Expanse of the Earth
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| A general view of lightning striking over the city of Kobe in Japan |
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| Waves wash over rocks that fringe Sydney Harbour |
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| A rock sand formation is seen in the El Cuzco region of the Tatacoa Desert in southwest Colombia |
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| Workers harvest soy in a farm in Mato Grosso, Brazil |
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| A mass of ice broken off from the Upsala glacier floats on the waters of Lago Argentino in Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, southwest of Argentina in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz |
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| A foraging Emperor penguin preens on snow-covered sea ice around the base of the active volcano Mount Erebus, near McMurdo Station, the largest U.S. Science base in Antarctica |
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| Istanbul's financial district, Levent district, which comprises of leading Turkish companies' headquarters and popular shopping malls, is seen from the observation deck of Sapphire Tower in Istanbul |
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| A dead tree behind a barbed-wire fence stands in the drought-effected farming area of the McLaren Vale region in South Australia, 80 kilometers south-east of Adelaide |
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| Tourists explore sand dunes in the Mauritanian desert near the capital Nouakchott |
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| A typical landscape in the Val d'Orcia close to the Tuscan town of Montalcino in central Italy |
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| A typical landscape in the Val d'Orcia close to the Tuscan town of Montalcino in central Italy |
(Source: Reuters)
