Earth Introduction. Earth Introduction. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity. Edgar Mitchell, USA. From the perspective we get on Earth. From space, astronauts often get the. The Day and Night World Map shows the Suns current position and where it is night and day throughout the world at that point of time. NearEarth Asteroids Famous Space Rock Flybys and Close Calls Infographic. Night On Earth' title='Night On Earth' />Official site for the worlds foremost sled race, the Iditarod Great Sled Race, with regular updates during the race, musher biographies, and educational links. Music Player for Google Drive is a simple and lightweight online music player for your audio files stored in Google Drive. It lets you open music files directly from. Uses Google Maps interface and NASA imagery to show how the Earth is seen at night from space. Earth is small with a thin, fragile. For a space traveler, the distinguishing Earth features. Many dream of traveling in space and viewing the wonders of the universe. In reality all of us are space. Our spaceship is the planet Earth, traveling. Earth is the 3rd planet from the Sun at a distance of about 1. It takes 3. 65. 2. Earth to travel around the Sun and. Earth rotate a complete revolution. It has a. diameter of 1. Venus. Our atmosphere is composed of 7. Earth is the only planet in the solar system known to harbor life. Our planets rapid spin and molten nickel iron core give rise to. Sun and other stars. Earths atmosphere protects us from. From our journeys into space, we have learned much about our. The first American satellite, Explorer 1. Van Allen. radiation belts. This layer is formed from rapidly moving. Earths magnetic field in a. Other findings from satellites. We also now know that. Affected by changes in solar activity, the upper atmosphere. Earth. Besides affecting Earths weather, solar activity gives rise. When charged. particles from the solar wind become trapped in Earths magnetic. These air molecules then begin to glow and are known as the. Earth Statistics. Mass kg5. 9. 76e2. Mass Earth 11. Equatorial radius km6,3. Equatorial radius Earth 11. Mean density gmcm35. Mean distance from the Sun km1. Mean distance from the Sun Earth 11. Rotational period days0. Rotational period hours2. Orbital period days3. Mean orbital velocity kmsec2. Sony Ericsson Pc Companion For Windows Xp. Orbital eccentricity. Tilt of axis degrees2. Artikel Pendidikan Kimia Pdf'>Artikel Pendidikan Kimia Pdf. Orbital inclination degrees0. Equatorial escape velocity kmsec1. Equatorial surface gravity msec29. Visual geometric albedo. Mean surface temperature. CAtmospheric pressure bars1. Atmospheric composition. Nitrogen. Oxygen. Other. 772. 12Animations of Earth. Views of Earth. The following set of images show some of the wonders of our planet. Blue Marble West. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed. Earth to date. Using a. Courtesy NASAMODISUSGSBlue Marble East. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed. Earth to date. Using a. Courtesy NASAMODISUSGSEarth Lights of North and South America. This image of North and South America city lights was created with data. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program DMSP Operational. Linescan System OLS. Originally designed to view clouds by moonlight. OLS is also used to map the locations of permanent lights on the. Earths surface. The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not. Cities tend to grow along coastlines. Even without the underlying map. The United. States interstate highway system appears as a lattice connecting the. Copyright Calvin J. HamiltonAfrica. The crew of Apollo 1. Earth in December 1. Earth and the Moon. The orange red. deserts of Africa and Saudi Arabia stand in stark contrast to the deep blue. Antarctica. Courtesy NASAMariner 1. View of the Earth Moon. The Earth and Moon were imaged by Mariner 1. Earth Moon. encounter by a spacecraft capable of returning high resolution digital. These images have been combined below to illustrate. From this particular viewpoint. Earth appears to be a water planetCourtesy NASAJPLNorthwestern UniversityThe Earth Moon. During its flight, the Galileo spacecraft returned. Earth and Moon. Separate images of the Earth and Moon were. The Galileo spacecraft took the images in. Jupiter system in 1. The image shows. a partial view of the Earth centered on the Pacific Ocean about latitude. The west coast of South America can be observed as well. Caribbean swirling white cloud patterns indicate storms in the. Pacific. The distinct bright ray crater at the bottom of the. Moon is the Tycho impact basin. The lunar dark areas are lava rock filled. This picture contains same scale and relative coloralbedo. Earth and Moon. Courtesy USGSNASANortheast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. This image of northeast Africa and the Arabian. Peninsula was taken from an altitude of about 5. Galileo spacecraft on December 9, 1. Earth en. route to Jupiter. Visible are most of Egypt left of center, including. Nile Valley the Red Sea slightly above center Israel Jordan, and. Arabian Peninsula. In the center, below the coastal cloud, is. Khartoum, at the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile. Somalia. lower right is partly covered by clouds. Courtesy NASAJPLHorn of Africa, Somalia. The orange and tan colors of this high oblique photograph of. Horn of Africa indicate an arid to semiarid landscape in. African country of Somalia. Except in the darker areas where thicker vegetation can be. Somalia is shrub brush and grasslands. The general climate of this. Two distinct drainage basins are characterized. Nugaaleed Valley along the western. Hafun Peninsula, the tombolo along the east. Somalia. The southern extent of the Saudi Arabian. Peninsula is visible north across the Gulf of Aden. Courtesy NASASouthern Tip of Greenland. The southern tip of Greenland is seen in this high oblique, almost. The. blackness of space contrasts sharply with the whiteness of clouds. The only true color is the blue of the Atlantic. Ocean and the Labrador Sea. Cloud free conditions existing along. A close look at the white areas reveals three. East Greenland. Current to the south southwest, and larger ice packs developing. Greenland has the only surviving. Northern Hemisphere. This ice sheet. covers seven eighths of Greenlands surface and contains an. Courtesy NASAAntarctica. This image of Antarctica was taken by Galileo several hours. Earth. on December 8, 1. This is the first picture of the whole Antarctic. Galileo was about 2. Earth when the pictures were taken. The icy continent is surrounded by the dark blue of three. Pacific to the left, the Indian to the bottom, and a piece of the. Atlantic to the upper right. Nearly the entire continent was sunlit at. The. arc of dark spots extending from near the South Pole close to the center. Transantarctic Mountain Range. To the. left of the mountains is the vast Ross Ice Shelf and the shelfs sharp. Ross Sea. The thin blue line along the. Courtesy NASAJPLClementine Mission. This false colored image was acquired during the Clementine mission. It shows airglow of the upper atmosphere as a thin blue line. The. bright spot toward the bottom is an urban area. Courtesy Naval Research LaboratoryMap projected image of Earth AVHRRThis image is a Homolosine projection of the Earth prepared from. Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer AVHRR image data. Courtesy ESANASANOAAUSGSCSIROUSAThis image is a mosaic of the United States prepared by using 1. Times New Roman Ps Italic Mt Font'>Times New Roman Ps Italic Mt Font. Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer AVHRR sensors. NOAA 8 and NOAA 9. The images were. acquired between May 2. May 1. 4, 1. 98. 6. On false color infrared mosaics, vegetation appears in various tones. The redness indicates vegetation density. Grasslands. appear light red, deciduous trees and croplands appear red, and. Desert areas appear white. Lakes. rivers and oceans appear in various shades of blue, dark blue for deep. Exposed bedrock. generally appears as a dark bluish green or other dark tone.