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Earth, Our Home Planet

This NASA/NOAA GOES-13 satellite image shows the Earth on March 2, 2010 at 8:45 UTC.

Earth, our home planet, is the 3rd planet from the sun.

A satellite snapped the flames burning over a large swath of eastern Russia.
No London fog obscures this image of lights in the Olympic city.
See photos of the host cities of the Summer Olympics as viewed from space.
This cool space wallpaper from the Pleiades satellite shows the island of Mont Saint Michel and its surrounding bay in northwest France.
Thousands of voters chimed in to pick five dazzling winners.
These photos revealed war, natural disaster and human-caused changes to Earth.
These photos of Earth taken by Landsat over the past 40 years won the 'Earth as Art' contest.
The blaze of light hung provided a respite from the winter darkness.
The action happened in under two hours.
NASA astronaut Joe Acaba in space was awestruck by dazzling weekend southern lights on July 14 and 15.
Our planet probably formed within our nascent solar system's "snow line," contrary to prevailing theory.
Look for letters in NASA's satellite images of Earth.
Take a tour of our solar system with us – from the sun to the furthest dwarf planets! Come on, it can't hurt!
The extra light brought relief from Antarctica's long winter darkness.
In this space wallpaper, the contrasting landscape of the western US states of California (left) and Nevada (right) are highlighted in this Envisat image, acquired on 9 February 2011.
The blaze is only 25 percent contained.
Landsat satellite photos show the U.S. Army working to save an East Coast island.