The Starry Night of Alamut
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This is Pingualuit Crater in northern Quebec, on Earth. It was first seen by a crew from a United States Army Air Force plane in 1943, and was one of the first craters in this region to be identified as an impact crater. This image was taken by NASA's Landsat 7 satellite on August 17, 2002. In this image, water appears blue, and land appears in varying shades of beige. The high latitude of the area limits vegetation, so thick, lush forests do not flourish in this region. In fact, the crater's name derives from an Inuktitut term for cold-weather-induced skin blemishes.
A complex circular formation of twelve segments, with eight concentric lines of differing length and number in each segment. It is a close approximation of Leonhard Euler's profound and beautiful equation - e^(hi)pi)1=0
Credit: JAXA.
The Earth appears as a bright orange crescent in this infrared view taken by Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft on May 21, 2010 as it headed to Venus shortly after launch.
A sliver of the crescent Earth shines in bright blue in this ultraviolet view of the planet taken May 21, 2010 by Japan's Akatsuki probe headed for Venus.