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The (formerly) secret midtown UFO parking lot. Shot with a Nikkor 60mm Micro, about as flat an image as you can get at that focal-length. By: Kevin Prichard Photography
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From approximately 220 miles above Earth, one of the Expedition 26 crew members aboard the International Space Station took this wintry picture of metropolitan New York City, which was bracing for its third heavy storm of the season. The crew member used a 70-mm focal length on a digital still camera to record the image. [...]
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“We choose to go to the Moon” As we sit at the precipice of a new era of exploration, I thought it appropriate to revisit the original inspiration and rationale for the first lunar exploration program as so eloquently stated by John F. Kennedy. The original speech by JFK was held in Houston, TX at [...]
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Alaid Volcano in the Kuril Islands of the Russian Federation is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 31 crew member on the International Space Station. The Kurils chain extends from the Kamchatka Peninsula to the islands of Japan, and contains numerous active volcanoes along its length. Alaid is the highest (2,339 meters above [...]
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Editor’s note: I’ve added this to our Hurricanes from Space photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157624837650141/ Katia was a tropical storm gathering energy over the Atlantic Ocean when one of the Expedition 28 crew members took this photo on Aug. 31 from aboard the International Space Station. The picture, taken with a 12-mm focal length, was captured at 14:09:01 [...]
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Tyndall Glacier, located in the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 16 crewmember on the International Space Station. This glacier, which has a measured total area of 331 square kilometers and length of 32 kilometers (1996 measurements), begins in the Patagonian Andes Mountains to the [...]
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