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Blog: Journey to Galapagos

Following in Darwin’s footsteps, Gene Feldman explores the remarkable Galapagos Islands.

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1. Planetary Motion: The History of an Idea That Launched the Scientific Revolution

   Attempts of Renaissance astronomers to explain the puzzling path of planets across the night sky led to modern science’s understanding of gravity and motion.

2. World of Change: Burn Recovery in Yellowstone

   In 1988, wildfires raced through Yellowstone National Park, consuming hundreds of thousands of acres. This series of Landsat images tracks the landscape’s slow recovery through 2008.

3. World of Change: Global Biosphere

   Earth would not be the planet that it is without its biosphere, the sum of its life. This series of images illustrates the variations in the average productivity of the global biosphere from 1999 to 2008.

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2. August 3 NASA's CloudSat Captures a Sideways Look at Fading Lana
3. August 3 NASA's Moon Mapper Beholds Home

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