The many faces of Earth – video
From their vantage points, Earth-observing satellites ‘see’ our planet in more ways than one. Happy Earth Day.
Morning Sun glint Over the Pacific
This breathtaking Earth composite image from the International Space Station captures morning sun glint and low clouds over the central Pacific Ocean.
This is the 11th straight month, the globe was record warm
As Earth continues to warm and is influenced by phenomena such as El Niño, global temperature records are piling up and March set another heat global record.
By reading this headline, you just traveled thousands of miles through space
We’re all actually traveling thru space, all the time. Earth is a rotating planet, that orbits our sun, that moves around the Milky Way, that travels through
Beyond the Sea map collection
Take a look at colorful “Beyond the Sea” map collection, a handy guides to countries of equivalent latitude across the oceans.
Leap Days by Julius Caesar
Today, February 29th, is a leap day, a calendar system that started in 46 BC by Julius Caesar, adding one leap day every four years.
Moon was created by a collision between Earth and a forming planet
A head-on violent collision between the early Earth and a “planetary embryo” called Theia, formed the Moon approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed.
Watching Earth from day to night from Space
Watch Earth from day to night, from Japan’s Himawari-8 satellite, that every day captures imagery of the western Pacific, Australia, and parts of Asia, Antarctica & Alaska…
Why Earth is Not Flat, explained
An introductory guide to the Flat Earth movement (!), starting with the Copernicus theory in 1514, false confirmation in 1957…
2015- the Hottest Year on Record
Officially announced that 2015 was the warmest year ever recorded on Earth, and it was not even close!