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We’re celebrating #NationalParkWeek by admiring national parks from space. Our NASAEarth research on land and in space helps us increase our understanding of our home planet, improve lives, and safeguard our future and places we love:⁣ ⁣ Sequoia National Park, California: Naked peaks, sheltered valleys, snowfields, towering trees, and alpine meadows make up the varied landscape, captured by Landsat 5 satellite in this true-color image on Oct. 22, 2008. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image created by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data provided by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Global Visualization Viewer.⁣ ⁣ Grand Canyon, Arizona: On April 3, 2017, the student-controlled EarthKAM camera aboard the ISS captured this photograph of the Grand Canyon. The colors of the landscape range from a light dusty brown to a dark velvet brown. The landscape is textured with jagged scarring that winds around the image. White snow dusts the landscape on the right side of the image. Credit: Sally Ride Eart...

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