Category: From Our Perspective on Earth
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Earth Missions
Climate change impacts all aspects of life here on Earth, as all environments are interconnected. Scientists use orbiting satellites to study changes in Earth’s environments on a global scale and try to determine the trends due to climate change. The three missions I’m highlighting all look at the impacts of climate change in different areas:…
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Seeing The Visible and The Invisible
How are we able to get photos of worlds beyond our own? Stunning pictures of Jupiter, the Sun, and even a photograph of a black hole? There are different methods depending on what you want to see, but it always comes back to understanding two things: photons and electrons.
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Astrobiology
Astrobiology is a nascent, interdisciplinary field concerned with the origins, evolution and distribution of life in the universe.
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Our Place in the Universe
Astronomers have different ways to measure distances depending on how far away the object is.