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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 weeks ago

Apollo 8's "Earthrise" Photo Just Became A LEGO Ideas Set, Nearly 60 Years Later - Yanko Design

It's nearly 60 years since we first got to actually see our blue marble from afar. Not in some geography book as a painting, not in the form of a VFX shot in a Hollywood movie. But as an actual color photo clicked by an astronaut from space. Taken by William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, this iconic photo set the earth against its nearest neighbor, the moon.
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fromNature
3 weeks ago

Fossilized technology: Books in brief

Modern human-made objects such as plastics, electronics, concrete and infrastructure are creating long-lasting technofossils that may persist for millions of years.
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fromArs Technica
1 month ago

25 years, one website: ISS in Real Time captures quarter-century on space station

A new portal consolidates 25 years of ISS photos, audio, videos, mission data, and articles into a searchable day-by-day timeline with extensive coverage.
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fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago

How NASA's Lunar Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth

Two astronauts conduct scientific work on a silent, cratered lunar surface while Apollo-era imagery and recent deaths have left only five living moonwalkers.
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fromColossal
3 months ago

An Area Known as 'Falbreen' on Mars Saw Some Bright Blue Skies-Kind Of

NASA's Perseverance Rover captures panoramic images of Mars to search for microbial life and assess human habitability.
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