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If you want to catch a (somewhat) rare planetary alignment in the night sky, find a clear area without much light pollution and set your gaze to the west right after sunset this evening. There ...
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, from a distance of around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface. [1]The original image (NASA designation AS17-148-22727) was taken by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt of the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon, and showed Earth with the South Pole facing upwards; since then, a cropped and rotated ...
NASA Earth science satellite fleet as of September 2020, planned through 2023. Earth observation satellite missions developed by the ESA as of 2019. Earth observation satellites are Earth-orbiting spacecraft with sensors used to collect imagery and measurements of the surface of the earth. These satellites are used to monitor short-term weather ...
English: View of Korean Peninsula at night from space; note the contrast between North Korea and South Korea in terms of lighting, with the only major point in the North having substantial light being Pyongyang, the nation's capital. Image is derived from a larger composite image of the globe at nighttime compiled by NASA.
Earlier this year, NASA updated its iconic "Blue Marble" image of the Earth, and last week, it released the first version of the "Black Marble," its image of the planet at night. We'll still have ...
Updated Mon, Apr 18, 2016 ยท 1 min read. Check out some of the most gorgeous footage ever caught of Earth. NASA astronauts have beamed down stunning 4K footage of our planet from the ISS using a ...
NASA has switched on the High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment, an internet stream that shows the station's view of our planet in real time; you can check it out below. Developed and run ...
Noctilucent clouds are composed of tiny crystals of water ice up to 100 nm in diameter [4] and exist at a height of about 76 to 85 km (249,000 to 279,000 ft), [5] higher than any other clouds in Earth's atmosphere. [6] Clouds in the Earth's lower atmosphere form when water collects on particles, but mesospheric clouds may form directly from ...