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Earth, Our Home Planet
Earth, our home planet, is the 3rd planet from the sun.
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NASA's Aqua satellite spotted this unusual cloud pattern.
Seafloor features were known to amp up waves near coasts, but also affect them out at sea.
The eruptions are caused by discontinuities in the solar wind.
As the solar wind flows around Venus, it creates similar space weather effects as it does near Earth.
Our planet's history is more complicated than once thought.
The Italian peninsula can clearly be seen in this gorgeous night view.
Europe's Very Large Telescope captured this time-lapsed imagery of the crescent Moon illuminated by the phenomenon called earthshine. Sunlight bouncing off the Earth in the direction of the moon creates this surreal view.
Several large metropolitan cities along the U.S. East Coast are easily recognizable.
On February 13th, 2012, NASA's All-Sky camera in Georgia captured this meteor burning up in the night sky. There have multiple sighting of these slow moving space rocks this month, some of which made it as far as 31 miles above the Earth's surface.
The sun may have started out 2 to 5 percent more massive than it is now.
Russian scientists have drilled 13,000 feet below Antarctica to the Lake Vostok, sealed off to the world for at least 14 million years, and if life can be found there, it may be possible in similar conditions on Europa and Enceladus.
NASA's Suomi NPP satellite is snapping amazing views of Earth from space, but there's a secret to the photos.
The view of our planet from orbit can't be beat.
Space station astronauts caught this stunning panoramic view of nighttime in Europe.
Spectacular space images filled the last week of January, including one stunning photo from NASA's newest Earth-watching satellite and a brilliant image of a shooting star soaring over castle ruins.
A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP in this amazing space wallpaper.
NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite has sent back a stunning image of our home planet.
On January 19th, 2012, the Sun produced an M3-class solar flare and the ensuing coronal mass ejection was pointed towards Earth. Fierce geomagnetic storms are possible when it reaches the planet on January 21st.
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