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Earth, Our Home Planet
Earth, our home planet, is the 3rd planet from the sun.
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Higher temperatures and a longer growing season mean some of Earth's chilliest regions are looking increasingly green, researchers say.
On March 7th, 2013, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory was in a position to observe the Earth passing in front of the Sun.
Camera will monitor environmental issues around globe.
Sea ice stretches farther north than usual this year.
CubeSats could someday be used for cheap, high-risk missions.
Scientists on skidoos search for space rocks.
See the top 10 cool facts about our natural satellite, the moon.
Sunlight reflects off mirrorlike water off the coast of the United States in this photo.
In this space wallpaper, a Landsat image from July 19, 2011 shows Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River in the southwestern United States.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program has made a 70-year global precipitation model. Continuing greenhouse gas emission levels (A2) produce a more severe outlook than an alternative (B1) based on worldwide cooperation in environmental policy.
Guinness World Records has honored Landsat 5's nearly 30 years in space.
"We'll have a big effect on this rock ", says Denton S. Ebel (Chair, Division of Physical Sciences - American Museum of Natural History) in a chat with SPACE.com about asteroid 2012 DA14's near-Earth flyby. Gravitational pull effects are examined.
This cool space wallpaper shows The Uvs Nuur Basin in Mongolia and the Russian Federation is the northernmost of the enclosed basins of Central Asia.
Former NASA astronaut Piers Sellers tells SPACE.com what it's like to see our home planet from above.
Watch as satellites reveal how hurricanes form and how dust fertilizes the Amazon.
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The orbit of 150-foot-wide asteroid space rock takes it within 17,200 miles of Earth at its closest approach on February 15th, 2013.
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission is set to lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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