Gallery: In Billions of Years, Aliens Will Find These Photos in a Dead Satellite

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    *Earthrise.*
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    *Soyuz FG rocket launch, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.*
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    *Glimpses of America, American National Exhibition, Moscow World's Fair, 1959.*
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    *Narbona Panel, Canyon de Chelly, Navajo Nation.*
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    *Typhoon, Japan, early 20th century.*
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    *Mother Phan Ti Cuc with children Nguyen Huu An, (left) and Nyugen Thi Thanh (right), in the village of Hue, Vietnam.*
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    *Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park, 1940.*
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    *Waterspout, Florida Keys.*
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    *Old operating theater, St. Thomas Church, Southwark, London.*
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    *Dust Storm, Stratford, Texas.*
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    *Migrants seen by Predator drone, U.S.-Mexico border.*
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    *Greek and Armenian orphan refugees experience the sea for the first time, Marathon, Greece.*
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    *Construction of NORAD, Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs, Colorado.*
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    *Etching on the exterior of the Last Pictures gold plated clam-shell disk.*
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    *The Artifact set inside the Last Pictures disk.*
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    *The Artifact is a ten-by-ten grid of 100 nano-etched images.*
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