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10 Years of Aqua Satellite’s Incredible Images of Earth From Space
NASA’s Aqua satellite has been producing amazing images of Earth for 10 years, collecting 29 million gigabytes of data and far outliving its life expectancy of three to five years. Here are some of Aqua’s most spectacular images, including shots of erupting volcanoes, plankton blooms and forest fires.
Up for Bids: Classic Soviet Space Propaganda Posters
Science and communism are inseparable! That is the basic message of this amazing collection of Soviet space propaganda posters that will be auctioned off on April 22. The posters have messages such as “Comrades! Soviet Land Has From Now On Become the Shore of the Universe!” or “The Tenth Planet Symbolizes the Victory of Communism!” and “Be Proud, Soviet, You Opened a Path from the Earth to the Stars!” One of our favorites is “Lenin Is With Us, Immortal and Majestic, the Thoughts, Words and Deeds of Ilyich Are Propagating Through the Universe.”
Exclusive Video: Huge Musk Oxen Clash in Frozen Planet
Four years of filming near the Earth’s poles have yielded some amazing footage in the new series Frozen Planet. Brought to you by the same crew that created the incredible Planet Earth series, this new epic includes unparalleled views of the Arctic and Antarctic landscapes as well as beautiful, enlightening and even suspenseful looks at polar wildlife.
Chicks and Eggs: Best Live Nest Cams for Easter
We’ve collected some of the best live streaming nest cams we could find. They all have eggs or chicks in the nest, or are about to have eggs. Turns out there are a lot of nest cams out there, from owls to falcons to emus.
Rare, Beautiful and Disturbing Objects From the National Library of Medicine
Buried in the National Library of Medicine’s collection of more than 17 million items are some pretty amazing, largely unseen objects from around the world. The mesmerizing new book Hidden Treasure is filled with images of these objects that are beautiful, enlightening or disturbing, and sometimes all three. The highlights include Hitler’s medical records, detailed graphic depictions of early-20th-century surgical techniques, a Russian book of clinical dermatology from 1887, and a report from the first medical responders to enter Hiroshima after the bomb. This gallery contains some of our favorite items from the book.