Posts Tagged ‘Nasa’

Picture of Britain under snow from Nasa

Friday, January 8th, 2010

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Thanks to @Jangles for pointing out this great pic of the recent snowfall in the UK from Nasa.

Snow blanketed Great Britain on January 7, 2010, as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite passed overhead and captured this image. Snow covers most of England, from the east to the west coast.  The cities of Manchester, Birmingham, and London form ghostly gray shapes against the white land surface. Immediately east of London, clouds swirl over the island, casting blue-gray shadows toward the north.

The image is from the Earth Observatory site, here:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=42237

Pictures from Mars

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

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From a fantastic set of pictures from Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on the Boston Globe’s Big Picture site.  The MRO has been orbiting Mars for a few years now sending back hi-res images of the planets surface.  The images are a real mixture of familiar looking landscapes and alien details like the swirls in the image above.