From an explosion on the sun to a successful docking of a commercial spacecraft with the International Space Station, to a frog sent accidentally flying by a NASA rocket launch, it was an exciting month in the space biz—unless you’re the frog.
Window on Infinity: Pictures from Space
Jesse Allen / NASA Earth Observatory
Sept. 22, 2013, the autumnal equinox, marks the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere, but the seasonal harvest begins early in the harsh continental climate of eastern Kazakhstan. By Sept. 9, 2013, when the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite acquired this image, several fields were already bare. Others were dark green with pasture grasses or ripening crops. The fields fill the contours of the land, running long and narrow down mountain valleys and spreading in large squares over the plains.
