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June 21, 2008
Saturday Science: Great photos of Earth, Mars, & beyond
Boston.com's new feature The Big Picture dispenses with traditional peanut-sized Web photos and showcases great images in the news. Site designer/developer/writer/photo editor Alan Taylor talks about his brainchild and how it came to be. [Via] Lately they've been harvesting the best photos that billions of tax dollars can buy:
- The Sky, From Above features gorgeous shots of the Space Shuttle at liftoff, as well as of thunderstorms over the American Midwest and more. [Via]
- In Martian Skies, you can view panoramas from Mars and watch dust devils skittering across the Martian landscape.
- The site also features a retrospective of some of the great images sent back home by the Cassini space probe over the past four years. [Via]
On related notes, apparently the Mars Phoenix rover is broadcasting via Twitter. Also, NASA's new space suit design looks rather trim & buff. I kind of miss the human Jiffy Pop bag look, though.
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Do you know of a site that shows the earth from different aspects of space. I lost the website and wanted to forward it to a friend. Thanks.