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Amazing Radar Image from Space Highlights Costa Concordia Catastrophe

January 20, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter An amazing new radar image from space (above and below) shows the wreckage of the deadly Costa Concordia catastrophe just hours after the luxury cruise liner struck gigantic rocks jutting up from the shoreline of the Island of Giglio [Isola del [...]

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Deadly Costa Concordia Shipwreck Captured in Stunning Image from Space

January 19, 2012

The deadly Costa Concordia shipwreck has been captured in a stunning high resolution image from space that vividly shows the magnitude of the awful disaster with the huge luxury cruise ship precariously tipped on its side just off of the Tuscan coastline of the Italian Island of Giglio [Isola del Giglio]. See the full image [...]

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Mount Merapi Still Blowing off Steam

November 11, 2010

For about three weeks, Indonesia’s Mount Merapi has been belching out lava, as well as ash and gas, clouding the atmosphere above. This satellite image, taken by NASA’s MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite, shows the volcano now settling down and is the most cloud-free satellite view of the volcano that we’ve been able to [...]

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Hurricane Satellite Images

September 7, 2010

Here are some cool hurricane satellite images. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. This is a nice image of Hurricane Earl from space as seen by the Expedition 24 astronauts onboard the International Space [...]

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