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Earth, Our Home Planet
Earth, our home planet, is the 3rd planet from the sun.
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The next Landsat satellite will monitor water supplies and retreating glaciers, among other things.
See how NASA's Landsat satellite constellation has revolutionized our understanding of Earth over 40 yearsa in this SPACE.com infographic.
The video shows the genesis of snowstorm Nemo was captured over two days by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite.
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission is slated to blast off Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The powerful storm expected to blanket the northeast United States in snow was spotted from space.
NOVA's new special, 'Earth From Space' provides a stunning look at our planet from an astounding perspective. Viewers will see Saharan dust fertilizing the Amazon, a deep submarine waterfall in Antarctica, and the Atlantic's hurricane generator.
In this image from the Envisat satellite, clouds cover the North Sea and sweep down to the strait between Denmark (lower-right corner) and Norway (upper-centre).
A storm from the Atlantic and cold air from Scandinavia combined to create snow conditions.
Moon Astronomy Lesson: Learn more about moon phases, a waxing and waning crescent or gibbous moon and the lunar cycles of Earth’s moon each month at SPACE.com.
On January 23rd, 2013, eruptions on the Sun sent coronal mass ejections in front of Mercury and in the direction of Earth (strong impact not expected). NASA's SDO and STEREO spacecrafts captured the imagery.
Suomi NPP satellite sees mass of marine layer clouds.
Watch from the International Space Station as high-altitude clouds glow.
Active volcanoes in Russia's Far East erupt simultaneously as a NASA satellite passes overhead.
This cool space wallpaper is a compilation of three radar images from the Japanese ALOS satellite and shows the Po River, which flows over 650 km from west to east across northern Italy as the country’s longest river.
The nine warmest years since 1880 have occurred since 2000, revealing a trend of global warming.
A recent photo of war-torn Syria from Space has Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield focused on peace on Earth.
NASA satellite catches nightglow rippling over Texas panhandle.
Scientists have discovered strange magnetic ropes hundreds of miles long above the poles of Venus.
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