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Homesick for planet Earth

Find out how homesick astronauts spend their free time, and how recreating home cooking from freeze-dried ingredients can cheer them all up.

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Domestic titans

Feeling trapped by the idea that an impenetrable carapace of space trash could surround the planet, Elvia Wilk turned to thoughts of the new worlds still to be revealed here on Earth.

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Graphic Gallery: Blue

Earth is often known as the ‘blue planet’. Its blue skies and seas represent the air we breathe and the water we drink.

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Bubbles of history

Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.

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  • Eat organic, save the planet / Whole Earth Foods Ltd.
  • Eat organic, save the planet / Whole Earth Foods Ltd.
  • Astronomy: a diagram of the earth and other planets. Coloured engraving, 1846.
  • Astronomy: a diagram of the earth and other planets. Coloured engraving, 1846.
  • The planets and signs of the zodiac send down their influence on to the body of a man on earth; women representing nature (?) and medicine stand on the left, while scholars watch and dispute on the right. Engraving, 16--.
  • Boycott E$$o : no.1 global warming villain... / StopEsso campaign.
  • Boycott E$$o : no.1 global warming villain... / StopEsso campaign.
  • The Earth: map. Engraving, 1782.
  • The impact of biotechnology on the world
  • Astronomy: the phases of the Moon. Coloured engraving with tracing paper by J. Emslie, c.1850.
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