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18.7.15

Imagenes del Mundo - Mexico - Volcan de Colima

Actividad en el volcán de Colima en el oeste de México tras la destrucción del domo en el cráter.

Imagenes del Mundo - Nita - Nepal

Nita, de 9 años, sobrevivió al terremoto gracias a que su abuela, de 77, hizo de escudo y murió cuando el techo de su casa se desplomó sobre ambas.

Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 July 18 - Fly over Pluto (Video)

Fly Over Pluto 
Video Credit: NASAJohns Hopkins Univ./APLSouthwest Research Inst.
Explanation: It took 9.5 years to get this close, but you can now take a virtual flight over Pluto in this animation of image data from the New Horizons spacecraft. The Plutonian terrain unfolding 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) below is identified as Norgay Montes, followed by Sputnik Planum. The icy mountains, informally named for one of the first two Mount Everest climbers Tenzing Norgay, reach up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface. The frozen, young, craterless plains are informally named for the Earth's first artificial satellite. Sputnik Planum is north of Norgay Montes, within Pluto