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How NASA saw the Earth from space in June

Wildfires, swirls of cloud and a perfect blue marble…

THE NASA EARTH Observatory project regularly yields spectacular images of this planet from its space-eye viewpoint.

Last month was a particularly fruitful one – check out some of the most stunning, menacing, beautiful and breath-taking images of Earth in June 2012:

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Venus crossing the sun, June 7, 2012
Paradise island of Tahiti, June 10, 2012
Dust storm over the Persian Gulf, June 06, 2012
Polar mesospheric clouds, Northern Hemisphere, June 25, 2012
Arctic Circle and the Earth, June 22, 2012
Wildfires across Colorado, June 23, 2012
Melting ice in Hudson Bay, June 5, 2012

All images courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory’s Flickr photostream

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How NASA saw the Earth from space in June

Venus crossing the sun, June 7, 2012

Paradise island of Tahiti, June 10, 2012

Dust storm over the Persian Gulf, June 06, 2012

Polar mesospheric clouds, Northern Hemisphere, June 25, 2012

Arctic Circle and the Earth, June 22, 2012

Wildfires across Colorado, June 23, 2012

Melting ice in Hudson Bay, June 5, 2012