Earth from above

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Images of our world when snapped from above create a kaleidoscope of color that can cause you to wonder, "What exactly am I looking at?" Below, appreciate the Earth anew with a curated selection of bird's-eye views. 

Egmont National Park, New Zealand (Photo taken July 3, 2014 and released Nov. 14, 2014): Mt. Taranaki is seen at the center of an image taken by NASA's Landsat 8 satellite. | (REUTERS/NASA/USGS/Handout via Reuters)

Iguazu Falls, Argentina (June 9, 2014): Authorities were forced to close down the iconic Iguazu National Park for several days after heavy rainfall in the region caused the Parana, the river feeding into the falls, to flood. The tourist walkways and viewpoints that normally give way to breathtaking views of the falls were almost completely submerged. | (REUTERS/Raul Puentes)

Ha Long Bay, Vietnam (Sept. 8, 2014): The bay's more than 1,600 limestone islands and islets are largely uninhabited. | (REUTERS/Kham)

Pilbara region, Western Australia (Dec. 2, 2013): The Pilbara region, which is the size of Spain, has the world's largest known deposits of iron ore — it supplies nearly 45 percent of global trade in the mineral. Here, we see dried-up rivers in the region. (REUTERS/David Gray)

Lake Ontario: Late-summer plankton blooms across 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. | (REUTERS/NASA/Handout)

Adiyaman, Turkey (Nov. 10, 2014): The town of Susuz (center) is seen on the northern shore of the Ataturk dam. | (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis)

Pilbara region, Western Australia (Dec. 2, 2013): A road next to sand dunes covered in vegetation. | (REUTERS/David Gray)

Fort McMurray, Alberta (Sept. 17, 2014): Oil runs into a tailings pond at the Suncor tar sands operations. In 1967, Suncor helped pioneer the commercial development of Canada's oil sands, one of the largest petroleum resource basins in the world. | (REUTERS/Todd Korol)

Melbourne, Australia: A small dam (left) containing water is seen in a dry paddock, next to another that has been burned by a fire. | (REUTERS/David Gray)

 
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