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Herbal Earth: Spectacular Vegetation Views of Our Home Planet and the Natural World of Living Green Life
Earth’s Vegetation from Suomi NPP satellite. World map of vegetation data collected by the Suomi NPP satellite (National Polar-orbiting Partnership)…
Say Cheese: Cassini to Snap Another “Pale Blue Dot” Picture of Earth
Citizens of Earth, get ready for your Cassini close-up: once again the spacecraft is preparing to capture images of Saturn…
Navy Researchers Put Dark Lightning to the SWORD
Discovered "by accident" by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in 2010, dark lightning is a surprisingly powerful -- yet invisible…
An Early Start for Noctilucent Clouds
The season for noctilucent "night-shining" clouds is arriving in the northern hemisphere, when wispy, glowing tendrils of high-altitude ice crystals…
What Does Antarctica Look Like Under the Ice?
Although it sits isolated at the "bottom of the world" Antarctica is one of the most influential continents on Earth,…
Is This What a Mars Outpost Will Look Like from Orbit?
This sure looks like a futuristic settlement on the Red Planet, as Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano pondered on Twitter yesterday…
Swath of Destruction from Deadly Oklahoma Tornado Visible from Space
The tornado that devastated the region around Moore and Newcastle, Oklahoma on May 20, 2013 has been determined to be…
Stunning View of Earth and Orbital Sunset from the Space Station
This is just a gorgeous shot of our home planet from the International Space Station, shared by astronaut Karen Nyberg…
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Boeing Commercial Space Taxi and Atlas V Launcher Move Closer to Blastoff
The next time that American astronauts launch to space from American soil it will surely be aboard one of the…
How Old Is The Earth?
This article comes from the Universe Today archive, but was updated with this spiffy video. How old is the Earth?…