Man made Landscapes From Space (26 pics)

Using Google Earth you can see windy roads, curving housing tracts and all kinds of human created patterns. All it takes is a different perspective to realize that art is always around us.

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The Viewpoint from Space (22 pics)

This is what the landscape of earth looks like from space. It is nothing short of awesome. Take a look and see if you don’t agree.Rio Paraná, Argentina

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The Other Space Race

Active Space Programs in Iran, Brazil, India, Japan, China, Israel... is it going to get crowded even without USA or Russia? Back in the early sixties, John F. Kennedy declared America's intention of putting a man on the Moon, a dream that was fulfilled with the Apollo 11 lunar landing in July 1969. The space race featured the USSR and the USA, vying to be the first each time mankind took another step forward in the exploration of space, following the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957. These days, lots of countries have active space programs and here at Dark Roasted Blend, we take a look at the other space race. (image credit: NASA) The European Space Agency or ESA was founded in 1975 and currently has eighteen member countries. ESA employs over 2,000 people and has an annual budget of over $5 billion US, dedicated to space exploration. ESA launches take place from the spaceport located close to the equator near Kourou in French Guiana in northern South America:

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The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond

NASA Solves the Mystery of the "Guest Star" of 185 A.D. A mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an exploding star in the sky, has been solved. New infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer,...

Vast Nebular Clouds of Organics --Support Biological View of the Universe This worldview of the cosmos as a biological universe is a revolutionary perspective as profound a revision in our way of thinking as the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions. It is a worldview that believes that "planetary systems are common, that...

Supernovas Illuminate the Mystery of Dark Energy (Or Do They?) Supernovas have helped astronomers to discover one of the greatest mysteries of science, acting like a time machine to help us understand why the universe is spreading out at an accelerating rate, according to Kirshner. "We do not understand what...

Ancient Galaxy Signals End of Dark Ages of Universe In 2007, a renowned international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the universe. Located an estimated 13 billion light-years away, the object is being viewed at a...

Image of the Day: The Eerie Beauty of "The Black Widow" Pulsar The pulsar, a.k.a. the "Black Widow," is moving through the galaxy at a speed of almost a million kilometers per hour. A bow shock wave due to this motion is visible to optical telescopes, shown in this image as the...

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