The Highest Resolution Image of Earth Ever
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012.
(Click the photo for the 8000x8000 image; definitely worth it)
It almost looks like it can’t be real. So real that it mustn’t be… Such a weird notion.
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Seeing Red (by NASA Goddard Photo and Video)
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solar systems movement between February 22nd to March 5th, 2011
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Veil-Nebula-Full
2 panel mosaic of the Veil Nebula in Cygnus using just Ha and OIII data. Taken with an SBIG STL1000M and a Takahashi FSQ106N mounted on a Software Bisque Paramount ME. Exposure time is 10.5:10 hours.
The Ocean of Storms can be seen at the top of this lunar orbital pic, w/ the Known Sea at the bottom. The rugged highland region, the Riphaeus Mountains bisects the two, being high enough to have survived the lava flooding that created this volcanic plain. North is top-right. Euclides, a 7 mile-wide crater, top left. Metric mapping b&w neg by Kenneth Mattingly, Apollo 16, Apr. 16-27, 1972.
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One of my favorite things about living in Florida has been space shuttle launches. Discovery went up today and it was still dark and I think this was the last ‘night’ launch. I really hate that NASA has to close down because [reasons for America being so goddamn in debt]. It’s a really intense (like, they could blow up/burn alive in their cabin at any moment) and beautiful thing to watch.
And it always makes me think about life a little differently…like as humans, we discovered glass around 3500 BCE. In 1609, Galileo became the first known person to see craters and what not on the moon. In 1961 (352 years later, which in respect to periods and eras, isn’t that long at all), manned space trips began. Like, that’s crazy. Absolutely crazy.
I always wonder where mankind will take itself. I wish I could be here to see (but not really, being alive is so much of a hassle sometimes)…
*This image is actually Discovery from a liftoff in 1994 on the 3rd of February (a month and ten days before my birthday
The Witch Head Nebula, illuminated by the blue supergiant Rigel in the constellation Orion.
![One of my favorite things about living in Florida has been space shuttle launches. Discovery went up today and it was still dark and I think this was the last ‘night’ launch. I really hate that NASA has to close down because [reasons for America being so goddamn in debt]. It’s a really intense (like, they could blow up/burn alive in their cabin at any moment) and beautiful thing to watch.
And it always makes me think about life a little differently…like as humans, we discovered glass around 3500 BCE. In 1609, Galileo became the first known person to see craters and what not on the moon. In 1961 (352 years later, which in respect to periods and eras, isn’t that long at all), manned space trips began. Like, that’s crazy. Absolutely crazy.
I always wonder where mankind will take itself. I wish I could be here to see (but not really, being alive is so much of a hassle sometimes)…
*This image is actually Discovery from a liftoff in 1994 on the 3rd of February (a month and ten days before my birthday](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0ehzqGBD81qzdmufo1_500.jpg)
