Tagged: space
Stickney Crater
Image Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASAExplanation: Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet’s moons in 1877. Over 9...
Huygens: Titan Descent Movie (2005.01.14)
Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/U. Arizona; Music: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #4; YouTube Upload: djxatlanta,Explanation: What would it look like to land on Saturn’s moon Titan? The European Space Agency‘s Huygens probe set down on the Solar System’s cloudiest moon in 2005, and a time-lapse video of...
Shadows Across Jupiter
Image Credit & Copyright: Damian PeachExplanation: Two dark shadows loom across the banded and mottled cloud tops of Jupiter in this sharp telescopic view. In fact, captured on January 3rd, about a month after the ruling gas giant appeared...
ISS and the Summer Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Luis ArgerichExplanation: Clouds on a summer night frame this sea and skyscape, recorded earlier this month near Buenos Aires, Argentina. But planet Earth’s clouds are not the only clouds on the scene. Starry clouds and nebulae along...