A cool video from NASA showing the phases of the Moon for every hour throughout 2018: This 4K visualization shows the Moon’s phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2018, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Two ‘supermoons’ will ring in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Some space eye candy: ** Top 17 Earth Images of 2017 taken by crew members of the International Space Station: ** The Earth: 4k Extended Edition with soundtrack. ** Colorful water in microgravity ** A review of the Juno mission […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully placed 10 Iridium satellites into polar orbits on Saturday evening from Vandenberg AFB in California. The launch produced an amazing light show visible over much of Southern California. Note that the second light spot […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Videos: A SpaceX tribute + Flying over Mojave Crater & Jupiter + “Orbit Ever After” short film
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A selection of interesting space videos: ** Stash Capar: “55 years after JFK’s famous Rice Moon speech, the stars continue to beckon.” ** Two from Seán Doran ** Jamie Magnus Stone: “Orbit Ever After” ====
Check out the interactive 3D rotatable globes of solar system planets and moons at www.google.com/maps/space/ ** Earth: ** Mars: ** Saturn’s moon Titan: ====
** Space Station Transits the Moon | NASA – Though the ISS flies just a few hundred kilometers above the earth, it appears to be passing over the Moon in this photo: ** GMS: 2017 Hurricanes and Aerosols Simulation – Watch last […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out the big collection of vidoes created by Seán Doran showing beautiful space imagery. Here is a sampling: ** Imagery of Jupiter taken during the Juno probe‘s ninth orbit is viewed with the music of the ‘Orphic Hymn’ by Jóhann Jóhannsson. Performed by the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Mission Juno spacecraft recently completed its 8th low pass over the clouds of Jupiter. Images from Perijove 08 can be found on the JunoCam site, including images that have been enhanced by amateur astro-imaging whizzes. This video of enhanced imagery from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Spaceweather.com reports on another massive explosion from the sun, this time on the farside: Earlier today, July 23rd, a spectacular CME emerged from the farside of the sun. Coronagraphs onboard the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) tracked the fast-moving cloud […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On July 14th, a Russian Soyuz rocket launched a large government earth observation satellite as its primary payload and 72 small satellites, including 48 for the earth observation company Planet (formerly Planet Labs). Planet has something in the range of 150 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Take a quick tour of Southern Europe in 4K high-definition video via the International Space Station: Got three minutes to spare for a tour of southern Europe? That’s all the time it takes, when you have a 4K camera orbiting […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Juno probe is in a wide elliptical orbit around Jupiter that sends it way out into space far from the gas giant at one end of the ellipse and then down close to the cloud tops at the other. Below […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out filmmaker Jan Fröjdman‘s marvelous tour of some of the weird and wonderful features on the Mars surface using images captured by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO): A Fictive Flight Above Real Mars – Vimeo Part of the caption: The anaglyph images of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Citizen scientist Bjorn Jonsson made this beautiful picture of a spot on Jupiter by applying image processing techniques on an photo taken by the Juno spacecraft, which is currently in orbit around the gas giant. And another Juno image from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A couple of Mars items: ** The Pale Red Dot: Colonising Mars and Beyond – Panel discussion of Mars settlement: Dr Ellen Stofan (former NASA Chief Scientist) Libby Jackson (UK Space Agency program director) Andrew Weir (Award-winning author of The Martian) Prof. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has worked on the International Space Station as an ESA member of the crew since last November. His six month mission will end in May. During his stay in space he has carried out multiple spacewalks and performed many science experiments. He […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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NASA has recently released new improved images and video of night-time views of the earth’s surface lighting. New Night Lights Maps Open Up Possible Real-Time Applications NASA scientists have just released the first new global map of Earth at night […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Beautiful views of sand dune formations on Mars via the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO): ** The Splitting of the Dunes The mound in the center of this image appears to have blocked the path of the dunes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The winds on Mars may never be as forceful as depicted in The Martian but they can certainly pick up dust and move it across the ground as seen in these video clips of Dust Devils: Martian Winds Carve Mountains, Move […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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TRAPPIST.one is an independent site dedicated to the TRAPPIST-1 star system, recently discovered to have seven earth sized planets circling it, three of which are in the habitable zone (see postings here and here). The site includes a page of posters and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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