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A View from Space: Astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo from the Internatio…

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A View from Space: Astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo from the International Space Station today and write, «My favorite views from #space — just past #sunrise over the ocean.» The crew has been busy aboard the space station, recently performing health checks and humanoid robot upgrades. In the meantime, a trio of orbital residents is packing up gear as they prepare to return home in less than two weeks.
Image Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
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Look Up! It’s International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN), an annual event enco…

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Look Up! It’s International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN), an annual event encouraging people to ‘look up’ and take notice of the moon. In this image, the brightly lit metropolitan areas of Torino (Italy), Lyon, and Marseille (both in France) stand out amidst numerous smaller urban areas. The full moon reflects brightly on the water surface and also illuminates the tops of low patchy clouds over the border (center). This image was taken by a crew member aboard the International Space Station on April 28, 2010. Crew members orbiting Earth frequently collect images that include sunglint, or sunlight that reflects off a water surface at such an angle that it travels directly back towards the observer. Sunglint typically lends a mirror-like appearance to the water surface. During clear sky conditions reflected light from the moon can produce the same effect (moon glint) as illustrated in this view. The observer was looking towards the southeast at an oblique viewing angle at the time the image was taken; in other words, looking outwards from the station, not straight down towards Earth.
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Another stunning moon image for International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN), an…

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Another stunning moon image for International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN), an annual event encouraging people to ‘look up’ and take notice of the moon. This image from January 2012 is of the moon and Earth’s atmosphere as seen from the International Space Station.
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Our New Probe Will Study Earth’s Forests in 3-D: A laser-based instrument being …

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Our New Probe Will Study Earth’s Forests in 3-D: A laser-based instrument being developed for the International Space Station will provide a unique 3-D view of Earth’s forests, helping to fill in missing information about their role in the carbon cycle. Called the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation lidar, the instrument will be the first to systematically probe the depths of the forests from space. It will reveal the 3-D architecture of forests, as depicted in this artist’s concept. The unprecedented detail of these measurements will provide crucial information about the impact that trees have on the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

Image Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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Rolling Flows of Lava: As an island in the moist, atmospherically turbulent Nort…

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Rolling Flows of Lava: As an island in the moist, atmospherically turbulent North Atlantic, Iceland is often shrouded in cloud cover and hard to observe from space. And lately, the island is making some of its own cloud cover, as the Earth has split open between the Bardarbunga and Askja volcanoes and spewed lava and hot gas. The view of the Holuhraun lava field has been spectacular from the ground and from low-flying aircraft. Infrared imaging makes the view spectacular from space, too.

On Sept. 6, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this view of the ongoing eruption. The false-color images combine shortwave infrared, near infrared, and green light (OLI bands 6-5-3). Ice and the plume of steam and sulfur dioxide appear cyan and bright blue, while liquid water is navy blue. Bare or rocky ground around the Holuhraun lava field appears in shades of green or brown in this band combination. Fresh lava is bright orange and red. (Download this large image to see the same area in natural color.) Image Credit: NASA

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The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:48 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10….

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The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:48 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground. However — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.

This image was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and shows light in the 131 Angstrom wavelength, which is typically colorized in teal.

Image Credit: NASA/SDO

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Aboard the space station (@ISS), astronaut Reid Wiseman snapped this photo Sunda…

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Aboard the space station (@ISS), astronaut Reid Wiseman snapped this photo Sunday, Sept. 14. and wrote, «Nothing like a view of the #MilkyWay first thing on Sunday morning. Beautiful.» The crew began their first full workweek Monday as a three-person crew aboard the space station, while the three additional flight engineers who will round out the Expedition 41 crew spent the day training for next week’s launch to the orbiting complex.

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Our Airborne Campaigns Focus on Climate Impacts in the Arctic: This red plane is…

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Our Airborne Campaigns Focus on Climate Impacts in the Arctic: This red plane is a DHC-3 Otter, the plane flown in our Operation IceBridge-Alaska surveys of mountain glaciers in Alaska. Over the past few decades, average global temperatures have been on the rise, and this warming is happening two to three times faster in the Arctic. As the region’s summer comes to a close, We’re hard at work studying how rising temperatures are affecting the Arctic.

Our researchers this summer and fall are carrying out three Alaska-based airborne research campaigns aimed at measuring greenhouse gas concentrations near Earth’s surface, monitoring Alaskan glaciers, and collecting data on Arctic sea ice and clouds. Observations from these campaigns will give researchers a better understanding of how the Arctic is responding to rising temperatures.

Image Credit: NASA/Chris Larsen, University of Alaska-Fairbanks

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Photo by @CristinaMittermeier | In the remote corners of the Earth, indigenous c…

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Photo by @CristinaMittermeier | In the remote corners of the Earth, indigenous communities continue to practice sustainability and gratitude in their daily lives, as they have for millennia, inspiring us through inherited traditions. For example, in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, people live by a “sacred ecology” in which they believe that nature and its occurrences are ruled by spirits. I wonder how different our planet would be if every culture had such a revered and compassionate connection to our natural world? #FollowMe at @CristinaMittermeier and explore my feed for more photos of indigenous communities from around the world. #PapuaNewGuinea #culture #Earth #nature #photography



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Starry, Starry Sky from the Space Station: An Expedition 41 crew member aboard t…

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Starry, Starry Sky from the Space Station: An Expedition 41 crew member aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station on Sept. 13, 2014, captured this image of a starry sky. The white panel at left belonging to the ATV-5 spacecraft, which is docked with the orbital outpost, obstructs the view of Scorpius. The red star Antares is directly to the left of the bottom of the second ATV panel from the top. The two stars that are close together and on the lower left of the photo comprise Shaula, the tip of the scorpion’s tail. The open cluster close to Shaula is M7. The hardware at bottom right is part of one of the station’s solar panels.

Image Credit: NASA

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