Earth From Orbit

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  Space Station Captures Spectacular Night View Of India Illuminated By City Lights

  The illuminated network highlights major cities connected by highways, while smaller clusters reveal towns and villages shining across the country.

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  ISS Crew Prepares to Send Japan’s HTV-X1 Cargo Spacecraft Back to Earth After Four Months

  The Expedition 74 crew aboard the International Space Station is preparing to release Japan’s HTV-X1 cargo spacecraft after four months docked. Using Canadarm2, the vehicle will detach, conduct additional experiments in orbit, and later deorbit, while astronauts continue biology and AI research onboard.

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  Viral Claims Link Lunar Eclipse To Conflict - Here's What Science Says

  According to NASA, solar and lunar eclipses can be calculated centuries in advance using precise celestial mechanics. There is no known physical mechanism by which these alignments could influence political decisions or military conflict.

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  NASA’s Carruthers Observatory Begins Mission to Study Earth’s Hydrogen Halo

  NASA’s Carruthers Observatory has begun its two-year science mission to study Earth’s hydrogen-rich exosphere from a halo orbit at Sun–Earth L1. Equipped with ultraviolet cameras, the small satellite will continuously image the faint geocorona, tracking how solar storms and fast solar wind streams cause the upper atmosphere to expand, contrac...

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  NASA Shares Photo Of Dazzling Green Auroras Captured From Space Station

  According to NASA, auroras are produced when charged particles from the Sun collide with Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere.

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  India Gains In-Orbit Spying Capability, Can Now Snoop On Enemy Satellites

  In a significant milestone for India's growing private space sector, Ahmedabad-based Azista Industries Private Limited through its aerospace vertical has demonstrated a new indigenous capability to image objects in orbit from another satellite

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  Scientists Discover 'Potentially Habitable' Earth-Like Planet Candidate

  If confirmed, this exoplanet would be the only known rocky world in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.

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  Sunita Williams Reveals Two Strangest Things She Saw In Space

  Sunita Williams, retired astronaut, reveals surprising sights from space, including numerous satellites and rare lightning energy captured from the ISS.

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  SpaceX Adds 29 More Starlink Satellites in Rapid Falcon 9 Launch From Florida

  SpaceX Falcon Rocket has launched 29 satellites into the Low Earth orbit, in turn, raising the number of its active satellites to 9,500. With this, the rocket marked its 24th safest flight.

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  Scientists Discover "Iron Bar" In Space That May Reveal Earth's Future

  The team said they plan to do further studies to find out what exactly this iron bar is, where it came from and what it indicates