Feb. 29, 2012
Embryonic Stars in Orion This new view of the Orion Nebula shows embryonic stars within extensive gas and dust clouds. Combining far-infrared observations from the Herschel Space Observatory and...
View ArticleLego gorillas. At the Bronx Zoo in New York. 7/29/11
Lego gorillas. At the Bronx Zoo in New York. 7/29/11
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Giant Planet and Giant Moon Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks small here, pictured to the right of the gas giant in this Cassini spacecraft view. Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across) is in...
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Every nature lover knows field guides, those handy compendia of the natural world. There are thousands of titles for birds alone, but microbes have been largely overlooked, even though their total...
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Baby Star Sprouting Jets NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope took this image of a baby star sprouting two identical jets (green lines emanating from fuzzy star). The jet on the right had been seen before in...
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Indus River This Envisat image shows western India and southern Pakistan, with the Indus River snaking through Pakistan’s Sindh province before emptying into the Arabian Sea. The red area in the...
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Kamchatka Peninsula This image, acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on Nov. 12, 2009, captures the rugged and remote Kamchatka Peninsula on Russia's East...
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Great Barrier Reef This Envisat image features one of the natural wonders of the world – the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea off the east coast of Queensland, Australia. Australian researchers have...
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Ireland Resembling the brush strokes of French Impressionist Claude Monet, electric blue-colored plankton blooms swirl in the North Atlantic Ocean off Ireland in this Envisat image. Plankton, the most...
View ArticleMagnetic North Pole
Magnetic North Pole Sea ice around the North Magnetic Pole, a wandering point on the Earth’s surface, is featured in this Envisat radar image, acquired on Dec. 8, 2008. Just as Earth has two geographic...
View ArticleHurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina as seen by Envisat's MERIS in Reduced Resolution mode, off southern Florida on Aug. 25, 2005, when it was still Category One on the Saffir-Simpson scale measuring...
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American West The contrasting landscape of the western U.S. states of California (left) and Nevada (right) are highlighted in this Envisat image, acquired Feb. 9, 2011. The Sierra Nevada mountain range...
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