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Will Smith and Jaden Smith attend a photocall to promote their new film 'After Earth' at the W Hotel on May 29, 2013 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
NASA / Reuters
Lights across the Earth are pictured in this NASA handout satellite image obtained by Reuters December 5, 2012.
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A poster from the first Earth Day in 1970.
Arild Heitmann
The aurora borealis traces the shifting patterns of the Earth's magnetic field, creating a spectacular midwinter show in Nordland Fylke, Norway. The green light in this image comes from oxygen atoms high in the atmosphere, which have been energized by subatomic particles from the solar wind.
Air Force photo / Master Sgt. Jason W. Edwards
Sure, Felix Baumgartner plunged more than 24 miles to Earth on Sunday, becoming the first human ever to break the sound barrier outside an aircraft or spacecraft. But Chuck Yeager went supersonic Sunday, too. The retired Air Force brigadier general, 89, broke the sound barrier 65 years to the day after he became the first man ever to fly so fast. It happened Oct. 14, 1947, aboard the Bell X-1. Sunday, at Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base, he did it in the back seat of an F-15 with Captain David Vincent up front. To match Yeager's feat, Baumgartner'll have to break the sound barrier – again -- when he's 98.
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NASA graphic depicts the Earth flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14.
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When asked how he and his LIFE colleagues continued to work even when chronicling intense apprehension and even grief in the astronauts' families' lives, Morse immediately cites this photograph of Neil Armstrong's wife, kneeling in both sorrow and relief when Armstrong and pilot Dave Scott safely return to Earth after their 1966 Gemini 8 mission is cut short due to tech problems. "There wasn't a question of not shooting this. This is exactly what we were there for, to capture everything, from the pain to the triumphs. We stepped back a bit here, but the families knew us, and trusted us, and we stayed and we did our work."
Pix Inc.—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Top left and right: In the middle of green meadow-land boiling hot water spurts from earth. Bottom left and right: A "mud volcano," practically inactive. The striking mud in its crater is continuously boiling, but is hardly ever expelled. All located in the Haukadalur geothermal area east of Reykjavik.
World Perspectives
The Earth birthed the distant moon — thanks to an act of cosmic violence
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With the Earth visible in the vast distance above the moon's bleak horizon, Apollo 11's lunar module ascends toward the command module (piloted by NASA astronaut Michael Collins while Armstrong and Aldrin were on the lunar surface).
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A view of Earth from space during the Apollo 11 mission, July 1969.
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SPACEWALK: With the Earth in the background, astronaut Soichi Noguchi of Japan waves from the Shuttle payload bay. Noguchi made some repairs to the space station
David A. Aguilar (CfA)
GJ1214b, shown in this artist's conception, is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth.
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President Kennedy greets Lt. Col. John Glenn three days after Glenn orbited Earth three times in the Mercury capsule, Friendship 7, Florida, February 1962.
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After launching on March 3, 1969, the crew of Apollo 9 spent 10 days in low Earth orbit. On the fifth day of mission, Jim McDivitt and Russell Schweickart separated the Lunar Module from the command ship and flew it for the first time — 145 miles over the Atlantic Ocean.
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A view of Earth from space.
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A view of Earth's vast Pacific Ocean
NASA / JPL
Launching from Earth in August 2011, the Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in 2016 to study the giant planet from an elliptical, polar orbit.
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The Apollo 9 Lunar Module, a.k.a., "Spider," remains attached to the Saturn rocket stage while in low Earth orbit, March 1969.
NASA / Corbis
The planet Earth.
John McConnico / AP
Director of the Earth Policy Institute, Lester Brown.
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A scene from Planet Earth.
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Kepler-20f exoplanet, computer artwork. This Earth-sized planet is found in the constellation Lyra.
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Original caption from LIFE magazine. "After all contact with Scott has been lost [during his return to Earth and splashdown], the Carpenter family comes back to the TV set and sits there -- Candy, Jay, Scotty, Rene and Krissy -- waiting out those long minutes for a word, any word, from downrange."
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A model of a space capsule simulates the return to Earth in a NASA lab, 1961.
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An artist's illustration of the recently discovered exoplanet roughly two-thirds the size of Earth.
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A computer-generated image of objects in Earth's orbit
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An artist's conception of Gravity Probe B orbiting Earth to measure space-time
Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Sammlung Moderner Kunst in der Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
"The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air" by Adolf Ziegler, (circa 1937)
Disney / Pixar
The last little droid on Earth is an avid collector of the treasures that humans left behind.
BBC
A scene from the Disney film "Earth"
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Orbiting space laboratory Skylab aloft above Earth.
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An artist's rendering of a Super-Earth (in red) in the planetary system around Gliese 581.
Denis Scott / Corbis
An artist's drawing of an asteroid heading toward Earth
Lu Guang / Greenpeace International / EPA
Ice sculptures made from glacial meltwater at the Temple of Earth in Beijing mark the start of the 100-day countdown to the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen
Harvard
An international has spotted a new planet 2.7 times bigger than Earth, circling a dim red star called GJ 1214, just 40 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus.
X-ray: NASA / CXC / MIT; Optical: NASA / STScI
A giant ring of black holes were recently discovered about 430 million light years from Earth
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Docked "Apollo 9" command service module with Earth in the background.
Bill Wadman
Portrait of Jhumpa Lahiri, author of the "Unaccustomed Earth."
Roger Ressmeyer / Corbis
The center of the Milky Way galaxy, as seen from Earth
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Keanu Reeves in Scott Derrickson's remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still
RON EDMONDS/AP
Bush, helping volunteers in the Adirondacks on Earth Day 2002, has paid a low political price for his environmental actions
IRADA HUMBATOVA / REUTERS
EARTH AND SKY: The Axum obelisk back where it belongs
STUART ISETT
"Heaven and earth "Ordinary life in the shadow of Bandar Seri Begawan's splendid Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque
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Kumi Koda performs on stage at the Tokyo leg of the Live Earth series of concerts, at Makuhari Messe, Chiba on July 7, 2007
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Brendan Fraser as Professor Trevor Anderson in "Journey to the Center of the Earth."
Chaiwat Subprasom / Reuters
"Heaven on earth:" Created by artist Chalermchai, Wat Rong Khun, or the White Temple, is a celebration of Buddhist thought
Photograph for TIME by Thomas Dworzak / Magnum Photos
SCORCHED EARTH: Factory pollution has ruined much of the land around Karabash — just one ecological disaster of many afflicting the industrial heartland of Chelyabinsk province
NASA / AP
The Space Shuttle Atlantis, undocked from the space station, hovers over Earth, September 19, 2006
PHILIP HOLLIS FOR TIME
DOWN TO EARTH: Morgan, at left, and Pillinger developed a mass spectrometer that detects TB
Verizon Wireless NYM/Russ Rowland
B.A.P participates in a high touch at Verizon Presents APAHM Concert Tour 2013: B.A.P LIVE ON EARTH, on May 16, 2013, in New York City
Caption from LIFE. Portable railroad, lent by a nearby plantation owner, is set down in the main street of the leper village for a major project in earth moving.
Caption from LIFE. Portable railroad, lent by a nearby plantation owner, is set down in the main street of the leper village for a major project in earth moving.
Danny Wilcox Frazier / Redux for TIME
A dead branch sits in the cracked earth near the Morse Reservoir, north of Indianapolis, July 22, 2012.
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Life magazine Special Edition, August 11, 1969. "Eagle turned its docking port towards Columbia moments before hookup. earth is in upper right corner of large picture ..."
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Unpublished. John Glenn with cosmonaut German Titov (center) at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, 1962. Titiov was the second human to orbit the Earth — after fellow cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin — and at 25 was (and still is) the youngest person ever to fly into space.
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St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke addresses the media during a press conference at the Russell Training Center on Jan. 17, 2012 in Earth City, Miss.
REUTERS / NASA / JPL
This set of NASA handout images compares the Link outcrop of rocks on Mars (L) with similar rocks seen on Earth (R).
LIFE magazine 1960
August 16, 1960: U.S. Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger leaps from a gondola 102,800 feet (roughly 19 miles) above the Earth.
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A woman walks past a huge Earth on the last day of the people's summit for Rio+20 in Rio de Janeiro on 22 June, 2012
NASA / ESA / CFHT / CXO / M.J. Jee and A. Mahdavi
This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520, formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters. Abell 520 resides 2.4 billion light-years away from Earth
NASA / AP
The near-Earth asteroid Eros is seen from the NEAR spacecraft at a distance of 127 miles, March 3, 2000.
Artwork by Lynette Cook / Courtesy of the National Science Foundation
This artist's conception shows the inner four planets of the Gliese 581 system and their host star, a red dwarf star only 20 light-years away from Earth. The large planet in the foreground is the newly discovered GJ 581g, an Earth-size planet that orbits in the star's habitable zone.
JPL-Caltech / UCLA / NASA
The giant asteroid Vesta is shown here as the smallest body among other similar bodies in the solar system: Mars, Mercury, Earth's moon and the dwarf planet Ceres.
President Richard Nixon speaks with Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin (still in their quarantine room) aboard the recovery ship Hornet following the crew’s return to Earth, July 24, 1969.
President Richard Nixon speaks with Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin (still in their quarantine room) aboard the recovery ship Hornet following the crew's return to Earth, July 24, 1969.
Julius Mwelu
A boy plants a flower after taking a swim in pools formed by rain water in Mathare. This photo won First Place in the Friends of the Earth International Photo Competition.
NASA
A screen shot from an animation showing the orbit of 2010 TK7 (green dots), the first known Earth Trojan asteroid, discovered by NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of NASA's WISE mission.
S. Charpinet / Univ. of Toulouse
Artist's rendition of two hot Earth-sized planets orbiting a subdwarf B star.
JAXA
Over 4.7 million miles from earth, IKAROS burnishes Japan's image as a technological pioneer
ESO / L. Calçada
This artist's impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc.
David Mercado / Reuters
Bolivian President Evo Morales attends the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth session in Tiquipaya, on the outskirts of Cochabamba, on April 20, 2010
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Brit Marling and William Mapother star in a scene from Another Earth.
MARK GREENBERG / AFP / Getty Images
The Virgin Galactic "SpaceShip2" glides toward earth on its first test flight after release from the mothership, "WhiteKnight2" over the Mojave desert in California.
Mark Greenberg / Virgin Galactic / Reuters
The Virgin Galactic "SpaceShip2" glides toward earth on its first test flight after release from the mothership, "WhiteKnight2" over the Mojave desert in California.
Courtesy Audi of America
Audi: Starting this summer, the Audi A8 and then other models will get an upgraded MMI system that integrates Google Earth into its navigation system
Kepler Mission / Dana Berry / NASA
Kepler-10b is a scorched world, orbiting at a distance more than 20 times closer to its star than Mercury is to Earth's sun
Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images
People gathered in a darkened Nokia Plaza at the LA Live entertainment complex hold candles in downtown Los Angeles on March 28, 2009 for a celebration to mark Earth Hour.
Lynette Cook / NASA
This artist's conception shows the inner four planets of the Gliese 581 system and their host star, a red dwarf star only 20 light years away from Earth.
NASA TV / Reuters
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer 02 is moved to the International Space Station aboard the station's robot arm for installation on the orbiting laboratory with the shuttle Endeavour and the Earth's horizon as a backdrop is this still image from NASA TV May 19, 2011.
NASA / JPL / Caltech
An artist's rendering of the latest planet discovered orbiting 55 Cancri, which is part of a solar system similar to Earth's.
Science Faction / Getty
Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan holds the American flag as the earth hangs suspended in the background.
Kirsty Wigglesworth, FILE / AP
Archaeology students Steve Bush, right, and Sam Ferguson sieve through earth amongst the stones at Stonehenge, England, March 31, 2008.
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The Galileo probe after its detachment from the cradlelike device aboard the earth-orbiting space shuttle "Atlantis"
NASA
This undated image released by NASA shows an artist rendering of the Juno spacecraft circling Jupiter. The spacecraft planned to fire its engine on Aug. 30, 2012, the first of two engine burns to set it up for an Earth gravity assist next year. It's due to arrive at Jupiter in 2016.
J.R. Eyerman—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. World War II vet, decathlete and football star-turned-actor Woody Strode, as the gladiator Draba. Todd von Hoffman, author of The Big Damn Book of Sheer Manliness, once wrote that Strode was "one of the most ridiculously perfect human specimens to ever walk the Earth." Note the camera peeking in from the lower left.
Steve McQueen in his sleeping bag on a camping trip, 1963. “This is it, man,” he told LIFE. “I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.”
Steve McQueen in his sleeping bag on a camping trip, 1963. "This is it, man," he told LIFE. "I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth."
Van Waerbeke / Heymans / CFHTLens collaboration
The observations show that dark matter in the Universe is distributed as a network of gigantic dense (white) and empty (dark) regions, where the largest white regions are about the size of several Earth moons on the sky.
AFP / Getty Images
A screen grab made on October 21, 2010 in Kano from a video allegedly released by the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram in northern Nigeria shows two alleged sect members standing against a background of a Google Earth shot of the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi.
Kirsty Wigglesworth, File / AP
In this Monday March 31, 2008 file photo, archaeology students Steve Bush, right, and Sam Ferguson, left, sieve through earth amongst the stones at Stonehenge, England
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