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If Earth had Rings like Saturn

May 22, 2013

If Earth had Rings like Saturn

Earth is a very lucky planet to have its beautiful moon, offering us romantic moonlit nights. But what if our Blue planet had rings like Saturn?

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Extraterestrial wheeled machines records

May 17, 2013

Extraterestrial wheeled machines records

Just released by NASA this chart presenting the distances traveled by wheeled machines we send on the Moon and MarsHave a look at the full version of the chart…

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Solar Eclipse with Airplane

May 14, 2013

Solar Eclipse with Airplane

Photographer Phillip Calais who toke this impressive solar eclipse photo, said: It was just eight minutes after sunrise, last week, and already there were four things in front of the Sun. The largest and most notable was Earth’s Moon, obscuring a big chunk of the Sun’s lower limb as it moved across the solar disk, as viewed from Fremantle, Australia.    Image ©  Phillip Calais.     Used with permission.

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Cape York Annular Eclipse

May 11, 2013

Cape York Annular Eclipse

Annular Eclipse in the morning of May 10. The shadow of the New Moon fell on planet Earth, crossing Queensland’s Cape York in northern Australia for the second time in six months.    Image © Courtesy Cameron McCarty – MWV Observatory

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Omega Speedmaster Dark Side of the Moon

April 25, 2013

Omega Speedmaster Dark Side of the Moon

This is the new Omega Speedmaster Ceramic Dark Side of the Moon, a 44mm black ceramic case, automatic mechanical Omega coaxial caliber 9300.   Image © OMEGA

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Moon’s Saturn

April 15, 2013

Moon's Saturn

This sharp image Saturn is captured emerging from behind the Moon, giving the illusion that it lies just beyond the Moon’s bright edge. Of course, the Moon is a mere 400 thousand kilometers away, compared to Saturn’s distance of 1.4 billion kilometers.  Image © Jens Hackmann

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Moon Rise LA

April 11, 2013

Moon Rise LA

A time lapse of a full moon rising behind downtown Los Angeles.    Check out the video…  

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Enceladus to Scale

March 28, 2013

Enceladus to Scale

Saturn‘s moon Enceladus is only 505 kilometers (314 miles) across. It’s small enough to fit within the length of the United Kingdom. The intriguing icy moon also could fit comfortably within the states of Arizona or Colorado.

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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos recovers from the Atlantic the rockets of Apollo 11

March 21, 2013

Amazon's Jeff Bezos recovers from the Atlantic the rockets of Apollo 11

Apollo F-1 engines, that boosted U.S. astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic by Jeff Bezos and his company Bezos Expeditions.

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Fly me to the Moons

February 22, 2013

Fly me to the Moons

Fly Me to the Moons’ an amazing image of the Moon with Jupiter and three Galilean moons, along with a passing airplane.

No matter how much you plan and prepare, sometimes you just have to be very lucky,” said photographer Greg Gibbs.   Larger image.   via universetoday