Carl Kleiner. Episode 0069: Interview with Jack Hollingsworth about iPhone photography. NASA's Best Photos Of 2010: The Most Stunning Images Of The Year. Despite NASA's budget woes, 2010 was a year full of new discoveries and successful missions.
The Hubble telescope celebrated a 20-year milestone, the space shuttle program launched three of its final scheduled missions, astronauts aboard the International Space Station shared their experiences in real-time using unprecedented forms of Internet access, and more. Even in places where people can't go, NASA's cameras were clicking away. Thanks to the images NASA released this year, we learned of gorgeous land formations on Mars, got up close and personal with speeding asteroids, flew by moons orbiting our neighboring planets and examined alien galaxies in stunning detail. Check out our slideshow of the best NASA photos from 2010 and cast your vote for the most stunning ones. Seen any other NASA images from the past year that you feel should have been included?
Loading Slideshow Carina NebulaImage captured by Hubble Telescope. . + Add a slide Share your favorite NASA photo from the past year! Shanghai prepares for Expo 2010. Construction workers and organizers in Shanghai, China are busily completing tasks ahead of the planned opening of the 2010 World Expo on May 1st - planned to be the largest World Expo in history. The theme of the Expo is "Better City, Better Life", and is scheduled to run until October 31, 2010. In recent months, large construction and renovation projects have dominated much of Shanghai, in preparation for becoming the World's stage on May 1st. Up to 800,000 visitors are expected each day - a total of 70 million visitors in all visiting exhibitions from nearly 200 participants around the world.
Collected here are several recent photos from Shanghai as construction nears completion for the Expo 2010. ( 31 photos total ) In this photo taken Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010, a man labors in front of the Seed Cathedral, formed by thousands of slender acrylic rods - the centerpiece of the UK Pavilion, at the Shanghai World Expo site in Shanghai, China. Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog. Posted Jul 26, 2010 Share This Gallery inShare324 These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations.
The photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color. Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. Connecticut town on the sea. Farm auction. Children gathering potatoes on a large farm. Trucks outside of a starch factory. Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise). Children in the tenement district. Going to town on Saturday afternoon. Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains. Barker at the grounds at the state fair. Backstage at the "girlie" show at the state fair.
At the Vermont state fair. Couples at square dance. Orchestra at square dance. The International Space Station and Beyond. Jul 8th 2010 By Bonnie Biess No matter where you are in the world, sunsets have a special, colorful place in the experience of mankind. The reds, oranges and yellows make the horizon look like it's on fire, while the frequent occurrence of sunsets reassures us that the earth isn't being set ablaze daily.
This is why people love sunsets, why they make every evening a comforting cycle of panic and reassurance. Could anything be better? Yes, sucker, because now we've got EXTREME sunsets. Now sit back, relax and pretend you're Luke Skywalker gazing at some binary suns after a hard day of nerf-herding. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Bonus: Artist-Rendered Double Sunset Update: Thank you commenter Bill for pointing out that the North Pole photograph was proven to be fake.