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Glory on the Brunt Ice Shelf
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Published November 16, 2010
One of NASA’s workhorse planes, the DC-8, is being used this month to provide critical insight on the health of the ice sheets and shelves at the southern tip of the world.
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Kilauea Lava Enters the Ocean
Published October 5, 2010
Lava from Kilauea Volcano flows into the ocean near Kalapana, Hawaii.
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Global Hawk, NASA’s New Remote-Controlled Plane
Published March 30, 2010
The Global Hawk, NASA's new remote-controlled airplane, banks for a landing over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base in California at the end of a test flight on October 23, 2009.
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Joanne Simpson, 1923-2010
Published March 9, 2010
Dr. Joanne Simpson (1923–2010) pores over reams of images of tropical clouds filmed during flights across the tropical Pacific. The photos and her hand-drawn maps of cloud formations became the foundation for her groundbreaking “hot towers” hypothesis about atmospheric circulation in the tropics.
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GOES-P Satellite Launches
Published March 6, 2010
This photo shows the GOES-P satellite launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 4, 2010.
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Earthrise 1966
Published November 15, 2008
Long before man journeyed to the moon and looked back at the tiny, fragile planet that houses humanity, lunar orbiters were sending back pictures of home.
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Chernobyl, Ukraine
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Published April 26, 2004
On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear power accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the Ukrainian-Belarus border. Toxic radionuclides like Cs137 and Sr90 contaminated an area of 155,000 square kilometers in what is today Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed, sickened from radiation-induced illnesses, or resettled to uncontaminated land. This image, taken from the Russian Mir spacecraft, shows Chernobyl and the surrounding countryside.
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The Blue Marble from Apollo 17
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Published January 31, 2001
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Polar Stratospheric Clouds
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Published May 26, 2000
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