These photos remind us how big the universe is (and how small we are)…
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Extreme Ice Survey team member Adam LeWinter overlooks Birthday Canyon, Greenland Ice Sheet, Greenland, 28 June 2009.
Photo: James Balog/Aurora Photos
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A huge ocean storm in Porto, Portugal, January 2013.
Photo: “Rage” by Veselin Malinov
A storm cloud over a farm in Lodgepole, NE, June 22, 2012.
Photo: “Lovely Monster Over the Farm” by Camille Seaman
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An aerial view of a beach in Spain.
Photo: “Benidorm #1 Spain,” 2010 © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Howard Greenberg Gallery and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
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Sunset at Xingping, China.
Photo: James Bian
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An aerial photograph of the Thjorsá River in Iceland.
Photo: “Thjorsá River #1, Iceland, 2012” © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Howard Greenberg Gallery and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York