Online Extras: News to Note
PHOTOS: Satellites take artistic views of Earth
The accompanying images were taken by NASA satellites and a joint NASA/U.S. Geological Survey satellite, which orbits about 440 miles above Earth collecting data that are used to study changes in land cover, forest growth, water resources and the atmosphere.
Irrigation systems near Garden City, Kansas: Light colors are harvested fields; red are still growing. 
Rare rock and ice are bright red in this image of eastern Russia's dormant Anyuyskiy volcano. 
The Empty Quarter, in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, is a huge sand desert. 
Lake Disappointment, amid sand dunes in western Australia, has salty deposits that look white.
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World's flight paths artfully mapped
Clockwise from top left: Europe has the greatest concentration of short-hop flights; Atlanta is home to the busiest U.S. airport, though the densest concentration of flights is along the Atlantic seaboard; global flight map traces the city-to-city routes of some 58,000 flights, with dim blue lines for long, individual routes and brighter spots where short flights overlap and intersect.
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Cat blamed for house fire
A cat is blamed for the fire that destroyed the living room of this home in Chesterfield, Ind. (Photo by The Herald-Bulletin)
- Monday, May 27, 2013
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Bone of prehistoric animal found in Indiana
Highway worker Bob James displays the upper leg bone of the prehistoric mammal he found May 17 in western Indiana. (Photo by Joseph C. Garza/Terre Haute, Ind., Tribune-Star)
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