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NASA: Birds Eye View of Breckenridge Ski Area, CO, From the International Space Station

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This post first appeared on the NASA Earth Observatory website Looking down from space, the human presence is starkly apparent in how we light our cities, transport our manufactured products, and grow our food. Even the way we play is visible from hundreds of miles above. On May 1, 2021, an astronaut on board the International Space Station shot this […]

SnowBrains | May 17, 2021
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Happy Earth Day! | NASA’s Best Photos of Earth:

Nasa is marking Earth Day by releasing some of its best images of our planet taken from space – by its satellites, its research aircraft and astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) – in the past year. A Sky View of Earth From Suomi NPP. This composite image of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans was captured by six orbits of the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership spacecraft on April 9, 2015, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument. Tropical Cyclone Joalane can be seen over the Indian Ocean. Sea Ice Off East Antarctica’s Princess Astrid Coast. On April 5, 2015, the […]

SnowBrains | April 22, 2020
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NASA Investigating First Ever Crime Committed in Space (Allegedly…)

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NASA is reportedly investigating the first-ever crime to be committed in space. It’s being alleged that an astronaut accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse from the International Space Station. Related: Scientist is ‘First Man to be Charged with Attempted Murder in Antarctica’ | Plunged Knife into Colleague’s Heart Anne McClain, who has since returned to Earth, acknowledges accessing the account […]

SnowBrains | August 27, 2019
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Brain Post: 10 International Space Station Facts & a Video of Northern Lights from Space

Video of the Earth at night from the ISS with Northern Lights. The International Space Station (ISS) was launched on October 31st, 2000 at a cost you won’t believe.  If you’ve seen it fly by overhead, you know how fast it moves.  It’s hard to believe. 10 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FACTS: 1.  The ISS the biggest space ship ever built, […]

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Miles Clark | April 8, 2013
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