All Blog Posts Tagged 'nasa' (8)

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Thanks to advances in technology, we're now able to see "unprecedented" new views of what our incredible Earth looks like at night. NASA's scientists have just unveiled these never-before-seen photos that are global composites of the Earth. In comparison to the "blue marble" image…

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Hurricane Sandy is expected to bring life-threatening flooding to the US mid-Atlantic coast and hurricane-force winds from Virginia to Massachusetts. Landfall is predicted along the southern New Jersey coast on Monday night, though most of the eastern United States will feel its fury. This includes the densely populated New York City where subways, buses and trains were shut down on Monday…

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Whether you're an avid stamp collector or a person who appreciates aerial photography, you'll want to check out this new collection of stamps. Called Earthscapes (Forever), the sheet of 15 stamps all provide an incredible bird's-eye-view of earth. Snapped by both NASA's satellites and photographers dangling from aircrafts, these photos show our world from high above - in heights ranging from…

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Though we're used to scouring the Internet, looking for the best photos of celestial happenings (see Supermoon and solar eclipse photos), for yesterday's transit of Venus we only had to look to…

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Josef Kellndorfer and Wayne Walker of the Woods Hole Research Center recently worked with the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey to create this highly detailed map of all the trees in America. Over six years, researchers assembled the national forest map from space-based radar, satellite sensors, computer models, and a massive amount of ground-based data. The…

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Canadian designer James White has created some very cool "unofficial" NASA patches for their newest missions. MAVEN, which stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, is set to launch in 2013. It will explore the planet’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind.



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Talk about a Picture of the Day! Look closely and you won't just see the International Space Station, you'll see the first image ever of a space shuttle docked to it! Released on June 7, 2011 by NASA, this sweet portrait shows a match made in heaven!



NASA calls the Endeavour space shuttle, "the vehicle that helped build the complex during the last decade."



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Colliding Galaxies

While NASA's Hubble is one of the largest and most well-known space telescope for astronomy, there are actually four large, powerful space-based telescope that fall under NASA's series of Great Observatories - Hubble, the now deorbited Compton Gamma Ray Observator (CGRO), Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) and Spitzer Space Telescope… Continue