“We have your satellite if you want it back send 20 billion in Martian money. No funny business or you will never see it again.” ~ Seen on a hall wall at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs
It took me four tries to type in my password just because I kept tripping over the keys. Today is not the day to sit down for a writing session. Instead, enjoy the beautiful images that follow:
From My Modern Met
Not many people get to travel to outer space, but here, we can at least see what it looks like from amazing aerial perspectives. Landsat 5, a satellite that observed our planet for more than 29 years in space, will soon be ending it’s mission. Originally set to orbit Earth for three years, the satellite lived well beyond its intended means. But, a recently broken gyroscope has declared the end of the machine’s time in space.
It orbited Earth more than 150,000 times, capturing more than 2.5 million images of our world’s terrain. In honor of the mission’s end, here are a collection of Landsat 5’s best images of our planet. Landsat 7, which has been orbiting Earth since 1999, will remain overhead and Landsat 8 will be launched into space in February 2013.
- Okavango River, Botswana
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