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Eleanor Imster
Views of home
Intriguing and inspiring perspectives of our home planet from spacecraft cameras looking back at Earth.
March 7, 2018
Wildfires will likely get worse in western North America
A new study projects increases in burning across the U.S. West and Canada. It suggests large fires - such those we've seen recently in California - may become more common.
March 5, 2018
Almost-real-time map of global fishing
"Until now we didn’t really know where people were fishing in vast swaths of the ocean …"
March 2, 2018
5 minutes before sunrise
Photographer Steve Scanlon captured this beautiful color just 5 minutes before sunrise over the Shrewsbury River in Rumson, New Jersey.
March 1, 2018
Moon’s water might be widespread
A new study suggests that the moon’s water is widely distributed across its surface, though it’s not necessarily easily accessible.
February 28, 2018
How naked mole rats stay cancer-free
Another piece in the puzzle of how these wrinkled, hairless, buck-toothed creatures live such long and cancer-free lives.
February 28, 2018
The skywatcher
RV Photography said, "After a night of astrophotography, it's nice to just take a seat and enjoy the stars ..."
February 28, 2018
Watch an octopus get spiky
Octopuses and cuttlefish have an amazing defense tactic. They can erect 3D spikes from their skin, hold them for an hour, then retract them and swim away.
February 23, 2018
Mars rover finds possible rock stripes
The long-lived Opportunity Mars rover keeps finding surprises, including these possible stone stripes. On Earth, similar features result from repeated freezing and thawing of wet soil.
February 22, 2018
ISS over New York
Stan Honda caught this shot of the International Space Station from Central Park in New York City.
February 22, 2018
