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Some Strange Things Are Happening To Astronauts Returning To Earth
(if you click on the pictures you’ll see what city you’re looking at)
NASA: “We’ve discovered a previously unknown surprise circling Earth”
This is wild. NASA’s recently deployed Van Allen probes — a pair of robotic spacecraft launched just last August to investigate Earth’s eponymous pair of radiation belts — are already turning out some very unexpected findings. Chief among them: an ephemeral third ring of radiation, previously unknown to science, surrounding our planet.
Bumerangue: That’s my home town as seen from the ISS, on a picture taken yesterday by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
“Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, on the excellently named Lagoon of the Ducks”, he tweets. The North is on the right of the picture and I can totally see my house! Well, kind of.
Follow Cmdr. Hadfield on Twitter and see other great photos from space!
Earth.
Click-through for a look back at 20 of the most striking images of our home planet as seen from orbit in 2012: http://nyr.kr/UosuxW, images courtesy of NASA’s Earth Observatory,
It’s official: the Sun is the most perfect natural sphere ever measured
The Earth is not round, but the Sun — contrary to long-standing scientific belief — is a different story.
To be clear: the Earth certainly isn’t flat, but it’s definitely not a perfect sphere. Technically speaking, it’s an oblate spheroid — a sphere that’s been squashed, such that the distance from Earth’s center to sea level is about 13 miles greater at the equator than at its poles. Earth isn’t really smooth, either; in actuality, it’s kind of bumpy.
Knate Myers made this awesome HD video using still images of Earth captured from the ISS.
New Earth image at NASA Goddard Flickr account.
Check it out in higher resolution!
New satellite images of our home planet and its rivers released by NASA.
On march 7, Dutch astronaut André Kupiers took this picture from the ISS, showing the 50 kilometers wide rock formation called Eye of Africa. The structure sits in Mauritania, at the Sahara desert, and can only be seen from space.
Source: NASA, ESA.
