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Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space


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Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island 5 \+ N& A7 `- d9 N& m2 E/ J
from its sandy beaches, or a volcanic island from its towering peaks is wonderful, experiencing them from above can be inspiring as well.
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3 o. Q6 F7 W, u$ w& I; X! u! ztvb now,tvbnow,bttvbWe’ve collected images taken by astronauts and satellites from space of some of the most interesting islands on the planet.公仔箱論壇3 h* f) f! T8 i
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Atafu Atoll, Tokelau, Pacific Ocean
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Around 500 people live on Atafu Atoll, mostly in a village that can be seen on the corner in the left of the image above. Atafu is just five tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb6 p/ x* m0 b7 t9 `
miles wide and is the smallest of three atolls in the Tokelau Islands, a New Zealand territory.
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8 E* ?, U: K/ t2 T1 FAtafu is made up of coral reefs that surrounded the flanks of a volcano that has since become inactive and submerged. Like many tropical
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Onekotan Island, Russia公仔箱論壇5 @, h! C+ a2 u1 X1 B1 X
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An island within an island was created after a big eruption around 9,000 years ago caused the peak of Onekotan’s volcano to collapse, forming
9 a, H6 x5 v. ^8 A公仔箱論壇a caldera that subsequently filled with water. The island inside the caldera is known as Krenitzyn Peak, which is the highest point on the
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- B7 a- F2 _- O1 [TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Onekotan is in Russia’s Kuril Islands between Japan and the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The islands were formed by volcanic activity
1 r9 G* @) ^& q# S2 y9 gtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbcaused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. Subduction can also generate some of the largest earthquakes
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captured by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on June 10, 2009.) K; d7 @; i. x3 p3 J
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Galapagos Islands, Pacific OceanTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。' a- u  P% J6 c+ m2 o1 j

$ P" h* z9 g6 ^, k5.39.217.76The Galapagos Islands are the tops of volcanoes on the sea floor off the coast of South America along the equator. The volcanic activity TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。& }- z% Z( b9 s& L2 R! X& W
that formed the islands is thought to be the result of a plume of hot mantle material rising from deep in the Earth’s interior.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。. U5 o/ m; W- E7 B% I4 [  v9 h
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The largest island, Isla Isabela, is made of the lava flows of six gently sloped shield volcanoes. The northernmost of Isabela’s volcanoes, 9 F  M# ]2 ~# R3 J# M1 C7 e' S
at the top of the image above, is Wolf Volcano, which has erupted at least nine times since 1797. This image was taken by the Landsat TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。& g6 t6 h1 @+ J$ m8 ?
7 satellite in 2001.
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The Maldives comprise 1,192 small coral islands adding up to just 115 square miles of territory. About 330,00 people live on the islands, 公仔箱論壇8 P" q# r- R, q
the average elevation of which is a little more than 3 feet. It is probably the lowest country in the world.
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This image of the North and South Malosmadulu Atolls was taken in 2002 by the ASTER instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.
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Henrietta Island, East Siberian Sea
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1 |' M( ~5 ^2 X( g# V5.39.217.76This glacier-covered Russian island is just 6 miles wide. Beneath the ice, the island is made up of 500-million-year-old volcanic rocks overlain by
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Eleuthera Island, BahamasTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。, s, Y3 P' @& @+ N" {( K/ E5 N
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The spectacular underwater formations to the west of Eleuthera Island are made of calcium carbonate sand that has been eroded off ' ?& [- k$ @0 W4 H7 T& R& Y# P. p
of coral reefs and deposited in dunes by ocean currents.
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& H" H0 J& ^$ |$ y" W' x  }2 X2 t5.39.217.76This 2002 image was captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Located in the middle of the Bahamas, Eleuthra Island
9 q9 z: x$ h1 o3 s# M' |& Xis 110 miles long, and in places just over a mile wide. Around 8,000 people live there./ N- p5 x; ?- C' Y' G
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Augustine Volcano, Alaska
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The most active volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian arc, Augustine Volcano’s biggest historical eruption occurred in 1883. It has been erupting for   K( D5 r4 T! v& f9 c1 P* u
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in April 2006, shows a steam or ash plume at the tail end of several months of explosive eruptions.
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Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
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- i( m- _8 K5 {- C$ o" f5 }2 T5.39.217.76The three largest islands in this image, and many smaller ones, make up Indonesia’s Komodo National Park which was established in 1980 to protect
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of two tectonic plates. This image was captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite in 2000.
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  F0 k0 O7 R. ]3 H3 _The Hawaiian Islands were formed by an upwelling plume of hot mantle material, called a hotspot. As the Pacific plate moved over the hotspot, it 公仔箱論壇' b3 P7 y) F7 T5 j
formed a chain of islands that first grew larger as they actively erupted, and then slowly eroded and sank below the surface of the ocean as the
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MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Oceantvb now,tvbnow,bttvb% x3 D3 `0 I# N+ h( |

* v. f# D4 ]  y; q* _$ _% JThe Hawaiian Islands were formed by an upwelling plume of hot mantle material, called a hotspot. As the Pacific plate moved over the hotspot, ! N5 R! K! d: f% D/ z
it formed a chain of islands that first grew larger as they actively erupted, and then slowly eroded and sank below the surface of the ocean as tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb* v6 i/ ~% s! l0 `9 R, D6 g
the crust beneath them cooled.& b3 P' }# W; Z8 L3 P

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3 O+ g- Z1 d3 L' K/ Z: drest of the islands, which get older from right to left, are Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai and Niihau. This image was captured
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to reach the layer of stratocumulus clouds pictured above. The result is a type of flow known as a von Karmen vortex street. This striking, curly
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by the Landsat 7 satellite in 1999.
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! G& f2 f* C: a7 C8 RAlso known as Caroline Island, Millennium Island is made of coral reefs that grew around a volcano, which is now underwater, leaving behind a
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aboard the International Space Station on July 1, 2009.

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