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Oresund Bridge
Oresund Bridge

In 1991, the governments of Denmark and Sweden agreed to build a bridge to connect the two countries across the…

Salt Ponds, Botswana
Salt Ponds, Botswana

This photograph shows the salt ponds of one of Africa's major producers of soda ash (sodium carbonate) and salt. Soda…

Spitzer’s Legacy
Spitzer’s Legacy

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured infrared images of the "Whirlpool Galaxy" (M51), revealing strange structures bridging the gaps between…

Spirit Studies Rock Outcrop at ‘Home Plate’
Spirit Studies Rock Outcrop at ‘Home Plate’

Mars Exploration Rover Spirit acquired this false-color image on the rover's on Martian day, or sol, 746 (Feb. 26, 2006)…

Mapping the World
Mapping the World

Malaspina Glacier in southeastern Alaska is considered the classic example of a piedmont glacier. Piedmont glaciers occur where valley glaciers…

Boosters at Sea
Boosters at Sea

Floating in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral are the right and left solid rocket boosters,…

Boomerang Nebula
Boomerang Nebula

The Hubble Space Telescope has "caught" the Boomerang Nebula in these new images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys.…

Crew Wraps Up Launch Practice
Crew Wraps Up Launch Practice

The launch team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the crew of STS-122 concluded a successful dress rehearsal for the…

Opportunity’s First Dip Into Victoria Crater
Opportunity’s First Dip Into Victoria Crater

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity entered Victoria Crater on the rover's 1,291st Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 11, 2007). The…

Skylab Spacewalker
Skylab Spacewalker

Skylab 3 astronaut Owen Garriott spacewalks near the Apollo Telescope Mount on the space station in 1973. He had just…