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Orbital View: Four-for-One Deal

By Marina Koren
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021.

A quartet of terrestrial patterns:

Variation on a theme.

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About the Author

Marina Koren is a former staff writer at The Atlantic.