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Science Faction - SF-A085 - At dusk, the streaks of passing car lights in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Swayambhunath, also known as the Monkey Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Inside the terminal at the new Hong Kong International Airport.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A flower pot atop a concrete stairwell near the top of a building, Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Buildings are tightly spaced in Kathmandu, Nepal, which abuts the foothills of the Himalaya mountain range.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A man sitting at a small store in the Thamel district of Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Two boys atop a roof in the Thamel district of Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A field of tall grass, Baragaon village, near Tumlingtar, eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Filling a copper water vessel with well water at Baragaon, a village near Tumlingtar in eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A Nepali Sherpa Porter, carrying a heavy load, walking through Baragaon Village, near the eastern Nepal village of Tumlingtar.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Nepali Sherpa Porter, carrying a heavy load, walking through Baragaon Village, near the eastern Nepal village of Tumlingtar

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A Nepali Woman, near the village of Khandbari, in eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Sherpa Porter with load, near village of Khandbari, eastern Nepal

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Sherpa Porter with load, near village of Khandbari, eastern Nepal, detailed view of load distribution

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A Nepali girl, resting atop a boulder, village of Chichila, eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Sherpa porters with loads, Baragaon village, near Tumlingtar, eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A Nepali boy holding a digital camera, Baragaon village, near Tumlingtar, eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A Nepali boy holding a digital camera, Baragaon village, near Tumlingtar, eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A Nepali woman, carrying harvest, in eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Unloading a passenger aircraft at a grass runway, eastern Nepal, village of Tumlingtar.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Chicken crossing a dirt road, in the village of Chichila, eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Unloading a passenger aircraft at a grass runway, eastern Nepal, village of Tumlingtar.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Young Nepali girl with digital camera, village of Chichila, eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Nepali villagers in back of four by four, village of Chichila, eastern Nepal

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A STOL, or short takeoff and landing aircraft launches from a grass strip at the eastern Nepal village of Tumlingtar.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A STOL, or short takeoff and landing aircraft launches into the sky from a grass strip at the eastern Nepal village of Tumlingtar.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Nepali woman, village of Num, eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A hiker walks under and past a sign signifying the entrance to Makalu-Barun National Park, located in eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Terraces on steep hillside near the village of Mure in eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A man in the foothills of the Himalaya, at the village of Hururu, talking on a cell phone.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Small solar panels provide power in remote villages in eastern Nepal. This thatched hut is near the village of Seduwa.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Small solar panels provide power in remote villages in eastern Nepal. This thatched hut is near the village of Seduwa.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A man in the foothills of the Himalaya, at the village of Hururu, talking on a cell phone.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A man in the foothills of the Himalaya, at the village of Hururu, talking on a cell phone.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A female Sherpa porter smiles before embarking on a trek toward Makalu Base Camp at the eastern Nepal village of Hururu.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Prayer flags and wildflowers at the village of Tashigon, in eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Prayer flags, and a stone monument called a chorten (a Tibetan version of a stupa), in the village of Khongma, eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Foothills of eastern Nepal's Himalayas at dawn.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Tea house at dawn, with prayer flags, in the village of Seduwa, eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A Nepalese mountain guide looks over the clouds while holding trekking poles during a trek to the base camp of Makalu.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A Nepalese mountain guide looks over the clouds while holding trekking poles during a trek to the base camp of Makalu.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Camp at Numbuk, a camp on the trek to Makalu base camp, eastern Nepal.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Tibetan Buddhist Prayer flags at Numbuk, a camp on the trek to Makalu base camp.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Tibetan Buddhist Prayer flags at Khongma, a camp on the trek to Makalu base camp.

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Jewelbox - SF-A085 - A photographer, standing atop a boulder in the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine, California, gazes at the east face of Mount Whitney and neighboring peaks. At 14,495 feet above sea level, Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States. To the south (left) of Mount Whitney are Keeler Needle, Day Needle, and Third Needle.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - An aerial view of Shiprock (or Ship Rock), a volcanic remnant (or neck) near Farmington, in northwestern New Mexico.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Dusk view of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge with streaks of vehicle lights and approaching fog, as seen from Yerba Buena Island.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A view of the city lights of San Francisco, just after dusk, from Yerba Buena Island.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - The lights from off road vehicles streak through the dusk on Sand Mountain, a large dune near Fallon, Nevada, under starlight.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A complex superior and fata morgana mirage, caused due to a strong thermal temperature inversion in the Tularosa Basin, shows a distant landform to appear much taller than in reality, as well as extremely contorted. The gypsum dunes of White Sands National Monument lay in the foreground.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Red tracer rounds mark the path of 7.62mm and .50 caliber rounds fired from U.S. Marine Corps helicopter gunships during nighttime close air support training.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A U.S. Marine Forward Air Controller peers at a building just set alight by a machine gun attack by a UH-1N gunship during live fire training near Yuma, Arizona.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A complex superior and fata morgana mirage, caused due to a strong thermal temperature inversion in the Tularosa Basin, shows a distant landform (a hill) to appear much taller than in reality, as well as extremely contorted. The gypsum dunes of White Sands National Monument lay in the foreground.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Gypsum dunes of White Sands National Monument show their texture and form under the press of afternoon light. The San Andres Mountains rise to the west.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Gypsum dunes of White Sands National Monument show their texture and form under the press of afternoon light. The San Andres Mountains rise to the west.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Each autumn groves of Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) explode in color in the shadows of Colorado's high Rocky Mountains

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Saline Valley is deep, broad valley near Death Valley in eastern California. Saline Valley is not actually a valley, as a valley is a physiographic feature caused by the incising action of running water. Saline Valley, like the other valleys of the Basin and Range province, are grabens, or sunken blocks of earth, with horsts, or upthrust mountain blocks on their borders. Seen here is one of the most dramatic views of a fault scarp on the western edge of Saline Valley.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Racetrack Valley, a small, remote valley west of Death Valley, has as its centerpiece a nearly oval shaped playa, or dry lake bed, hence the name Racetrack Valley. This nearly featureless playa is significantly broken at it's north end, where a bulbous mass of dolomite stands above the playa. Known as The Grandstand, this outcrop is being slowly buried from below, as with each passing storm, runoff adds more silt to the playa, engulfing all that stands above it.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - The Valle de la Luna, or Valley of the Moon, is one of the most salient natural gems of South America' s Atacama Desert. The Atacama is the driest place in the world, receiving an average of just one inch of rain per century. This aridity (and hence lack of vegetation) allows a lucid view into the structure of exposed geology. This image, taken at sunset, dramatically highlights tumultuous geologic folding as well as distant Andean giants. Digitally modified.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Nanga Parbat, the 9th highest mountain in the world at 8,125 meters (26,658 feet) above sea level, anchors the western end of the greater Himalaya proper. Nanga Parbat is located in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, in the Kashmir region, near the border with India. The Rupal Face is one of the climbing world's great faces, rising nearly three vertical miles into what mountaineers know as the Death Zone.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - At 22,589 feet above sea level, Ojos del Salado is the highest volcano in the world. While it is not active, it does have active fumaroles near its summit, and the remote volcano was seen to be erupting in 1934 by miners in the area. The volcano straddles the Chile - Argentina border. The crown of the Puna de Atacama, a region of high, dry peaks of the Andes, Ojos del Salado is climbed by relatively few. The Murray Hut is used for mountaineering expeditions.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Wind blows prairie sunflowers (Helianthus petiolaris) during late afternoon as cumulonimbus clouds coalesce above the Sangre de Cristo Range and the Great Sand Dunes of Southern Colorado. The Great Sand Dunes are created by wind blowing sediment of the Rio Grande river eastward, where this sand collects against the Sangres. The prairie sunflower grows in small depressions within the dune field. Afternoon storms are frequent during the summer months.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Changing color of a Fremont cottonwood and a rapid of the Virgin River, in Zion National Park, Utah.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Changing autumnal colors and the Watchman, in Zion National Park, Utah.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - The shadow of a photographer on a sandstone formation, South Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness area.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A man runs through an aspect of "The Wave," a curving sandstone formation in the Paria Wilderness, North Coyote Buttes, Utah.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Sunrise light on an arcuate form called The Wave in the Coyote Buttes, Pariah Wilderness, North Coyote Buttes, Utah.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Low light near sunset accentuates detail of off-road vehicle tracks on the Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, Utah.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - The ghostly image of a man exploring Rattlesnake Canyon, near Page, Arizona.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A dirt road in Utah's Valley of the Gods with Monument Valley in the background, with a 4X4 Sports Utility Vehicle on the dirt road in the foreground.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A dirt road in Utah's Valley of the Gods with Monument Valley in the background.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A group of horses graze on grass below the southern aspect of Shiprock, a volcanic remnant in northwest New Mexico.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A lone house sits below the high peaks of the Sangre de Cristo range of peaks, part of the Rocky Mountains of southern Colorado.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A bend in a dirt road under a quaking aspen during Autumn, near Telluride, Colorado.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A view of Sneffels Range, from the north, showing Mount Sneffels and a fence in foreground, near Telluride, Colorado.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A fence on Wilson Mesa below Wilson Peak, near Telluride, Colorado.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Pre-dawn view of the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, under a thick deck of fog.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - An aerial view of a dirt road that winds through the hills of the Coast Range near the town of Buellton, in Santa Barbara County, along California's Central Coast region.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - An aerial view of a large grader used to plane large swaths of earth.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - An aerial view of a tractor pulling a planing mechanism to grade an agricultural field.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A man jumps off of a boulder in California's Alabama Hills, under Mount Whitney, At dusk. Mount Whitney, near the California town of Lone Pine, is the highest mountain in the conterminous United States, at 14,495 feet above sea level.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - The Sears Tower, renamed Willis Tower, and the tower at 311 South Wacker Drive in Chicago

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - The San Clemente pier is a primary landmark in the southern California city of San Clemente, in Orange County.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - The Very Large Array, a complex of 27 independent movable radio observatories, lies on a high plain near Socorro, New Mexico. Scientists use the Very Large Array, or VLA, for deep space research.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - The Very Large Array, a complex of 27 independent movable radio observatories, lies on a high plain near Socorro, New Mexico. Scientists use the Very Large Array, or VLA, for deep space research.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - The Very Large Array, a complex of 27 independent movable radio observatories, lies on a high plain near Socorro, New Mexico. Scientists use the Very Large Array, or VLA, for deep space research.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - The Very Large Array, a complex of 27 independent movable radio observatories, lies on a high plain near Socorro, New Mexico. Scientists use the Very Large Array, or VLA, for deep space research.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - The Very Large Array, a complex of 27 independent movable radio observatories, lies on a high plain near Socorro, New Mexico. Scientists use the Very Large Array, or VLA, for deep space research.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - The Very Large Array, a complex of 27 independent movable radio observatories, lies on a high plain near Socorro, New Mexico. Scientists use the Very Large Array, or VLA, for deep space research.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - The Owens Valley Radio Observatory has a number of instruments in its array, including a 40 meter diameter radio telescope, a group of 27 meter solar radio telescopes, and a millimeter array.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Interstate 110 strikes through downtown Los Angeles. A time exposure captures the dusk light as well as the streaks of light of passing cars

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Interstate 110 strikes through downtown Los Angeles. A time exposure captures the dusk light as well as the streaks of light of passing cars

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A road in Zion National Park, Utah, strikes through trees with changing color leaves during Autumn.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - An aerial view of the USS Arizona Memorial at sunset, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Note the oil streak still visible. The line of white objects are memorial markers for the ships sunk on December 7, 1941.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - Lehua Island, an uninhabited crescent-shaped island off the northeast coast of the Hawaiian Island of Nihau, is an eroded tuff cone. Nihau Island, known as the Forbidden Island, lies across the Kaulakahi Channel from Kauai. Both Lehua and Nihau are rarely visited.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A U.S. Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight, known as a "Phrog," comes in to land at an unimproved helicopter landing zone in the high Sierra Nevada mountains of California, at the Mountain Warfare Training Center.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A saguaro cactus stand above a carpet of blooming spring desert wildflowers, mostly Indian paintbrush.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - An extreme storm known as the viento blanco, or white wind, rages on the summit of Aconcagua, the highest mountain in Argentina, all of South America, the Western Hemisphere, and the Southern Hemisphere.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - A local Afghan fighter is perched atop the pinnacle of a rock as he scans a suspected Al Qaeda training camp in the foothills of the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar Province. He is holding a Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle.

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Science Faction - SF-A085 - In the shadow of the volcano Cayambe, a figure walks through a field at sunrise, near the village of Cayambe, Ecuador, northeast of Quito.