The Parana River floodplain along the Mato Grosso–Sao Paulo border, Brazil is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 30 crew member on the International Space Station. The Parana River appears as a wide, blue strip across this photograph, with muddy brown water of the smaller Verde River entering from the northwest (top left). [...]
Rio Jurua in Brazil is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 15 crewmember on the International Space Station. The center point of this image is about 8 degrees, 33.8 minutes south latitude and 72 degrees, 49.7 minutes west longitude. North is to the bottom of the image. Image/caption credit: NASA Read full caption: [...]
Fires along the Rio Xingu, Brazil are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 29 crew member on the International Space Station. The rain forest of South America, also known as "Amazonia" — the largest such forest on Earth — has been undergoing a continual and accelerated land use conversion process into farmlands (including [...]
Sao Simao Reservoir, Brazil is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 16 crewmember on the International Space Station (ISS). The Sao Simao reservoir, near the confluence of the Rio Paranaiba and Rio Verde in Brazil, is the featured subject in a milestone image of Earth. This colorful, patchwork image is the 300,000th image [...]
PARIS — An Air France passenger jet traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared and was presumed to have crashed after its electrical systems malfunctioned during a violent electric storm on Sunday evening. Officials said Monday that a search had begun for the wreckage in a vast swath of the Atlantic Ocean. Enlarge This [...]
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