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Smoking Wildfires Seen From Space
Wildfires continue to rage across the western United States, burning forests and property alike, and even the most remote have…
Blue Marble 2012: The Arctic Edition
This latest portrait of Earth from NASA's Suomi NPP satellite puts the icy Arctic in the center, showing the ice…
When Everything On Earth Died
[/caption] Hey, remember that one time when 90% of all life on Earth got wiped out? I don't either. But…
Was Pluto Ever REALLY a Planet?
Ever since the infamous 2006 reclassification of Pluto off the list of "official" planets (which had a rather incendiary effect…
ESA: Unveiling Venus
[/caption] With Venus about to get its day in the Sun -- very much literally -- the European Space Agency…
Warhol Crater Gets Its 15 Minutes of Fame
[/caption] As pop art icon Andy Warhol said, "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes," and so…
From Russia With Love: A Singularly Stunning Image of Earth
[/caption] Unlike most satellite images of Earth, this one was not assembled from multiple swath scans or digitally projected onto…
More Evidence of Mars’ Watery Past
[/caption] ESA's Mars Express orbiter has sent back images revealing terrain that seems to have been sculpted by flowing water,…
Earthrise, Revisited
On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, William Anders and Jim Lovell were the first humans to witness…
MESSENGER Reveals Mercury’s Colors
[/caption] The subtle yet surprisingly varied colors of Mercury are revealed in the latest images from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, now…