IleJadi - From a Soyuz launch in Kazakhstan to a new image of a crescent Saturn, here are the most impressive space photos from the month of March.
A glow over North America represents fluorescence measured from land plants in early July, from 2007 to 2011, in this image released on March 31, 2014. Data from satellite sensors show that during the northern hemisphere's growing season the midwest region of the U.S. boasts more photosynthetic activity than any other spot on Earth. (NASA/Reuters)
Star trails are visible over the granite face of El Capitan in Earth's Yosemite National Park in this image taken on November 8, 2013 and in March 2014. El Capitan hides the north celestial pole, which is at the center of all the star trails. (Michael Bolte—NASA/Zuma Press)
This image released on March 7, 2014 and taken from the International Space Station (ISS) shows the Iberian Peninsula including Spain and Portugal at night. The lights from human settlements reveal where the major towns and activity are. The large mass of light in the middle is Madrid, Spain. (ESA/NASA/EPA)
This radar composite image, released in March 2014, shows changes in large-scale agricultural plots in southwest Iran. Combined, the different colors show changes in the fields – such as harvesting at different points on time during 2010. (JAXA/ESA)
This close-up of cosmic clouds and stellar winds features LL Orionis, interacting with the Orion Nebula flow. Adrift in Orion's stellar nursery and still in its formative years, variable star LL Orionis produces a wind more energetic than the wind from our own middle-aged Sun. (NASA/Sipa USA)
A sand dune field in a Southern highlands crater obtained March 13, 2014. The especially bright patches - bluish in enhanced color - are due to seasonal frost that is accumulating as this hemisphere approaches winter. (NASA/JPL-CalTech/Univ. of Arizona/AFP/Getty Images)
This image obtained March 11, 2014 shows a new color mosaic created from MESSENGER acquired during the space craft's second year in orbit about Mercury. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/AFP/Getty Images)
This photo shows the moon over northeast Greenland, where a team of scientists returned to the Arctic with NASA’s P-3 aircraft to continue Operation IceBridge, a multi-year aerial survey of polar ice In March 2014. (Michael Studinger—NASA Earth Observatory)
NASA released the largest high resolution mosaic of our moon's north polar region on March 19, 2014. Scientists created the mosaic using cameras aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
A beautiful new image of part of NGC 2174, also known as the Monkey Head Nebula, released by NASA on March 17, 2014 to celebrate Hubble's 24th year in orbit. NGC 2174 lies about 6400 light-years away in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). (NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team/EPA)
Multiple images of a distant quasar are visible in this combined view from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. For the first time scientists have measured the spin of a distant supermassive black hole and found that its rate of rotation is about 3.5 trillion mph - roughly half the speed of light. (NASA/Reuters)
The Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft is set on its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome on March 23, 2014. (Maxim Shemetov—Reuters)
Spiral galaxy ESO 137-00 zooms toward the upper left of this image released on March 4, 2014, in between other galaxies in the Norma cluster located over 200 million light-years away. Intergalactic gas in the Norma cluster is sparse, but so hot at 180 million degrees Fahrenheit that it glows in X-rays detected by Chandra (blue). (X-ray: NASA/CXC/UAH/M.Sun et al; Optical: NASA/ESA/The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))
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