... Solar Surfin . ... The sun's corona is a tenuous outer atmosphere composed of streams of energetic charged particles, but it is only easily seen from Earth during a total solar eclipse. ... Charles P. Conrad Jr 1930 1999 . ... Moon, Planets, and Rocket Trails . ... Fifteen hundred light years away towards the constellation of Orion lies a nebula which, from its glow and dark dust lanes, appears like a billowing fire. ... A Delta Rocket Launches . ... Barringer Crater on Earth . ...