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NASA Releases Top Photos of Earth in 2020


Thu 31 Dec 2020 | 03:55 PM
Ahmed Yasser

The US Space Agency "NASA" published Today, a video of best Earth images in 2020.

Titania

This image of Titania, taken by the Voyager 2 probe, shows the cratered surface of Uranus' moon. Researchers have developed a method that would allow future space missions to confirm the existence of subsurface oceans on celestial bodies like the moons of Uranus.

Great Conjunction

A view of the "great conjunction" of Jupiter and Saturn, on Monday (Dec. 21,) as seen from Burnsville, North Carolina. Jupiter's Galilean moons — Europa, Io, Ganymede and Callisto — also make a dazzling appearance.

Debut flight for Long March 8

China launched its new Long March 8 rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on Hainan Island on Monday (Dec. 21), successfully bringing five test satellites into orbit. China has disclosed plans to reuse Long March 8 boosters in the future.

Cyclones rotating on Jupiter

Jupiter's cloud tops appear in this animation, which was created using images captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft from altitudes of about 18,000 miles (28,567 kilometers) above the giant planet. Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt processed the images to enhance the color and contrast.

A far-off galaxy

You can see the galaxy NGC 1947, a lenticular galaxy or disc galaxy that's lost most of its interstellar matter. Lenticular galaxies, because of their lost matter, don't have a lot of star formation happening within them. This galaxy was discovered almost 200 years ago and rests in the constellation Dorado.