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earthobservatory.nasa.gov
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| | The underlying base map for the Earth Observatory Explorer browse tool.
| | www.freep.com
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| | Though most of May was dry, daysof torrential rainfall that caused dam failures and catastrophic flooding in Midland County also fueled the Great Lakes' rise.
| | simanaitissays.com
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| | THE INTERESTING FACTS website offered a tidbit that the Great Lakes hold more that 20 percent of the world's fresh water, six quadrillion gallons of it: "That's so much water," Interesting Facts recounts, "that if you spilled the entire contents of the Great Lakes throughout the Lower 48, the entire contiguous U.S. would be submerged...
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| I get a lot of questions asking why the James Webb Space Telescope is infrared, and how its images can hope to compare to the (primarily) optical Hubble Space Telescope. Why would NASA build something that isn't going to capture beautiful images exactly like Hubble does? The short answer to this is that JWST will absolutely capture beautiful images of the universe, even if it won't see exactly what Hubble does. (Spoiler: it will see a lot of things even better.) There are legit scientific reasons for JWS...