Earth II (Blue Marble) Moon " this spiral galaxy is

" this spiral galaxy is unlike the textbook images of stately galaxies

An image of Saturn's glorious rings in stunning black and white

The plumes fan out and fade from tan to green and blue with water depth and distance from the shore

The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on May 6

with more than two protons in the atom's nucleus - "metals

Earth II (Blue Marble) Moon " this spiral galaxy isNext Generation is a mosaic of satellite data taken mostly from a NASA sensor called the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) that flies board NASAs Terra and Aqua satellites. The 2002 Blue Marble featured land surfaces, clouds, topography, and city lights at a maximum resolution of 1 kilometer per pixel. (NASA image by Robert Simmon and Reto Stckli)