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Earth, Our Home Planet
Earth, our home planet, is the 3rd planet from the sun.
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Smoke is traveling far from the flames.
As raging wildfires burn around the country, their smoke is lofted high into the atmosphere and carried as far away as the East Coast, according to one model.
The moon's pull is slowing down Earth's rotation.
The area may contain precious minerals.
The magnetic fields of the Sun and Earth merge several times a day, opening up a pathway for high energy particles to pass from the Sun. With the help NASAs Multisphere Mulitscale mission their exact locations may be derived.
The silhouettes of Earth's tectonic boundaries stand out in bright color.
Space station astronauts captured staggering video of the huge Colorado wildfires.
See satellite views of the intense wildfires in Colorado and other U.S. western states in June 2012.
Glories appear as rings of color on Earth.
Some areas could get 2 feet of rain before Debby's gone.
Astronaut Andre Kuipers took this image of solar panels glinting in space in this amazing space wallpaper.
Sunspot AR 1504 unleashed an M Class flare on June 14th, 2012. The solar storm reached Earth, unraveling auroras in the magnetosphere on June 16th.
NASA's Suomi NPP satellite detected smoke from man-made agricultural fires around the border of China and Russia migrating across the Pacific. The satellite was launched in Fall 2011 on a climate change data recording mission.
The hole in the clouds was created by a high pressure area.
Modern scientists are studying the transit around the world like their 18th century predecessors did.
Contest offers a view of the Earth nobody else has.
A 42 foot space rock (asteroid 2012 JU) flew about 118,000 miles away from the Earth on May 13, 2012 (about half the distance from Earth to the Moon - 238,855 mi.). This time-lapsed and looped video shows the asteroid's orbit as it passes Earth.
The satellite has snapped stunning views of Earth from space.
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