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  • The Space We Live In

    • 14 Apr 2012
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    Matthias Müller's latest project, The Space We Live In. The video depicts clustered objects in space, be they galaxies or clouds of miscellaneous debris. 
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  • Waste in Space

    • 28 Dec 2011
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    • 27December11 Infographic Space Waste
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    "Currently, a thick band of levitating space junk—composed primarily of broken satellite pieces and discarded rocket boosters—skirts the Earth. Two or three times a day, a satellite circling our planet narrowly misses a torrent of the orbital debris. This phenomenon has jeopardized not only current space travelers, but future missions as well."
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  • The Lost Dream ?

    • 26 Jul 2011
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    • 25July11 Colonies Dreams Future Space
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    "We have put men on the Moon. Can people live in space? Can permanent communities be built and inhabited off the Earth? Not long ago these questions would have been dismissed as science fiction, as fantasy or, at best as the wishful thinking of men ahead of their times," a 1975 NASA design study begins. "Now they are asked seriously not only out of human curiosity, but also because circumstances of the times stimulate the thought that space colonization offers large potential benefits and hopes to an increasingly enclosed and circumscribed humanity."  
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  • The Space Elevator : A Ribbon from Earth to Space...and Back !

    • 25 Jun 2011
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    • 24June11 Elevator Future Space Technology
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    Spaceelevator

     Space Elevator ©2003 Kenn Brown

    "Climbers ascend a ribbon, 100,000 km long, strung between an anchor on Earth and a counterweight in space. Connecting Earth and space in a way never before possible, the space elevator will enable us to inexpensively and completely expand our society into space. 

    Beyond Earth, space elevators on the moon and Mars open new economic opportunities and expand humanity's reach ever so slightly into the solar system."   The Space Elevator Reference  

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  • Russia's Orbital Roomba

    • 30 Nov 2010
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    • 11.30.10 Enviroment Space Technology
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    Russia is looking to build a $2 billion orbital “pod” that would sweep up satellite debris from space around the Earth.
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  • Russia's Chaunskaya Bay

    • 25 Nov 2010
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    • 11.25.10 Earth Space
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    Vivid colours and bizarre shapes come together in an image that could be an imaginative illustration for a fantasy story. This labyrinth of exotic features is present along the edge of Russia's Chaunskaya Bay (vivid blue half circle) in northeastern Siberia. Two major rivers, the Chaun and Palyavaam, flow into the bay, which in turn opens into the Arctic Ocean. Ribbon lakes and bogs are present throughout the area, created by depressions left by receding glaciers.
    Picture: USGS/NASA/Landsat / Rex Features
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  • Van Gogh From Space

    • 24 Nov 2010
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    • 11.24.10 Earth Space photography
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    Aptly named “Van Gogh from Space,” this picture was taken by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from a satellite. Rebecca Roth, of NASA Gobbard, describes the picture by saying:

    "In the style of Van Gogh’s painting “Starry Night,” massive congregations of greenish phytoplankton swirl in the dark water around Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea. Phytoplankton are microscopic marine plants that form the first link in nearly all ocean food chains. Population explosions, or blooms, of phytoplankton, like the one shown here, occur when deep currents bring nutrients up to sunlit surface waters, fueling the growth and reproduction of these tiny plants"

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  • Nighttime Lights of the World

    • 11 Nov 2010
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    • 11.11.10 Earth Night Space photography
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