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Photos of the Week: Frosty Morning, Meteor Shower, Surfing Santa

The successful splashdown of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, a 100-million-year-old fossil in Australia, an oil spill in rural Kansas, scenes from the World Cup in Qatar, and much more

By Alan Taylor
A person plays a piano outside on a foggy day, near a large concrete monument.
Sergey Bobok / AFP / Getty

The successful splashdown of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, a candlelit procession in Jerusalem, a 100-million-year-old fossil in Australia, an oil spill in rural Kansas, scenes from the World Cup in Qatar, tornado destruction in Louisiana, a war-damaged church in Ukraine, and much more

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Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.