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apollo 16 (1972) // gemini 9 (1966)
Every Photo From NASA’s Apollo Missions Are Now on Flickr
The Project Apollo Archive uploaded more than 10,000 high-resolution images the astronauts took during NASA’s Apollo Missions of the 1960s and 70s. The collection includes every never-seen-before photo shot with the Hasselblad cameras on the lunar surface, from Earth and lunar orbit, as well as during the journey between the two. All the photos are unprocessed versions of the original scans.
Photos from last night - Left is my window reflection, which doubled the moon, right before the eclipse started. Middle is around 3:25am, right is around 5am. I was hoping the Bloodmoon would be closer to The Netherlands but it wasn’t, so the pictures aren’t as great as I was hoping
Moons of Mars
Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are thought to be captured asteroids. Both satellites were discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall and are named after the characters Phobos (panic/fear) and Deimos (terror/dread) who, in Greek mythology, accompanied their father Ares, god of war, into battle. Ares was known as Mars to the Romans.
Behold mighty Jupiter, encountered by the Voyager 1 space probe on February 5, 1979. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Seeing the first actual great image of Pluto reminded me how Carl Sagan said “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.“ All we could see before was a blurry speck and by sending the New Horizons spacecraft out there we discovered a new world.
credits: NASA/APL/SwRI
The New Horizons spacecraft is set to pass Pluto on July 14th, and when it does it will give us the first real glimpse ever seen of the giant ball of rock and ice.
In anticipation of that historic moment, the National Space Society commissioned this beautiful video teaser from Wanderers creator Erik Wernquist. Most of the video is spent showing off the worlds we’ve already explored with spacecraft programs, but it’s all preamble for
It’s all preamble, however, for Wernquist’s visual take on Pluto, a world 3 billion miles away. The two shots we see are colorful and awe-inspiring, and in less than a month we’ll see just how right he got it.
Venus Transit - Wolfgang Tillmans (2004)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Veuns, transit (2004) and Urgency XII (2006)
At long last, and for the first time, the surface of Pluto. And the first high-resolution photograph of Pluto’s moon Charon, along with the entire portrait of Pluto.