Southern Patagonia Icefield As Seen From Orbit
This grand panorama of the Southern Patagonia Icefield (center) was imaged by an Expedition 38 crew member on the International Space Station on one of the rare clear days in the southern Andes Mountains.
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Hubble Sees Asteroid P/2013 R3 Disintegrating
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid, which has fragmented into as many as ten smaller pieces.
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Sounding Rocket Launches Into Aurora Over Venetie, Alaska
On March 3, 2014, at 6:09 a.m. EST, a NASA-funded sounding rocket launched straight into an aurora over Venetie, Alaska.
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Source Region for Possible Europa Plumes
This reprojection of the official USGS basemap of Jupiter's moon Europa is centered at the estimated source region for potential water vapor plumes that might have been detected using the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Ice on the Great Lakes in False Color Infrared
On Feb. 19, 2014 the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the Great Lakes and captured this striking false-colored image of the heavily frozen Great Lakes - one of the hardest freeze-ups in four decades.
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Moon Setting Over Earth As Seen From ISS
@Astro_Wakata: The moon setting on the blue earth atmosphere. pic.twitter.com/ZyTVD5ockm
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Coronal Loops in an Active Region of the Sun
An active region of the sun just rotating into the view of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory gives a profile view of coronal loops over about a two-day period, from Feb. 8-10, 2014.
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Proba-V Looks Down At The Ganges River
More than 5000 images, 65 daily global maps and six 10-day global syntheses, plus a quick peek at the Olympics.
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Satellite Image Shows Large Storm Heading for Europe
This composite image shows the weather situation over Europe at 12:00 UTC on 13 February 2014.
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First Global Geologic Map of Ganymede
More than 400 years after its discovery by Galileo, the largest moon in the solar system has finally claimed a spot on the map.