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Clouds Over The Earth, Earth Under Clouds

Sun, 11 May 2008 18:05:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 30 stunning pictures taken mostly from space

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27. Earth Rises Over the Moon's Horizon, July 16, 1969
As Seen From the NASA Apollo 11 Spacecraft

1. Beautiful and Impressive View of a Storm Front, With Clouds – One Shaped Like a Long Tube-Ribbon – and the
Sky Painted in a Wonderful Mixture of Pink-Purple Tints, October 4, 2006

2. A Beautiful View of Huge Clouds Over Earth, August 20, 2007 at 22:17:35.634 GMT
As Seen From the International Space Station (Expedition 15)
Latitude (LAT): 51.3 · Longitude (LON):

3. Hurricane Gordon Over the Atlantic Ocean, September 17, 2006 at 18:15:36 GMT
As Seen From Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-115)

4. Rainbow-Colored Cloud, June 2, 2007
Norfolk, Commonwealth of Virginia, USA

5. Hurricane Isabel Over the Atlantic Ocean, September 15, 2003

6. A Detailed View of Hurricane Isabel's Cloudy Eye, Over the Atlantic Ocean

7. A Large Portion of Cloud-Covered Planet Earth Is Reflected In the Helmet Visor of NASA Astronaut Clayton C. Anderson, the
International Space Station (Expedition 15) Flight Engineer,

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Tags: clouds, sky, space, earth, wheather, photography, nasa

Aurora Season

Sun, 04 May 2008 10:04:06 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nasa.gov

Spring is Aurora Season

What are the signs of spring? They are as familiar as a blooming daffodil, a songbird at dawn, a surprising shaft of warmth from the afternoon sun. And, oh yes, don’t forget the aurora borealis. Spring is aurora season. For reasons not fully understood by scientists, the weeks around the vernal equinox are prone to Northern Lights. Canadians walking their dogs after dinner, Scandinavians popping out to the sauna, Alaskan Huskies on the Iditarod trail -- all they have to do is look up and behold, green curtains of light dancing across the night sky. Spring has arrived!

Auroras are much more than just pretty lights in the sky. Underlying each display is a potent geomagnetic storm with possible side-effects ranging from satellite malfunctions in orbit to power outages on terra firma. Telecommunications, air traffic, power grids and GPS systems are all vulnerable. In a society that relies increasingly on space technology, understanding these storms is vital.

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Cities at Night: View from Space

Sun, 04 May 2008 09:54:07 GMT

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Clip Source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Looking east from a location southwest of Ireland, an astronaut took this nighttime panorama of population centers in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Image ISS016-E-27034 was taken on February 1, 2008, using a 28 mm lens.

what about humanity’s signature footprint—cities? By day, cities viewed from space can blend into the countryside, or appear as gray smudges, depending on the style of development and size of the urban area.

Orange sodium vapor lights illuminate the port facilities of Long Beach, California, supporting the round-the-clock operations of one of the world’s busiest commercial cargo ports. Image ISS016-E-27162 was taken on February 4, 2008, using the 400 mm lens, providing superior resolution.

The “Vegas Strip” of casinos and hotels—reputed to be the brightest spot on Earth

The streets of Denver, Colorado, are aligned with the cardinal directions

night lights of Tokyo, Japan, have a blue-green glow that comes from mercury vapor lighting

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Send Your Name to the Moon

Sun, 04 May 2008 09:35:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nasa.gov

A list of names will travel along with LRO.

NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft.

The Send Your Name to the Moon Web site enables everyone to participate in the lunar adventure and place their names in orbit around the moon for years to come. Participants can submit their information at http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/, print a certificate and have their name entered into a database. The database will be placed on a microchip that will be integrated onto the spacecraft. The deadline for submitting names is June 27, 2008.

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Unmasking Skin

Sat, 26 May 2007 19:36:51 GMT

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Clip Source: magma.nationalgeographic.com

Five years ago Stevens was a volunteer firefighter. Now, preparing for his sixth major reconstructive surgery, he laughs. "I'm learning more about skin than I ever wanted to know."

If you took off your skin and laid it flat, it would cover an area of about 21 square feet (1.9 square meters), making it by far the body's largest organ

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Fourteen-year-old Jeramie Church suffers from a genetic defect known as xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), an inability to withstand ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

When he does go outside in daylight, he wears a $2,000 NASA-made full-body suit and ski goggles.

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Milky white skin and flaxen hair are telltale signs of albinism in college student Laura Aisling Miller. One in 17,000 persons of all races in the U.S. has some type of albinism, having inherited this genetic trait in which melanocytes, or melanin-producing cells, make less than the usual amount of pigment

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Hands seasoned by age spots and wrinkles from 87 years of living cradle soft newborn skin.

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