Once a month
get new photos
and expert tips.

Photography
Main Photo Galleries Wallpapers Photo of the Day Photographers Photo Tips Buy Prints

Photo of the Day: Best of November 2008

PREVIOUS2 of 8NEXT


A time-lapse photo captures the brilliant arc of light streaking through the night sky after a rocket blast-off in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This rocket was likely used to launch a weather satellite, which will orbit the Earth and gather data on atmospheric conditions, such as cloud cover, precipitation, and air pressure, used to predict the weather. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "We’re Doing Something About the Weather!" April 1972, National Geographic magazine) Buy a print of this photo. Photograph by Otis Imboden