You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes, Chris Hadfield's Photos of Earth from Space

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As commander of the International Space Station, Chris Hadfield captivated the world with beautiful photos and commentary from space.

In a new book, You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes,Hadfield chooses the best from the thousands of photos he took on the International Space Station.

The Richat Structure in Mauritania, also known as the Eye of the Sahara, is a landmark for astronauts. If you've been busy doing experiments and haven't looked out the window for a while, it's hard to know where you are, especially if you're over a vast 3,600,000-square-mile desert. This bull's-eye orients you, instantly. Oddly, it appears not to be the scar of a meteorite but a deeply eroded dome, with a rainbow-inspired colour scheme(Chris Hadfield)

Salt from evaporation ponds in Great Salt Lake, Utah, is used to produce a lot of the world's magnesium metal. The largest saline lake in the western hemisphere attracts pastel-coloured algae, brine shrimp and the birds that love them, but so far, just this one lone wolf(Chris Hadfield)

On a clear day you can see forever (or at least from Havana to Washington, DC)(Chris Hadfield)

The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river's delta, with Jerusalem's answering high beams to the northeast. This 4,258 mile braid of human life, first navigated end-to-end in 2004, is visible in a single glance from space(Chris Hadfield)

A twist of cloud near Arica, Chile. You see these frequently in this part of the world because the Pacific is cold, the land is warm, and the currents and winds combine to form a cloudy vortex clockwise here, because it's the southern hemisphere. North of the equator, the spiral would turn counter-clockwise(Chris Hadfield)

Manhattan awake, 9:23am local time...(Chris Hadfield)

...Manhattan at rest, 3:45am local time(Chris Hadfield)

Venice, floating in its lagoon(Chris Hadfield)

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Mysterious space mission ends

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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Whatever it was doing up in space, we may never know, but the U.S. Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane returned to Earth this week, with still no details from the military on the nearly two-year mission.

"The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 3 (OTV-3)," as the military calls it, touched down at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Friday morning after conducting experiments in orbit for 674 days, the military said.

Conspiracy theorists endlessly conjecture on what the Pentagon is doing with "the newest and most advanced re-entry spacecraft." The Air Force's two vehicles resemble small space shuttles, and have now logged a combined 1,367 days in space, the military said.

In the latest mission, the X-37B lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on December 11, 2012. At the time, the Air Force said its mission would last about nine months.

The military has spoken only in generalities about the spacecraft and its mission.

Air Force X-37B space plane

Air Force X-37B space plane

Air Force X-37B space plane

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Jojie Lloren shows all colors at the Red Charity Gala

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This year's Red Charity Gala featured the work of Jojie Lloren.

Gala co-chair Tessa Prieto-Valdes fluttered soundlessly across the room, her salmon-colored cut-out platforms soft against the carpet (though her presence was loud and unmistakeable as ever), as she welcomed all her guestsloyal patrons, friends and supporters of a worthy cause.

I want you all to get smashed so that youll become more generous, she quipped.

A lavish affair, an exquisite cause

Now on its sixth year, the Red Charity Gala has become a staple in social events.

The suit gown makes a frequent appearance. From L-R: pieces by Vania Romoff, Malou Leonio, Lulu Tan Gan

With numerous sponsors and patrons and Manilas wealthiest on the guest list, it is an extravagant operation, and one that does not go without preparation.

Champagne and Cointreau-politans kept the room buzzing with lively chatter before the main event. Leading to the ballroom was a wall of fresh pink roses with tags that read Every rose is a thousand pesos more from Downy to Red Cross. A photo booth and separate photo mural ensured that guests had their share of captured memories.

Sabi ko Red Cross so Ill wear red! exclaimed one guest as she explained her outfit of choice for the evening. Amidst the numerous red dresses and glittering ensembles, the sleeved suit gown made a notable appearance. Donned by several including Lucy Torres-Gomez, this simple style turned many heads with its feminine take on a very masculine fashion.

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Jojie Lloren shows all colors at the Red Charity Gala

Jojie Lloren shows all colors at the Red Charity Gala 2014

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This year's Red Charity Gala featured the work of Jojie Lloren.

Gala co-chair Tessa Prieto-Valdes fluttered soundlessly across the room, her salmon-colored cut-out platforms soft against the carpet (though her presence was loud and unmistakeable as ever), as she welcomed all her guestsloyal patrons, friends and supporters of a worthy cause.

I want you all to get smashed so that youll become more generous, she quipped.

A lavish affair, an exquisite cause

Now on its sixth year, the Red Charity Gala has become a staple in social events.

The suit gown makes a frequent appearance. From L-R: pieces by Vania Romoff, Malou Leonio, Lulu Tan Gan

With numerous sponsors and patrons and Manilas wealthiest on the guest list, it is an extravagant operation, and one that does not go without preparation.

Champagne and Cointreau-politans kept the room buzzing with lively chatter before the main event. Leading to the ballroom was a wall of fresh pink roses with tags that read Every rose is a thousand pesos more from Downy to Red Cross. A photo booth and separate photo mural ensured that guests had their share of captured memories.

Sabi ko Red Cross so Ill wear red! exclaimed one guest as she explained her outfit of choice for the evening. Amidst the numerous red dresses and glittering ensembles, the sleeved suit gown made a notable appearance. Donned by several including Lucy Torres-Gomez, this simple style turned many heads with its feminine take on a very masculine fashion.

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Comet’s Mars Buzz – NASA Scientist’s ‘Need To Know’ | Exclusive Video – Video

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NASA spacecraft around Mars send back images of comet Siding Spring

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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has released the first resolved images of comet Siding Spring's nucleus -- and it's a lot smaller than people expected.

The nucleus of the comet that zoomed past the Red Planet on Sunday appears to be about half its predicted size of about half a mile. This surprising find could be one of many to come as scientists pore over the data sent back by the NASA orbiters and rovers that teamed up to study the mysterious visitor from the solar systems distant Oort cloud.

All three orbiters -- the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Odyssey and Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, a.k.a. MAVEN -- captured data that are being relayed to NASA scientists. Both rovers, Curiosity and Opportunity, trained their "eyes" on the skies. The elderly Opportunity has already sent back images of the comet taken with its panoramic camera. It could take a few more days for all of the data to be downlinked and processed, the space agency said.

The teamwork should help researchers get a fuller picture of comet Siding Spring, which blazed by Mars on Sunday at 125,000 mph. At its closest approach about 11:27 a.m. Pacific time, the comet came within about 87,000 miles of Mars. Thats about one-third the distance between Earth and the moon.

After the comet formally known as C/2013 A1 Siding Spring was discovered in January 2013, scientists worried that it could damage NASAs orbiters. After all, a high-speed speck of comet dust could potentially crack a camera lens or permanently damage delicate electronic systems. So NASA officials decided to steer all three craft into a safe zone on the other size of the planet until the worst of the danger had passed.

But scientists also recognized that a flyby like this was a once-in-several-million-years event. So they put the spacecraft to work.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter trained three of its instruments -- the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, the Compact Imaging Spectrometer for Mars and the Context Camera - on the comet as it approached the Red Planet. Their goal was to get a clearer picture of Siding Springs nucleus and to examine the coma of dust and gas that surrounds it. The three instruments will continue to watch the comet for a few more days as it continues its flight toward the sun. (It will make its closest approach on Saturday.)

Mars Odyssey is expected to provide some pictures as well, courtesy of its Thermal Emission Imaging System, or THEMIS. In a few days, THEMIS will produce an image that combines the comet with part of Mars, according to a statement from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Chris Potts, manager of the Odyssey mission at JPL, confirmed Sunday that the spacecraft was able to carry out its scheduled observations within hours of the comets closest approach to Mars.

Both Odyssey and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter were also assigned to collect data on the interaction between the comets dust and gas and the planets thin atmosphere. In that task, they were joined by MAVEN, the most recent addition to NASAs Mars fleet. MAVENs primary mission is to study the planets upper atmosphere, and it has a suite of instruments designed to examine the interface between the highest reaches of the Martian atmosphere and the beginning of outer space.

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NASA's Mars fleet survives close brush with comet

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Three spacecraft at Mars survived a close brush with a comet that buzzed by the Red Planet Sunday (Oct. 19), while scientists on Earth captured some amazing images of the comet's close pass.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) probe and Odyssey spacecraft appear to be in good health after hiding behind Mars as Comet Siding Springwhizzed 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) past the planet at high speed. The three spacecraft and two rovers NASA's Curiosity and Opportunity plus the two other probes at the Red Planet, were also charged with gathering information about the comet and its effect on Mars.

"We're glad the spacecraft came through, we're excited to complete our observations of how the comet affects Mars and we're eager to get to our primary science phase," MAVEN principal investigator Bruce Jakosky, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, said in a statement. [See photos of Comet Siding Spring]

People using telescopes captured some incredible images of Comet Siding Spring and Mars from Earth. One photo, from the Siding Spring Observatory, shows Mars as an extremely bright spot with the comet shining in blue at the center of the image. Background stars also fill the stunning image of the close approach.

"Working on three scopes at the Siding Spring Observatory, we hoped that between them, we'd get a great result," astronomer Nick Howes told Space.com of his plans to capture images of the comet. "When the images started coming in, we knew we had something special, just from the raw data. There's been a lot of great images taken today; we're just proud that the education-driven Tzec [Maun Foundation] took some of them."

Another image of the comet, taken from Spain by photographer Juan Miguel Gonzlez Polo, shows the comet (a circled green streak) flying toward Mars on Oct. 17 before its closest pass with the Red Planet.

The spacecraft at Mars had to take cover behind the planet because the speeding dust sloughed off by Comet Siding Spring could have posed a threat to the mechanisms of the probes. The comet was flying through space at 126,000 mph (203,000 km/h) relative to Mars, according to NASA.

The spacecraft's evasive maneuvers seemed to have worked, and all three of NASA's orbiting spacecraft managed to gather some data as the comet flew by. The spacecraft observed any changes to the Martian atmosphere that could have been caused by the comet's dust, and scientists were also hoping to gather data the could help them learn more about the

"The telemetry received from Odyssey this afternoon confirms not only that the spacecraft is in fine health but also that it conducted the planned observations of comet Siding Spring within hours of the comet's closest approach to Mars," Odyssey Mission Manager Chris Potts, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, said in a statement.

Editor's Note: If you tracked Comet Siding Spring with a telescope and captured an image of the comet, let us know! You can send images and comments in to Space.com at: spacephotos@space.com.

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