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2030: The Year Solar Energy Will Be Beamed Down From Space With Lasers!

Since the 1960s, space enthusiasts and international space agencies have had one dream: to collect solar power and use it on earth. What seemed utopic more than 40 years ago is about to become reality: the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA especially is hell-bent on harvesting solar energy from space by 2030. Let's take a trip up into the Earth's orbit to get a glimpse of this brave new world.

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Crescent-Shaped Earth Rising, As Seen From The Moon

Just like people on Earth debate if the moon looks like a face or a rabbit on certain days or forms a smiley face with two stars, have you ever thought about what the Earth looks like from the Moon? And that the Earth rises there as well? If you happen to be there, that is, or even better, orbiting around it. Luckily, astronauts have been taking pictures of Earthrises for a while. Here’s a breathtaking selection.

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