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Tag: planetary science

May 16, 2012

Awe inspiring time lapse sequences from the International Space Station. #whoa

It’s footage like this that makes me wish I was an astronaut (best viewed in full screen).

“The International Space Station Expedition 30 crew shot some truly awe-inspiring time-lapse sequences flying over practically every square mile of the globe.

I downloaded the high-resolution image sets that have been made available by the NASA Johnson Space Center and constructed this short time-lapse film in hi-res 2K project format. I was amazed at how clean the Nikon D3S images turned out (even at ISO 3200 and above) which kept the post-processing requirements to a minimum.

By Adonis Pulatus.

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May 13, 2012

Shots of the Earth and Moon in the same frame. #beautiful

I just think this one is very cool.

“Earth (on the left) and the moon (on the right) were seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on Aug. 26, 2011, when the spacecraft was about 6 million miles (9.66 million kilometers) away. The photo was taken by the spacecraft’s onboard camera, JunoCam.” CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech

And here is the first one ever.

“This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and moon — the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft — was recorded Sept. 18, 1977, by NASA’s Voyager 2 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth. Because the Earth is many times brighter than the moon, the moon was artificially brightened so that both bodies would show clearly in the prints.” CREDIT: NASA

Via Space.com

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May 7, 2012

This space video is beautiful to watch but also makes me feeling very very small. Stunning mix of Cassini and Voyager footage.

I suggest watching this in HD, on a large screen, and preferably in the dark.

The footage in this video is derived from image sequences from NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions. I downloaden a large amount of raw images to create the video.

Mixed by Sander van den Berg.

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April 24, 2012

Phases of the moon (80′s videogame style)

By Mitra Farmand, via Hey Oscar Wilde!

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April 20, 2012

Grain of sand or small moon? Can you guess which is which?

The top image is a portrait of two grains of Coney Island sand. Below it is a NASA image of Phobos, one of the moons of Mars.

By Alison Cornyn via McSweeney’s.

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April 13, 2012

Wonderful visual aid depicting relative sizes of different stars. a.k.a. Why we should feel very very small.

By Dave Jarvis via wiki.

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April 12, 2012

“That’s no moon.” Actually, it is a moon (despite the uncanny resemblance to the Death Star).

Basically, if I ever have my own top secret headquarters, it would have to be this…

…I wonder how much it would cost to install a laser system.

A photo of the moon Mimi, taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft while orbiting Saturn in 2005.

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March 27, 2012

Ocean currents visualized: strangely reminiscent of Van Gogh

This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007.

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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March 26, 2012

Imagine if we took every elephant in the world and laid them end to end in space…

From Fake Science.

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March 20, 2012

Striking graphic showing volume of Earth versus volume of Earth’s water versus volume of Earth’s fresh water

In this illustration, the blue ball represents the volume of all the water on earth, relative to the size of the earth. The tiny speck to the right of the blue ball represents Earth’s fresh water.

CREDIT: David Gallo/WHOI.

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March 9, 2012

How do you organize a space party? You PLANET!

By arseniic via DeviantArt.

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December 8, 2011

Caused by glaciers, earthquake, wind dynamics, pooling rain water, or very very busy gophers?

This mystery might be cool to use in a class about hypotheses generation.

(Click on image for full size).

Specifically: “Mima mounds ( /ˈmaɪmə/) is a term used for low, flattened, circular to oval, domelike, natural mounds found in the northwestern United States, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, that are composed of loose, unstratified, often gravelly sediment that is an overthickened A Horizon. These mounds range in diameter from 3 to more than 50 m; in height 30 cm to greater than 2 m; and in density from several to greater than 50 mounds per hectare. Within the northwestern United States, they are typically part of what is commonly known as hog-wallow landscape.” (wiki)

See all the hypotheses here. (Admittedly, I’m partial to the thought of busy gophers moving tons and tons of soil!)

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September 7, 2011

Best journal article title ever! (slide)

Link to paper at Nature here.

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