Jan Fröjdman has made this amazing short movie that you’ve just got to see! He choose some interesting locations of Mars’s anaglyph images, taken by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and processed them into panning video clips. The anaglyph images are based on grayscale images, so he has therefore colour graded the clips […]
Jupiter‘s clouds are amazing, it’s like watching a painting move. The thing you will remember most about Jovian is its Great Red Spot (GRS). It’s a massive anticyclonic storm that’s existed for more than 350 years. On 3 April 2017, the GRS was measuring 16,350 km (10,159 mi) in width, or about 1.3 times as wide as Earth. […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed stunning light shows on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. The extraordinary vivid glows shown in the photographs are known as auroras. They are created when high-energy particles, from solar wind or other sources, enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with […]
Mercury is one of the least explored planets in the Solar System. It’s the smallest one, with a diameter of 4,879 km (3,032 mi), whereas, in comparison, Earth has a diameter of 12,742 km (7,918 mi), and it’s the closest planet to the Sun. It orbits the sun in 88 Earth days, which is faster than any other planet, and has an average […]
NASA’s space probe New Horizons sent back the best close-ups of Pluto mankind will probably see for decades. They are the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby. They’ve made a mosaic of the images, which you can find below. The images form a strip 80 km (50 mi) wide on a world 3 […]
You won’t believe what kind of mess we’ve made up into our atmosphere! As of 2013, more than 500,000 pieces of debris, the size of a marble or larger, travelling at speeds up to 28,164 km/h (17,500 mph), are orbiting our planet. More than 20,000 pieces are larger than a softball, and millions more are […]
NASA’s space probe New Horizons made some images of Pluto at a distance of around 50 million km. The colour movies below, assembled from the images, show Pluto and its largest moon Charon in motion and colour. New Horizons is on its way to Pluto, and will make its closest approach on 14 July, flying by around 12,500 km (7,800 […]
I know it’s an oldie, but I just had to share this amazing video of Earth, seen from the International Space Station, with you. The video is made by Michael König, and consists of time-lapse sequences of photographs taken with a low-light camera by the crew of expeditions 28 and 29 aboard the ISS, from August to […]