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Queensland Coast Feeling Yasi’s Fury NASA image acquired Feb. 2, 2011 at 03:35 UTC Satellite: Aqua.

Tropical Cyclone Bianca off Western Australia (by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) - Space Rules

Since the advent of the space-age over five decades ago, more than thirty-five thousand man-made objects have been cataloged by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network. Nearly twenty-thousand of those objects remain in orbit today, ninety-four percent of which are non-functioning orbital debris. These figures do not include the hundreds-of-thousands of objects too small to be cataloged, but still large enough to pose a threat to approximately nine-hundred operational satellites in orbit around the Earth.

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—	DARPA Orbital Debris Removal (via topherchris) Space Rules but it needs some spring cleaning.

The Great Barrier Reef, Australia: Australian researchers have discovered that the European Space Agency satellite Envisat Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument can detect coral bleaching down to 10 metres deep. - Space Rules

NASA GOES 13 satellite image: East coast USA and Hurricane Earl 1 Sept. 2010 13:10 UTC - Space Rules

Eyjafjallajokull Volcano ash plume over the North Atlantic at 11:35 UTC 15 April 2010. Credit: NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team [Really big version]

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isay:

mabelmoments:

via rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov

oooh, Britain, you’re looking a bit nippy there, my love.

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adrifting:

I remember growing up being able to go down the street to the park on the river and see the shuttle launch. I recall walking down as a 5th grade class to this park one day to see it. This was in Jacksonville! We could see it that far away! Over 150 miles!

(photo via cheeseloaf)

That’s a great story.

If anyone wants to know where and when to look for spacecraft visit http://www.heavens-above.com

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Shark Habitats From Space : Discovery Channel

Nantucket Island, MA where a 1970s ~~documentary~~ feature film about a tourist munching great white shark was filmed. This image was taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station.

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