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Chunks of sea ice, melt ponds and open water are all seen in this image captured at an altitude of 1,500 feet by the NASA's Digital Mapping System instrument during an Operation IceBridge flight over the Chukchi Sea on Saturday, July 16, 2016.
NASA: First Six Months of 2016 Hottest Ever Recorded So Far

This image shows the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera and telescope, and the Earth - one million miles away.
New NASA Site Posts Daily EPIC Photos of Earth from Space

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Ari Friedlaender of Oregon State University tags a blue whale. Image collected under NOAA Fisheries permit.
How Blue Whales Manage to Get So Big Despite Eating Tiny Shrimp

Arctocephalus townsendi * Although named fur seals, Guadalupe fur seals are members of the Otariidae family, meaning they are more like sea lions.
Fur Seals on California Coast are Dying Due to Warmer Waters

Map showeing distribution of bottom-water dissolved oxygen from July 28 to August 3, west of the Mississippi River delta. Black lined areas — areas in red to deep red — have very little dissolved oxygen.
Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone' Bigger Than Average This Year

Remnants of the shipwreck in the seabed off of the North Carolina coast.
Mysterious 18th Century Shipwreck Found in North Carolina Coast

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