NASA, Internet Archive & Flickr create historic image collection
NASA has partnered with Flickr to create the
NASA on The Commons' Photostream site where visitors can
help tell the photos' story by adding tags, or keywords, to the images to identify objects and people. In addition, viewers can communicate with other visitors by sharing comments. These contributions will help make the images easier to find online and add insight about NASA's history.
More details about this project:
NASA, Internet Archive And Flickr Launch Historic Image Collection - NASA - Aug.30.10
The images are shared with the vast collection of the agency's images at
NASAimages.org created in partnership with the
Internet Archive project.
08/30/10 11:41 PM |
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Catching good launch shots at the Cape
A conversation with
photographer Ben Cooper who has made many spectacular photos of Shuttle launches:
High 5: Ben Cooper, LaunchPhotography.com - par3c.
08/20/10 12:38 PM |
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Cassini sends more great snapshots
Check out the many wonderful new images from the Saturn system:
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Saturn's moons show their stuff - Cosmic Log
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Cassini Image Gallery: In Orbit - July/August 2010
08/17/10 08:59 AM |
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WISE and beautiful as well
A reader points me to an article about the marvelous images being produced by NASA's
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer(WISE) spacecraft:
NASA: the Nerdiest Paparazzi - NPR - July.20.10.
07/27/10 05:08 PM |
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Mars as art
A selection of wonderful images taken by NASA's
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the surface of the Red Planet:
Orbiting camera turns Mars into art - Spaceflight Now - July.15.10.
07/15/10 07:19 PM |
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Space documentaries at SnagFilms
This National Geographic documentary from 1997 about asteroid threats to earth is available for free:
Asteroids: Deadly Impact - SnagFilms.
A
search on "space" at SnagFilms brings up a number of interesting items including
Carl Sagan's Cosmos series.
07/02/10 11:49 AM |
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Images of the sun, earth, and more
Alan Boyle has a couple of items with links to great space images:
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Pinwheel on the sun - Cosmic Log - July.1.10
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Space shots from a new shooter - Cosmic Log - July.2.10
07/02/10 11:38 AM |
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Spacevidcast desktop wallpapers, ringtones and more
Spacevidcast offers a set of cool
desktop wallpapers, ringtones and other downloads here!
06/30/10 11:59 PM |
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Snapshot of Shuttle and skydiver
A reader sends a cool picture of a skydiver falling at the same time that a Space Shuttle is lifting off in the background:
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Update June.24.10 Robert Pearlman points out that the picture actually shows a Delta 2 rocket launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The photo was discussed in the following story by Leonard David from 2007:
Image of the Day : Synchronicity in the Sky - Space.com
06/23/10 01:23 PM |
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Great views from the ISS
Check out some wonderful images of sunrises and aurorae viewed from the ISS:
Stunning Sunrise and Aurora, As Seen from the Space Station - Universe Today - June.20.10.
06/21/10 12:27 AM |
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Shuttle Atlantis launch as seen from above
A great view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis launch on May 14th as seen by a F-15E Strike Eagle high above the Kennedy Space Center:
Stunning Space Shuttle Launch PHOTO Offers Unusual View Of Blast Off - huffingtonpost.com - June.14.10.
06/16/10 12:42 AM |
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Making great space images
A reader points to this article about a group of people who have made a great hobby of downloading publicly available space images, in raw form just as they come from observatories and spacecraft, and rendering them into black and white, editing, and then colorizing them. In some cases they animate the images:
A Space Voyage To A Solar System's Genesis - NPR - Apr.1.10.
Participants share their image handiwork with others at the
unmannedspaceflight.com website.
The article displays some of the group's spectacular images and also includes a video and an audio report.
Author and filmmaker Michael Benson is one of the guys who participates in the image legerdemain and is mentioned in the article. Here is a report on an exhibition at the Smithsonian of the most spectacular planetary probe images that he has collected:
From Beyond: A new exhibition of awe-inspiring photos from the first 50 years of planetary exploration - Air & Space Magazine - May.18.10. The article also includes some sample pictures from his exhibition.
Here are a couple of Benson's books:
05/31/10 12:25 AM |
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May space picture gallery
Check out these wonderful images:
The month in space: May 2010 - Picture Stories- msnbc.com/
05/29/10 12:09 PM |
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Astronomical strangeness
Alan Boyle offers an array of weird and wonderful astronomical images:
Strange shapes in space - Cosmic Log/msnbc.com - May.7.10.
05/08/10 11:27 AM |
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Seeing a rocket's sonic boom
Via
Boing Boing comes this cool video of the Atlas V rocket launch on February 11th with the Solar Dynamics Observatory Launch. At about 2 minutes into the video you will see a shimmering set of rings surround the vehicle as it goes supersonic. This is produced by the sonic boom wave made visible as it moves through the layer of water crystals in the air at that altitude.
02/20/10 11:35 AM |
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