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Earth, Our Home Planet
Earth, our home planet, is the 3rd planet from the sun.
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While flying over a stormy Africa, astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured stunning imagery of the Milky Way and the comet that lived.
The image taken by a DigitalGlobe satellite shows the vast cruise ship as it appears from space.
The tilt of the Earth's axis and it's variation in speed causes the graceful pattern.
Such blooms are common in the southern oceans during spring and summer.
A popular saying about the view from orbit — that the lines between countries aren't visible — is a myth, says one astronaut.
Measurements from above will lead to understanding what's under the volcano.
The Fukushima nuclear meltdown and climate changed factored into the doom decision.
Atomic scientist group to decide whether humanity is closer to doom.
A protective case protects the iPad from a 100,000-foot drop.
Attached to a weather balloon, an Apple iPad was lifted to over 100,000 feet and dropped back down to Earth encased in G-Form Extreme Edge case. It remained on throughout the drop and landed fully functional.
Mineral was discovered during Apollo 11 mission.
The failed Russian mission to one of Mars' small moons was captured by Thierry Legault and Emmanuel Rietsch ( http://legault.perso.sfr.fr ) on New Year's Day 2012. The spacecraft may crash back to Earth on January 15th.
The Earth passed its perihelion point of its orbit late on Jan. 4.
Right now, orbiting the Earth, human-made space debris bits number in the 10's of thousands. And the threat multiplies, even if no new rockets are launched. The director of a new IMAX documentary speaks about it.
It takes many years for these giants to melt.
Scientists at Caltech have used laboratory setups to put iron through the rigorous, high-pressure conditions inside the Earth to better understand its behavior there.
The Red Sea has a new inhabitant: a smoking island.
Scientists with lasers and mirrors are refining a new way to track the Earth's rotation.
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