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Keywords: Earth, plate tectonics
![Спутники Земли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/09/0001198945/moonmir_sts91_big.preview.jpg)
13.08.1998
While orbiting the planet during their June 1998 mission, the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery photographed this view of two moons of Earth. Thick storm clouds are visible in the lovely blue planet...
![Тень Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192779/moonshad_goes_big.preview.gif)
12.03.1998
When the Moon's shadow reached out and touched the Earth last month, the result was a Solar Eclipse. Such an eclipse is total only for observers located along a narrow path corresponding to the ground track of the shadow's dark central portion or "umbra".
![Земля из голубого мрамора](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/04/28/0001189737/bluemarble2k.preview.jpg)
26.04.2003
This reconstructed digital portrait of our planet is reminiscent of the Apollo-era pictures of the "big blue marble" Earth from space. To create it, researchers at Goddard Space Flight Center's Laboratory for Atmospheres...
![Аризонский кратер](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/15/0001217833/azcrater_lpi_big.preview.jpg)
11.07.1999
What happens when a meteor hits the ground? Usually nothing much, as most meteors are small, and indentations they make are soon eroded away. 49,000 years ago, however, a large meteor created Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, pictured above. Barringer is over a kilometer across.
![Послание с Земли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192286/etmessage_nrao.preview.gif)
17.07.1997
What are these Earthlings trying to tell us? The above message was broadcast from Earth towards the globular star cluster M13 in 1974. During the dedication of the Arecibo Observatory - still the largest radio telescope in the world - a string of 1's and 0's representing the above diagram was sent.
![Пояс Венеры над Лунным Ущельем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/07/24/0001214927/beltofvenus_churchill.preview.jpg)
23.07.2006
Although you've surely seen it, you might not have noticed it. During a cloudless twilight, just before sunrise or after sunset, part of the atmosphere above the horizon appears slightly off-color, slightly pink.
![Земля или Марс?](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/04/12/0001205161/earthmars_alves.preview.jpg)
12.04.2005
Which image is Earth, and which is Mars? One of the above images was taken by the robot Spirit rover currently climbing Husband Hill on Mars. The other image was taken by a human across the desert south of Morocco on Earth. Both images show vast plains covered with rocks and sand.
![Перигелий и афелий](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/07/04/0001235407/PerihelionAphelion_cervignon800.preview.jpg)
3.07.2009
This year Aphelion, the point in Earth's elliptical orbit when it is farthest from the Sun, occurs tomorrow, July 4th. Of course, that doesn't affect the seasons on our fair planet. Those...
![Температура на поверхности Земли за последние 130 лет](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/07/31/0001291385/temperature130.preview.png)
31.07.2013
How has the surface temperature of Earth been changing? To help find out, Earth scientists collected temperature records from over 1000 weather stations around the globe since 1880, and combined them with modern satellite data.
![Северный магнитный полюс Земли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/19/0001178888/northcanada_noaa.preview.jpg)
18.08.2002
A magnetic compass does not point toward the true North Pole of the Earth. Rather, it more closely points toward the North Magnetic Pole of the Earth. The North Magnetic Pole is currently located in northern Canada.
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