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Editor’s Note: This is an archive image from 2006. Gibraltar Bay, located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula in the western Mediterranean Sea, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 14 crewmember on the International Space Station. According to scientists, the famous Rock of Gibraltar that forms the northeastern border of [...]
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Editor’s Note: This is part of a larger Flickr set, "NASA Views Earth at Night," located here: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/ From 220 miles above Earth, one of the Expedition 26 crew members used a 32-mm lens to capture this night time image of much of the Florida peninsula. The picture needs to be rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise [...]
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Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and Michigan are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 28 crew member on the International Space Station. The twin cities of Sault Ste Marie are located across the St. Mary’s River that forms part of the international boundary between Canada (Province of Ontario) and the United States (State of [...]
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Ar Rub al Khali Sand Sea, Arabian Peninsula is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 27 crew member on the International Space Station. The Ar Rub al Khali, also known as the "Empty Quarter", is a large region of sand dunes and interdune flats known as a sand sea (or erg). This photograph [...]
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Editor’s note: Meant to add this earlier — hey, happy Friday to all! A nighttime view of Baltimore, Maryland is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 33 crew member in the International Space Station. Baltimore is located on the U.S. mid-Atlantic coastline along the terminus of the Patapsco River into Chesapeake Bay, and [...]
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Germany based Rheinmetall Defence continues to develop its high-energy laser (HEL) technology. The company recently announced a successful test of its new 50kW high-energy weapon. The 50kW HEL weapon was able to cut through a 15mm-thick steel girder at a distance of 1,000 meters. It also successfully shot down nose-diving target drones at a range [...]
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