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Festival de méandres
« Parfois la rivière se tortille avant de se détendre comme un élastique. Ici les méandres s'en sont donné à cœur joie ! La route en haut à gauche donne une idée de l'échelle... »
Unbelievable shapes
"Colorado and its affluents have some unbelievable shapes! This river was hypnotising… A road in the upper right corner shows scale…”
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Green River, Colorado, États-Unis
Thomas Pesquet, Proxima mission image 14/04/2017