In August 2015, a remarkable image was captured by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. It showed the moon moving in front of the sunlit side of Earth from a distance of 1 million miles. EPIC is a four-megapixel CCD camera and telescope that constantly views the fully illuminated Earth as it rotates, … [Read more...] about NASA’s DSCOVR Satellite Captures Unique View of Moon Crossing Earth’s Face
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This 4,000-year-old skull just received a new face
This article published BY NINA STROCHLIC in National Geographic Magazine Buried during the Stone Age, this woman once roamed the forests of northern Sweden. Now archaeologists have reconstructed her face. For 4,000 years, a woman lay undisturbed in a stone-lined grave amid the forests of northeastern Sweden. She had likely followed animal migrations through the … [Read more...] about This 4,000-year-old skull just received a new face