Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space

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  x& d. o1 S$ H6 R5.39.217.77:8898Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island
8 V) L% \/ ^) ]4 D& b+ V) P公仔箱論壇from its sandy beaches, or a volcanic island from its towering peaks is wonderful, experiencing them from above can be inspiring as well.
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1 x! g, R2 k3 z# [1 AWe’ve collected images taken by astronauts and satellites from space of some of the most interesting islands on the planet.( \! |1 y7 m2 Q& G* x

$ o( ~( |5 ^' |7 O5 v4 DAtafu Atoll, Tokelau, Pacific Ocean
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1 }; p! }( s9 ~Around 500 people live on Atafu Atoll, mostly in a village that can be seen on the corner in the left of the image above. Atafu is just five
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) J! y3 z: D, n9 Y3 h- ]7 @9 x5.39.217.77:8898Atafu is made up of coral reefs that surrounded the flanks of a volcano that has since become inactive and submerged. Like many tropical 7 B8 \) a, J# l
atolls, Atafu is very low lying and vulnerable to sea-level rise. This photograph was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station in January.' @0 n' U4 L5 p/ A2 `' d) Z
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8 }* M. m3 I3 P. T9 L9 o7 jOnekotan Island, Russia
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An island within an island was created after a big eruption around 9,000 years ago caused the peak of Onekotan’s volcano to collapse, forming
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Onekotan is in Russia’s Kuril Islands between Japan and the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The islands were formed by volcanic activity TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。; v# q6 Z$ c/ }9 X* E# |& s
caused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. Subduction can also generate some of the largest earthquakes
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The Galapagos Islands are the tops of volcanoes on the sea floor off the coast of South America along the equator. The volcanic activity TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。3 c9 Z  ]: y( G5 N% k' ~4 |! ]$ r
that formed the islands is thought to be the result of a plume of hot mantle material rising from deep in the Earth’s interior.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb5 @; C; @7 ]1 `5 u* o5 v0 d

' _$ V$ ?! Z$ [; C$ C# b1 sThe largest island, Isla Isabela, is made of the lava flows of six gently sloped shield volcanoes. The northernmost of Isabela’s volcanoes,
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7 satellite in 2001.
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Maldives, Indian Ocean
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The Maldives comprise 1,192 small coral islands adding up to just 115 square miles of territory. About 330,00 people live on the islands,
* [9 K! S9 h: |! {公仔箱論壇the average elevation of which is a little more than 3 feet. It is probably the lowest country in the world.: a. P9 C6 P) \' }
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This image of the North and South Malosmadulu Atolls was taken in 2002 by the ASTER instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.) D2 S5 [  {8 z. ^! {& Y6 ?
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This glacier-covered Russian island is just 6 miles wide. Beneath the ice, the island is made up of 500-million-year-old volcanic rocks overlain by
) N; A$ I1 Q8 k5.39.217.77:8898younger sedimentary rocks. This image was taken by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite on April 30, 2009.
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# L( E6 F  y5 t0 {9 @tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbEleuthera Island, Bahamas
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The spectacular underwater formations to the west of Eleuthera Island are made of calcium carbonate sand that has been eroded off 公仔箱論壇" f. M9 E0 j, [. G0 A* k* Q/ Y
of coral reefs and deposited in dunes by ocean currents.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。' f8 d4 d* i8 \8 }
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This 2002 image was captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Located in the middle of the Bahamas, Eleuthra Island
6 M, l7 y( @9 D) j2 iis 110 miles long, and in places just over a mile wide. Around 8,000 people live there.
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! r8 p9 R% \, j/ k! |/ ytvb now,tvbnow,bttvbAugustine Volcano, Alaska
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3 _8 x# P% p1 S5 @) @5.39.217.77:8898The most active volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian arc, Augustine Volcano’s biggest historical eruption occurred in 1883. It has been erupting for TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。$ {7 n+ ^: ~: W
40,000 years. This image, captured by The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA ’s Terra satellite
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The three largest islands in this image, and many smaller ones, make up Indonesia’s Komodo National Park which was established in 1980 to protect
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of two tectonic plates. This image was captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite in 2000.
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Hawaiian Islands, Pacific OceanTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。* q* G2 d, l2 w  Y; C8 \

( n4 [1 o- u6 n0 d4 t% kThe Hawaiian Islands were formed by an upwelling plume of hot mantle material, called a hotspot. As the Pacific plate moved over the hotspot, it
& G, ]8 T! A$ b7 s+ T1 kformed a chain of islands that first grew larger as they actively erupted, and then slowly eroded and sank below the surface of the ocean as the
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Today, the hotspot is causing active volcanism on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea Volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. The rest 公仔箱論壇% ~1 S! l8 i! n) L5 O' _
of the islands, which get older from right to left, are Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai and Niihau. This image was captured by the TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。: |, V+ V) \: ]% k+ w: W
MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean5.39.217.77:8898% G& U& W+ d/ c' o
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The Hawaiian Islands were formed by an upwelling plume of hot mantle material, called a hotspot. As the Pacific plate moved over the hotspot, 4 e, C6 Q0 P1 U/ f4 X1 @+ X" T- m
it formed a chain of islands that first grew larger as they actively erupted, and then slowly eroded and sank below the surface of the ocean as 3 s9 X- A, u, g5 Q
the crust beneath them cooled.
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Today, the hotspot is causing active volcanism on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea Volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. The
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by the MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.公仔箱論壇$ I. L) J/ a4 h9 J: O. C0 ]
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  q# z: O; f# ]Alejandro Selkirk Island, South Pacific Ocean
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3 c  h* v( }0 EThis small member of the Juan Fernandez Islands off the coast of Chile measures just under a mile across. But its 5,000 feet of elevation is high enough
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by the Landsat 7 satellite in 1999.
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9 L& ]: V# F; l  p5 g. w5.39.217.77:8898Millennium Island, Republic of Kiribati, South Pacific Ocean
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central lagoon. The maximum elevation of the island is less than 20 feet above sea level. In the past, the island has been inhabited and mined TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。- f% q+ O9 D# `" c
for guano, though today there are no people and it is among the world’s most pristine tropical islands. This image was taken by astronauts
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