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STS106-710-060 (8-20 September 2000) --- One of the STS-106 crew members on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis used a handheld 70mm camera to photograph this image of Cape Cod and parts of Massachusetts. Partial sun glint highlights the coastline and brings out subtle details in the waters around Massachusetts. The maximum advance of an ice sheet 23,000 years ago is marked by the unique shape of Cape Cod and by the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. Rocks and debris left at the edges of the ice fronts made parts of the landscape slightly higher and more resistant to erosion. Glacial retreat and sea level rise covered the lower ground and gave us the more modern coastline that we are familiar with. The city of New Bedford can be located near the coast and just below the circular lakes of Long Pond, Great Quiittacas Pond, and Assawompset Pond.
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STS073-725-031 (20 OCTOBER - 5 NOVEMBER 1995) --- The contrasting colors of fall in New England are captured on this northward-looking photo of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket Island, and the famous hook-shaped Cape Cod. Light-colored patches of urbanization are scattered throughout the scene, the most evident being the greater Boston area along the shores of Massachusetts Bay. The cape is composed of rock debris that, according to NASA scientists studying Columbia's photo collection, was deposited along the end of glacier some 20,000 years ago.
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S99-E-5331 (13 February 2000) --- The easily recognizable hook feature of Cape Cod and Cape Cod Bay, along with the cities of Plymouth and Boston, Massachusetts. An electronic still camera (ESC), mounted in one of Endeavour's aft flight deck windows, is recording imagery of hundreds of Earth targets for the EarthKAM project. Students across the United States and in France, Germany and Japan are taking photos throughout the STS-99 mission. And they are using these new photos, plus all the images already available in the EarthKAM system, to enhance their classroom learning in Earth and space science, social studies, geography, mathematics and more. For general EarthKAM information and more images from this flight, go to http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/
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STS090-E-5375 (29 April 1998) --- Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands off the coast of Massachusetts are featured in this 400mm view, photographed with an electronic still camera (ESC)from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia. The photo was taken at 13:12:06 GMT, April 29, 1998.
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STS073-E-5099 (30 October 1995) --- The entire coast of Massachusetts can be seen, from Martha's Vineyard and Buzzard's Bay in the foreground past the Boston metropolitan region. The frame was exposed with the Electronic Still Camera (ESC).
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ISS007-E-17770 (20 October 2003) --- Boston, Massachusetts was featured in this image taken by one of the Expedition 7 crewmembers onboard the International Space Station (ISS). The image provides a good view of the center of the city, including famous colonial and independence locations extending from Boston Common to the North End. Wispy clouds hover over the south end of Logan Airport. Ship traffic in the Charles and Mystic Rivers is marked by wakes of the ships. And highly reflective construction locations, including the new I-93 and the bridge over the Charles River, and highway exchanges at Logan Airport mark the new elements of Boston's Big Dig, which is the local transportation project that is now believed to be the largest civil engineering endeavor in U.S. history.
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STS091-718-037 (2-12 June 1998)--- This photo taken from the aft flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Discovery features Cape Cod, an easily recognizable hook-shaped peninsula in southeastern Massachusetts. Sandy and of glacial origin, it extends 65 miles (105 km) into the Atlantic Ocean, has a varying breadth of 1 to 20 miles (1.6-32 km), and is bounded by Cape Cod Bay (north and west), Buzzards Bay (west), and Vineyard and Nantucket sounds (south). The northern hook of the cape (embracing a recreation area of dunes, marshes, lakes, and pinewoods) was designated the Cape Cod National Seashore (area 68 square miles [176 square km]) in 1961. The Cape Cod Canal cuts across the base of the peninsula shortening the shipping distance between New York City and Boston by more than 75 miles (120 km) and forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. Cape Cod was named by Bartholomew Gosnold, an English explorer who visited its shores in 1602 and took aboard a "great store of codfish." In 1620 the Pilgrims landed at the site of Provincetown, on the hooked tip of Cape Cod, before proceeding to Plymouth.
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Noyes, Paul
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Winged Face
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Slate
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Noyes, Paul
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Winged Face
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Slate
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Lamson, 1709-1722 (Joseph, Nathaniel, Caleb)
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Winged Skull
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Slate
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Spauldin, Ithamar
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Architectural Design; Winged Face
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Slate
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Spauldin, Ithamar
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Architectural Design; Winged Face
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Slate
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Felton, Ebenezer and/or Felton, Robards
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Face
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Granite
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Barber/Barbur, Joseph
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Crossbones
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Slate
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Barber/Barbur, Joseph
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Face; Rosettes
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Slate
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Barber/Barbur, Joseph
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Face; Rosettes
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Slate
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Foster, 1764 and after (James III, Hopestill)
Ornamental carving
Winged Face
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Slate
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Foster, 1764 and after (James III, Hopestill)
Ornamental carving
Winged Face
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Slate
Ornamental carving
Face; Pinwheels; Rosettes
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Slate
Ornamental carving
Face; Pinwheels; Rosettes
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Slate
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Lamson, after 1789 (Joseph, Caleb, David)
Ornamental carving
Pinwheels; Winged Face
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Slate
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Lamson, after 1789 (Joseph, Caleb, David)
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Pinwheels; Winged Face
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Slate
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Park, 1766-1779 (William, John, Thomas)
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Face; Hourglass; Scroll; Winged Hourglass
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Slate
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Park, 1766-1779 (William, John, Thomas)
Ornamental carving
Face; Hourglass; Scroll; Winged Hourglass
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Slate
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Park, 1766-1779 (William, John, Thomas)
Ornamental carving
Face; Hourglass; Scroll; Winged Hourglass
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Slate
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Park, 1766-1779 (William, John, Thomas)
Ornamental carving
Face
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Slate
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Park, 1766-1779 (William, John, Thomas)
Ornamental carving
Face
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Slate
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Park, 1780-1784 (William, John, Thomas, John Jr.)
Ornamental carving
Fleur-de-Lis; Hourglass; Winged Face
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Slate
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