The image was taken by the Electro-L, Russia's latest weather satellite, and unlike famous NASA images of our planet, it was taken in one single shot, at a massive resolution of 121 megapixels. full story ![]()

One of the most amazing photographs ever taken has been captured by Nasa scientists - from Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft, which is currently in orbit around the massive ringed planet, took the picture in 2012. The image shows a tiny pixel shining bright in the sky between the dramatic rings of ice and rock. That pixel is in fact the hot and toxic world of Venus. The...
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Working with the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and Time magazine, search giant Google has unveiled a project that shows how planet Earth has changed over the course of a quarter century. Compiled from millions of Landsat satellite images, one can see the retreat of a...
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Google, NASA, USGS and TIME have released a set of photos that show a "picture of Earth through time." It is stunning to see Amazon rainforest shrink and a glacier vanish. Impressive
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Weather satellite Meteosat-9 captures photos of the space rock streaking toward Earth.
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A rocket carrying an Earth-observing satellite launched Monday from a seaside military base to continue a mission to document changes to the planet's natural resources.
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A Planck satellite image shows the cosmos as it appeared only 380,000 years after the Big Bang.
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In response to a request posted by bloggers in social networks, Russian space officials have agreed to adjust the work of cameras on a weather satellite to take detailed pictures of the lunar shadow as it moves around the Earth during the May 10 solar eclipse.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this amazing image of Venus, which is so far from Saturn it only shows up as a white dot, just above and to the right of the image center.
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A rocket carrying an Earth observation satellite is scheduled to blast off from the California coast on a mission to keep a continuous eye on the planet's resources.
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A rocket carrying an Earth observation satellite is scheduled to blast off from the California coast on a mission to keep a continuous eye on the planet's resources.
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