PHOTO OF THE DAY January 21, 2006  

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Where Idaho
When 2004
Photographer Mark Thiessen

"Astronomers hoping to study light from another Earth practice detecting clues to life in Earthshine (sunlight reflected off the Earth). One clue is the gleam of vegetation in infrared light—the 'red edge'—which (here) brightens an infrared image of an Idaho forest."

—From "Search for Other Earths," December 2004, National Geographic magazine

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