It is not circling the Earth but orbits a point in the Sun-Earth system called the second Lagrange point.
"Almost all the deserts on earth at one point were forested, " he said.
His latest and 31st film Bread and Roses is characteristically down-to-earth and to the point.
"If you have ever wondered what it will feel like when the Earth crosses a tipping point, savour the moment, " he writes ominously.
Phobos-Grunt launched successfully on its Zenit rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and was dropped off into an elliptical orbit with an apogee (farthest point from Earth) of 345km.
As the name implies, it overlays photos with a map underneath, giving people a far more visual look at what they were seeing at a given point on Earth (or Mars, assuming Curiosity hasn't reached its data limit this month).
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This weekend, in addition to being the groundbreaking time when a national institution auctions off oversized goldfish, is also the time that we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Trieste descending to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point on earth 7 miles beneath the shiny waves of the Pacific Ocean.
From anywhere on earth, a compass will point north--a fact that changed the world.
At that point, the Earth's atmosphere and water will be boiled away, leaving the planet uninhabitable.
That means only Mercury and Venus (and our moon) can cause eclipses from a vantage point on the Earth.
Unfortunately, copyright holders have proven willing if not eager to purse a scorched earth strategy to make its point when granted additional enforcement rights.
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As Laine explains in the video, an elevator from the surface of the Moon to a rendezvous point between the Earth and its satellite is actually possible using current technology.
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The observatories will circle this point, keeping the Earth and our star in a near-straight line.
The perigee of its elliptical orbit (the closest point it comes to Earth) has actually risen slightly, and is just above 200km.
Early of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, proposed siting a vast, 2000 km-wide glass deflecting panel at the "inner Lagrange point" between the Earth and the sun, the latter diverting the sun's rays away from the Earth's atmosphere.
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The reason companies and governments waste so much of the earth's resources, the authors point out, is simple: the resources do not appear on the balance sheet.
Chimborazo to plant the Explorers Club flag atop the farthest point from the center of the Earth.
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Most scientists on both sides agree we are near the half precession point and solar energy at the earth surface in high summer at 65N is declining.
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The Cupola is travelling into orbit attached to the end cone of Node 3 but once in orbit will be transferred to a berthing point that looks straight down to Earth.
One data point about one small patch of the Earth having a hot month tells us nothing about trends.
At some point Chelsea will come back down to earth slightly, but they certainly look like the team to beat in the early going.
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My mention of mineral resource vulnerability may surprise some but I should point out the heavy dependency of rare earth minerals in technology such as mobile devices and consumer electronics, and the limited supply we have.
The new data may be the latest flash point in the debate over the reason behind Earth's rising temperatures.
The tungsten dust contemplated here would be about 30 micro-meters in diameter, and be released at a point 1100 km above the surface of the Earth.
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At this point in space, the gravity of the Earth and the Sun act in such a way that the telescope will be stationary relative to the Earth and Sun.
Indeed, some at the meeting argued that if aliens were to use an astronomical phenomenon called gravitational lensing (in which the gravitational field of the sun bends and amplifies radio waves and light from Earth), human signals could be amplified to the point where even the light from cities would be visible.
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All this misses the point: there are too many people for the Earth's fragile ecosystems.
The spacecraft would carry out experiments from a vantage point about 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth where there is an uninterrupted view of the Sun.
Although it is now widely accepted that the site was a burial ground at one point, based on human DNA found in the earth deposits deep underground, the length of time for which this was the case is not certain.
Dr Bilham says that the Indian government has even forbidden him to use a gravity meter in the region (such a meter measures whether a point is moving away from the centre of the earth, and therefore indicates a build up of strain that might be released as an earthquake).
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