EARTH AND ITS HISTORY:

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ORIGIN OF EARTH'S SOLAR SYSTEM
501 Formation of the terrestrial planets -- view of proto-Earth in solar nebula with reddened sun and dust in background.
489.5 View in solar nebula with planetesimals. (Painted for Victor Safronov's 80th birthday
331 Planetesimals with reddened sun in distance; small impact happening on side of planetesimal.
100 In the solar nebula.
EARTH
Views from space:
460 Earth 65 million years ago, at time of asteroid impact, showing continents in shifted positions.
369 Rendezvous at last: Mir and Space Shuttle over LA
284 Family: Earth, Moon, and Sun (seen from 54,000 km beyond moon).
227 First step: panorama with shuttle and moon.
224 Moon over Hawaii: view over the Big Island.

Origin and history (see also Moon, origin):
439 Early continental landscape before plants colonized the land; dust devil, eroded rocks.
440 Sunset, moon, and city lights in Sonoran Desert
460 Earth 65 million years ago, showing continents closer together around (then-forming) Atlantic Ocean.
334 Plesiosaur
333.5 When the moon was nearer the Earth; seascape with large full moon
333 Half-grown Earth, seen from space; with craters.
301A Deep sea geothermal vents.
297 First life forms on land (lichens on rock; desert)
293 Land emerging from sea in volcanic eruption.
256 End of Earth: sun as a red giant fills the sky, over melted-down molten surface.
244 Primordial volcanism: fire fountains with moon closer to Earth, very large in the sky

Impacts by asteroids and comets (see also Moon, origin):
405 Binary asteroid encounters Earth; one of the pair is shown as fireball on night side.
385 Asteroid bearing down on Earth (cover of Hazards book, Univ. Ariz. Press)
300 Collision that formed the moon.

The Siberia impact of 1908:
433 1 second before explosion, from 400 km SE.
452 Moment of explosion from 60 km S.
488 A minute after the explosion from about 5 km away.

Spacecraft, orbital views, hardware:
462 Launch of Mars Global Surveyor (eyewitness view).
461 Beyond the clouds (eyewitness view based on launch of Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Observer).
369 Rendezvous at last: Mir and Space Shuttle over LA
366 Launch of Mars Observer, eyewitness view
357 Mir: Morning above the Sea (painted in Moscow and flown to Mir Space Station)
350 Mir-like station in high orbit, sunrise
319 Apollo-Soyuz link-up
317 Space shuttle on pad with Jupiter in beyond clouds (Commission for NASA Fine Art Program).
308 Anticipation 3: Seacoast scene; space shuttle on pad; painted from nature at Kennedy Space Center.
306 Anticipation 2: Shuttle on pad in overcast.
301 Anticipation: Distant shuttle beyond bushes, under big sky and moon.
245 Orbital view over Hawaii
240 Aerobraking: probe heating in atmosphere.
227 First step: orbital panoramic view with shuttle.
217 Earth's children: ring of space stations around Earth.
212 Shuttle tank reentry at night over Hawaii: eyewitness view, with Mauna Loa erupting.
166 Explosion in orbit: unmanned satellite blowup producing space debris.
163 Orbital view of Hawaiian islands.

Astronomical Observatories:
450 Summer rainstorm over dome as seen from Kitt Peak.
477 Mt. Palomar summit and domes from nearby valley.
478 Dome of the 200-inch telescope, evoking spiral galaxy in background.
480 Sunlight reflecting off the dome of the 200 inch.
481 Dusk on Mt. Palomar, showing dome at twilight.
382 Mt. Wilson: View of L.A. + Pasadena at dusk

Volcanoes:
484 Kilauea Caldera - Rainy Day
483 Full Moon over Kilauea, during Pu'u O'o Eruption
456 Mt. Teide Volcano, Tenerife, Canary Islands.
340 Hawaii: Steam plume from Kalapana lava flow entering the sea.
307 Hawaii: In Haleakala crater.
286 Mexico: Elegante crater with Pinacate peaks erupting in distance.
281 Iceland: Boiling mudpots at Lake Myvatn.
223 Pit crater: fern growing in a Hawaii crater.
205 California: Ubehebe crater, Death Valley
197 Hawaii: Cinder cone above Waimea.
186 Mexico: Dawn on Pinacate summit cinder cone.
126 Hawaii: Active pit crater with molten lava.

Eclipses:
337 1991 Hawaii solar eclipse through clouds.
336 1991 Hawaii solar eclipse over palm tree.
335 Eclipse seen from space: view of moon shadow hitting backlit atmosphere.

MOON
Origin and history:
507 As the moon formed -- moon with red-hot magma ocean on outskirts of ring system around Earth. Sun in background.
506 Contact, minutes after the collision that spawned the moon. Sun in background.
447 5 hours after impact that formed the moon, showing streamer of red hot ejecta, based on computer models.
397 Erupting volcanic caldera on early moon.
300 Collision that formed the moon.
230 Moon aggregating in orbit near Earth, with ring of debris around Earth, plus large shadow of moon.

Surface features:
489 Late afternoon on the moon.
435 Homage to Chesley Bonestell: The Bonestell rocket from "Conquest of Space," on the real moon.
459 Morning in a lunar crater; on floor in shadow of the wall; Earth in sky.
397 Volcanic caldera erupting; fire fountains.
268 Vertical view of cratered surface.
266 Midday on the moon. Light from zenith.
144 Sunset on the moon, with zodiacal light and blueish Earthlit landscape.

Human exploration:
351 Return to Moon: three astronauts atop bluff.
318 Lunar morning: astronauts in crater.
316 International orbital station over moon.
314 Dawn landing.
228 Next step: over the moon.
214 Lunar base during Eclipse of sun by Earth
210 Astronauts on floor of crater Tycho
204 Earthrise from lunar orbit: Rendezvous of US and Russian Soyuz-type spacecraft in lunar orbit.
165 Manned craft over cratered surface.
164 Takeoff of manned craft from cratered surface.
161 Looking homeward: astronaut in Earthlit crater.
129 Fresh basalt lava flow.
105 Return to the moon: group of astronauts on rim of a large crater.

Abstract/symbolic:
243 Moon flower: flower imposed on disk of moon