. (source)

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Morning on the road by Mitja Kobal - Cwithe : Furkastrasse. Switzerland.

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Amanecer desde el Castillo de Monfrague / Dawn from Monfrague Castle by aes: Torrejón el Rubio, Caceres, Spain.

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La Paz, Bolivia (source in captions)

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 Rio–Antirrio bridge - Patra, Greece (credit)

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Afghanistan landscape by Spc. Ken Scar, 7th MPAD, The U.S. Army : U.S. Army Spc. Devon Boxa, 7-158th Aviation Regiment, admires the Afghanistan landscape out the back door of her CH-47D Chinook helicopter as another Chinook follows. The choppers were flying from Kabul to Jalalabad Dec. 17, 2010.

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富士山 Fujiyama 3.776 m by 5348 Frank off : Japan.

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Dinosaur Ridge, Seoraksan, part of Taebaek mountain range in South Korea.

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Waterfall - Iceland by Michael Reichmann

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Friends by Rishi S: Louisa Point, Matheran, India.

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Komodo National Park, Indonesia.

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Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China. (unattributed) 

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Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. (unattributed)

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Islands in the mist by Neil Walton: the Maldives.

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Does anyone want to live on a volcano island? A volcano within a volcano, Aogashima Island, a part of the Izu Archipelago, lies two hundred miles south of Tokyo, in the Philippine Sea. With a population of over 200, it’s an oasis from the rest of the world. Oh, and the volcano on the island is still ACTIVE. 

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Val Piora: Lago Cadagno e Lago Ritom by Massimo De Candido: Lake Ritom and Lake Cadagno, Piora Valley, Switzerland.