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”
====
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 summer’s hurricanes form and move towards North America in this marvelous video of atmospheric aerosol particles created from data captured by satellite sensors:
** GMS: How Solar Flares Affect Earth – “A team of scientists —led by Laura Hayes, a solar physicist who splits her time between NASA Goddard and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland— investigated a connection between solar flares and Earth’s atmosphere. They discovered pulses in the electrified layer of the atmosphere—called the ionosphere—mirrored X-ray oscillations during a July 24, 2016 flare.”
====
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 Theatre of Voices:
** The surface of the Moon as seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to the music of ‘Lux Aeterna’ by György Ligeti:
** Aurora over Canada as seen from the ISS:
** One month of sun in a three minute time-lapse:
====
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 the 8th pass displayed with a musical soundtrack is quite spectacular:
Here is a more interpretive approach to Juno’s data:
A multimedia project based on an image of Jupiter I processed that was captured by Juno spacecraft. Illustration, animation and special effects by Rachel Richards. Music composed and performed by Rachel Richards.
A Perijove 08 image “Heavily processed via Photoshop” by RichDaMann:
====