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An optical display in diamond dust over Louisville, Colorado, US.
A sunset over the La Sal Mountains, southeastern Utah, US.
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A sunrise over the Front Range, Colorado, US.
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A halo encircles the sun over a Twin Otter aircraft at the Eureka, Canada airfield on Ellesmere Island.
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The northern lights arc over mountains lining a fjord, north of Tromso, Norway. This photograph was taken from the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn.
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A sunset over the Santa Cruz river path in Tucson, Arizona, US.
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An eruption of Cirrus over a Saguaro cacti covered hill, Tucson, ArizonA, US.
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A lenticular pile-up over the front range of the Colorado, Rocky Mountains, US.
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A classic and intense lenticular pile up over the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains on a windy autumn afternoon.
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The illuminated clouds over the lava lake in the caldera of the Kilauea volcano, Hawaii.
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