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Llullaillaco volcano on the Argentina-Chile border is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member on the International Space Station. The summit of Llullaillaco volcano has an elevation of 6,739 meters above sea level, making it the highest historically active volcano in the world. The current Llullaillaco stratovolcano — a typically high, [...]
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This photograph, featuring a landscape in the central Andes mountains near the Chile/Argentina border dominated by numerous volcanoes and associated landforms, was photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station. Layers of older sedimentary rocks are visible to the southeast (upper right). Many of the volcanic cones show grooves eroded by [...]
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Central Andes Mountains, Salar de Arizaro, Argentina are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the International Space Station. The high plains (3,000 to greater than 5,000 meters elevation, 13,000 to 19,000 feet) of the Andes Mountains, also known as the Puna, appear in the foreground of this photograph, with [...]
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The Rio Negro floodplain in Patagonia, Argentina is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member on the International Space Station. The Rio Negro is recognizable by astronaut crews from orbit as one of the most meandering rivers in South America. This is well illustrated in this view, where the entire river [...]
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Glacier outlet in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field of Chile is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 20 crew member on the International Space Station. The Southern Patagonian Ice Field of Chile and Argentina hosts a spectacular array of glaciers and associated glacial features within the southern Andes Mountains. Glaciers flowing downhill on [...]
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Fires in East Falkland Island in the South Atlantic Ocean are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 15 crewmember on the International Space Station. The Falkland Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, referred to by Argentina (which also claims the islands) as the Islas Malvinas. The main islands of East [...]
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