Posts Tagged "space"

sosuperawesome:

Courtesy of NASA’s Earth Observatory, here’s a look back at twenty of the most striking images of our home planet as seen from orbit in 2012.

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steroge:

Earth rises above the moon’s Ritz Crater in a view captured on Dec. 14, 1972, by Apollo 17’s Ronald Evans

“Forty years ago today, human beings took their last steps on the moon, and had their last look at Earth framed by the lunar horizon. […] No humans have seen an Earthrise like this one with their own eyes since Apollo 17’s crew began their homeward journey on Dec. 14, 1972.”

(Last look at Earthrise, 40 years later)

20 Stellar Views of Earth from Space in 2012 →

veronicahhh:

NASAEarth-13.jpgMelting on the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. In wintertime, snow and ice blanket Bylot Island in white, but in this Terra satellite image from July 22, 2012, Bylot’s glaciers contrast with its earth-toned land cover. Photographs of the glaciers taken between the nineteen-forties and the aughts reveal that many are rapidly retreating.

NASAEarth-14.jpgThe Great Pyramids at Giza. This July 25, 2012, photograph of Giza, Egypt, illustrates the degree of detail visible from the International Space Station using a long focal-length lens to provide high magnification. With good illumination of the scene and a steady hand on the camera, current off-the-shelf digital cameras on the I.S.S. can acquire detailed images to rival those of automated satellite sensors.

Astronaut photograph by the Expedition 32 crew, provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.