Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiian Islands This Envisat radar image features six of Hawaii’s eight major volcanic islands. Visible from right to left are the Big Island of Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Maui, Lanai, Molokai and Oahu. In...
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Ten years ago on March 1, the European Space Agency launched an 8-ton satellite called Envisat that would deliver back to Earth some of the most beautiful images of our planet taken from space. Since...
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Yukon Delta This Envisat image features Alaska’s Yukon Delta, where the Yukon River fans out into a labyrinth of distributaries before emptying into the Bering Sea. The Yukon, North America’s...
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Hi-Res Milky Way Center This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas...
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Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle Ed Diment, Annie Diment and their colleagues, OptimalControl and Euphonica, built this 1:37 scale model of the Space Shuttle Discovery for display at the National Space Center in...
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Titan's Sea of Ligeia
Hydrocarbon Lakes and Rivers One of Titan’s most curious features is its collection of lakes and rivers filled with liquid hydrocarbons such as ethane and methane. Such compounds are found in natural...
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Amateur Jupiter Shot This image of Jupiter and its moons Io and Ganymede was acquired by amateur astronomer Damian Peach on Sept. 12, 2010, when Jupiter was close to opposition. South is up and the...
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Periodic Table
Periodic Table This brick model of the periodic table was part of Lego's Make Everything ad campaign, fitting since elements make up everything around us. The periodic table organizes elements,...
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New Titan surface map
New Surface Map Because Titan is a hazy world, with an atmosphere about twice as thick as Earth’s, it’s difficult for astronomical instruments to image its surface in visible light. By creatively...
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Bones Artist Cole Blaq's model of a spine, called Tuff to the Bones (above), is meant to depict "anatomy and the perception of genetic science from a view of a simple person," he wrote in an e-mail....
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Rendezvous in Space This image, taken on March 6, 1969, shows the Apollo 9 Command and Service Modules docked with the Lunar Module. Apollo 9 astronaut Dave Scott stands in the open hatch of the...
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