Exploring the Solar System, Full Sheet of 5 x $100 Pentagonal Postage Stamps, USA 2000, Scott 3410
The US Postal Service issued these Exploring the Solar System commemorative stamps on July 11, 2000 in Anaheim, cA This sheet of five 1-dollar stamps, designed by Richard Sheaff of Scottsdale, AZ, are based on different images of the earths sun and are the first pentagonal stamps ever issued by USPS They depict (clockwise from the top) an image of a solar eclipse from a satellite by Dan Mccoy an illustrated cutaway view of the sun by artist Jim Lamb a digitally restored NASA image of sunrise from space, courtesy of Stock Solution an image made by Skylab on December 19, 1973, of a solar eruption, courtesy of Solar Physics groupNaval Research Laboratory and a photograph from Earth of the sun in a partly cloudy sky by craig Aurness, courtesy of corbiss The selvage is a montage of Saturn and several of its moons imaged by Voyager I in November 1980, courtesy of NASAFeatures of Exploring the Solar System, Full Sheet of 5 x $100 Pentagonal Postage Stamps, USA 2000, Scott 3410
Five gummed pentagonal stamps, featuring 5 different images of the sun collectible stamps or use for postage
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