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Earth, Our Home Planet
Earth, our home planet, is the 3rd planet from the sun.
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield captured a stunning picture of snow-covered volcanoes from the ISS.
La Reunion and Mauritius took a beating from the winds and rain.
This amazing space wallpaper of North and South America at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012.
See spectacular views of the Earth at night in 2012 as seen by NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite.
Landsat 5 will be decommissioned after documenting the changing face of our planet since 1984.
An auspicious day to some, an ordinary one to others.
Improvements help space telescope detect more terrestrial gamma-ray flashes.
See what the world looks like at night — from space.
See what the world looks like at night — from space.
The camera revealed a never-seen-before phenomenon.
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, yet still has shadowy secrets.
This Envisat image shows the island of Elba off Italy’s north western coast in this stunning space wallpaper.
Snow-covered Karymsky volcano's ash plume spied from space.
Ambient noise generated by the planet sheds light on its inner layers.
Fluffy bands of clouds march across Hudson Bay.
The map helps to measure sea level rise and ocean circulation.
The Tibesti Mountains, located mostly in Chad with the northern slopes extending into Libya, are captured in this amazing space wallpaper, acquired on March 4, 2012 by Envisat’s MERIS instrument.
Volcanoes cast shadows as one releases plume of steam and ash.
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