SPOTLIGHT"This Land" by Stephen Nowlin
Top image: EARTH. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona (image detail). Courtesy National Park Service.
Bottom image: MARS. Rocknest, Point Lake Area (image detail). Courtesy Curiosity Rover, NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
Top image: EARTH. Mountain range northwest of Kathmandu, Nepal. NASA images by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response.
Bottom image: MARS. Jumbled Terrain in Ius Chasma, Mars. Courtesy of NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. Earth (left): Slopes of Kilimanjaro Volcano, Tanzania, Africa (detail), 2016. Image source: Google Earth; DigitalGlobe; CNES/Atrium. Latitude: 3° 6'2.62"S; Longitude: 37°22'33.22"E; eye alt 18,407ft.
Mars (right): Very Bright and Sun-Facing Gully Deposits in Hale Crater (detail), 2009. HIRISE Camera, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image source: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. Earth (left): North Col of Mount Everest, Tibet. Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center.
Mars (right): Gale Crater Layers in a Northeast Section of Mound. HIRISE Camera, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image source: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. Left image: Earth, Anza-Borrego Desert, 2017 (detail). This image of the Anza-Borrego Desert in California, USA, was captured from space on June 30, 2017. Anza-Borrego Desert lies in a unique geologic setting along the western margin of the Salton Trough, a major topographic depression with the Salton Sink having elevations of 200 ft (61 m) beneath the level of Earth’s water oceans. Credit: Google Earth/Digital Globe.
Middle image: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 2014 (detail). An image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft navigation camera on August 7, 2014. 67P is a Jupiter-family comet, originally from the outer solar system’s Kuiper belt, with a current orbital period around the sun of 6.45 years. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/ DASP/IDA. Right image: MARS, 2017 (detail). An image of gullies in a crater within Newton Crater was taken on by the HiRise Camera aboard the NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, February 26, 2017. Newton is a large crater with a diameter close to 300 km. It is located south of the planet's equator in the heavily cratered highlands of Terra Sirenum in the Phaethontis quadrangle. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Top image: EARTH, 2015 (detail). Data from Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, was transmitted to Earth on August 15, 2015, by a Digital Globe Earth orbiting satellite. Between six and nine million years ago, stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust caused movement along the Teton fault. The west block along the fault line rose to form the Teton Range, creating the youngest mountain range in the Rocky Mountains. Data: Google Earth/Digital Globe.
Middle image: MARS, 2017 (detail). Gullies in a Crater within Newton Crater, 2017. Data from Newton Crater was transmitted to Earth by the HiRise Camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, February 26, 2017. Newton is a large crater with a diameter close to 300 km. It is located south of the planet's equator in the heavily cratered highlands of Terra Sirenum in the Phaethontis quadrangle. At their closest approach, the landscapes of Mars and Earth are 33.9 million miles apart. Data: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. Bottom image: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 2014 (detail). Data from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was transmitted to Earth by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft navigation camera on August 7, 2014. 67P is a Jupiter-family comet, originally from the Kuiper belt, with a current orbital period around the sun of 6.45 years. At the time this data was transmitted, the landscapes of Comet 67P and Earth were over 251 million miles apart. Data: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/ DASP/IDA. Left image: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 2014 (detail). An image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft navigation camera on August 7, 2014. 67P is a Jupiter-family comet, originally from the Kuiper belt, with a current orbital period around the sun of 6.45 years. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/ DASP/IDA.
Middle image: MARS, 2017 (detail). Gullies in a Crater within Newton Crater, 2017. An image of Newton Crater was taken on by the HiRise Camera aboard the NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, February 26, 2017. Newton is a large crater with a diameter close to 300 km. It is located south of the planet's equator in the heavily cratered highlands of Terra Sirenum in the Phaethontis quadrangle. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Right image: EARTH, 2015 (detail). An image of Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, was taken on August 15, 2015, from a Digital Globe Earth imaging satellite. Between six and nine million years ago, stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust caused movement along the Teton fault. The west block along the fault line rose to form the Teton Range, creating the youngest mountain range in the Rocky Mountains. Credit: Google Earth/Digital Globe.
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