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Keck Observatory confirms planet described as ‘an older cousin to Earth’

Posted on 6:15 pm, Friday, July 24, 2015. Tags: earth, kepler, nasa, planet, w.m. keck observatory

The W. M. Keck Observatory has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the â€œhabitable zoneâ€ around a sun-like star.

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Wish you were here? Trick question, you are here.

Posted on 11:59 am, Thursday, August 7, 2014. Tags: earth, goes, hurricane iselle, hurricane julio, noaa

Full disk Earth image captured at 11 a.m. HST Thursday, August 7, 2014. You can clearly see Hurricane Iselle close to the Big Island while Hurricane Julio is flowing Iselle’s lead.

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The Big Blue Marble we call home

Posted on 4:00 am, Sunday, January 29, 2012. Tags: earth, nasa

This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. NASA renamed its newest Earth-observing satellite in honor of the late meteorologist Verner E. Suomi.

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First image from new GOES-14 satellite

Posted on 8:40 pm, Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Tags: earth, goes-14, nasa, noaa, nws, satellite

From approximately 35,786 km (22,236 miles) in space, NOAA’s newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite â€“ GOES-14 â€“ took its first full-disk visible image of the earth on July 27, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. EDT. GOES-14, launched on June 27, 2009, from Cape Canaveral, Fla., joins three other NOAA operational GOES spacecraft that help the agency’s […]

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