More cool views of Jupiter via Juno images enhanced by citizen scientists: ** Jupiter in the Rearview Mirror | Mission Juno ** Juno’s Perijove-15 Jupiter Flyby, Reconstructed in 125-Fold Time-Lapse – Gerald Eichstädt From the caption: Early on September 07, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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From Kiruna, Sweden comes this view of beautiful autumn aurora accompanied by a nice soundtrack (Daniel Birch – Attack Of The Birds): ====
The Chinese rocket company OneSpace launched a OS-X suborbital rocket on Thursday powered by a solid-fueled motor, which typically produce more rapid acceleration than liquid-fueled engines. The launch was captured in a remarkable video by a Chinese imaging satellite: Here’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out the latest 360 degree panorama of the Martian landscape taken by the rover Curiosity: Curiosity Surveys a Mystery Under Dusty Skies After snagging a new rock sample on Aug. 9, NASA’s Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on Mars, producing a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Audio: Recent space podcasts – SpaceX, Freeman Dyson, wormholes, Martian dust storms, and more
Here is a selection of recent space related audio webcasts starting with Bob Zimmerman on the John Batchelor radio show. Be sure to support Bob with his annual fund-raising campaign now underway. Check out Bob’s periodic updates on what is happening with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
These processed images of Jupiter from the Juno probe never get old. Here is a new one: Chaotic Clouds of Jupiter This image captures swirling cloud belts and tumultuous vortices within Jupiter’s northern hemisphere. NASA’s Juno spacecraft took this color-enhanced […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA offers live Youtube streaming of camera views of the earth from the International Space Station: Behold, the Earth! These are live Earth views from the International Space Station from the High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment. While the experiment […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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
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…