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A frigid ball of gas in the blackness of space, Cassini's new home,
Saturn, appears cool and serene in this natural color image. The
spacecraft obtained this view as it sped outward from the planet on its
initial orbit. At the left, Saturn's shadow stretches almost completely
across the rings, while at the right, the planet's illuminated face
appears to gaze down at the far-off Sun.
Images taken through blue, green and red filters with the Cassini
spacecraft wide angle camera were combined to create this view. The
images were taken on July 17, 2004, from a distance of about 5.8 million
kilometers (3.6 million miles) from Saturn. The Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or
phase angle of the image is 93 degrees. The image scale is 346 kilometers
(215 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space Science,
Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras, were
designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at
the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ and the Cassini imaging team home page,
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most accomplished orbiter, the champion of the shuttle fleet. Discovery flew on 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 240 million kilometers (150 million miles)--more than the other orbiters. It shuttled 184 men and women into space and back, many of whom flew more than once, for a record-setting total crew count of 251.
Because Discovery flew every kind of mission the Space Shuttle was meant to fly, it embodies well the 30-year history of U.S. human spaceflight from 1981 to 2011. Named for renowned sailing ships of exploration, Discovery is preserved as intact as possible as it last flew in 2011 on the 133rd Space Shuttle mission.
NASA transferred Discovery to the Smithsonian in April 2012 after a delivery flight over the nation's capital.
La capsula Soyuz atterra a Milano (Soyuz capsule lands in Milan), a temporary exhibit with the Soyuz TM-14 capsule on display. This exhibit in downton Milan, Italy, was organized by the ASI Italian space agency (17-30 Nov 2008).
Nearly invisible upon first glance, Saturn's moon Enceladus is a small bright dot beyond the planet's rings in this Cassini spacecraft image.Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles across) is visible above the rings, just to the left of the planet. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.The image was taken in visible red light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov. 28, 2009. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 2.4 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 102 degrees. Image scale is 142 kilometers (88 miles) per pixel.The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at ciclops.org.credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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2010-06-18
Space Shuttle Discovery after landing at Edards Air Force Base, CA and going past the Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) and on to the NASA facilities on base. Picture taken in 1988.
I loved this movie when I was a kid. But looking at it now It may have been the worst movie of the 90's. Space jam is just so bad and unless your in it for the nostalgia stay away from this movie.
Before anyone says anything along the lines of
"Y r he wearin' poleez yooneeform if he'z a piraat lol?!?!"
He's a pirate; he quite obviously stole the uniform becasue it was black, like his ship.
Duh.
This combines some weird machines in a factory, a roller-coaster, and some nasty-looking delta-wing aircraft to produce a futuristic cityscape.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is NASA's manned spacecraft center. It is the home of the Apollo program in addition to being a training facility. On display are Apollo artifacts as well as the Saturn V rocket.
Johnson Space Center (NASA). Houston, Texas.
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
"Shared Space" is a tool that allows scenographers to create virtual sound spheres in any space in a museum. This new experience offers the public the possibility to merge more deeply with works of art. While wearing headphones, the visitor is at the center of every sound. Depending on their location in the museum, the visitor can focus on a specific sound, story, or sound texture. In this way, senses other than sight, may be aroused and stimulated.
I was organizing photos from our Florida trip over a year ago and found some groups of 3 exposures that I had shot at the Kennedy space center Apollo building. I just had to do an all out grunge HDR on this one.
Space Invader @ Paris
J'avais un peu de retard dans la mise en ligne de certains de mes spécimens photographiés...
This image shows several dark storms confined to a region below 30
degrees south latitude in Saturn's atmosphere. This turbulent region has
produced quite a few storms during Cassini's approach to Saturn,
including some that have merged. A number of other interesting
smaller-scale atmospheric features are also becoming visible.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on
May 11, 2004, from a distance of 26.4 million kilometers (16.4 million
miles) from Saturn through a filter centered at 750 nanometers. The image
scale is 157 kilometers (98 miles) per pixel. Contrast in the image was
enhanced to aid visibility.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the
European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space
Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras,
were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based
at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ and the Cassini imaging team home page,
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most accomplished orbiter, the champion of the shuttle fleet. Discovery flew on 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 240 million kilometers (150 million miles)--more than the other orbiters. It shuttled 184 men and women into space and back, many of whom flew more than once, for a record-setting total crew count of 251.
Because Discovery flew every kind of mission the Space Shuttle was meant to fly, it embodies well the 30-year history of U.S. human spaceflight from 1981 to 2011. Named for renowned sailing ships of exploration, Discovery is preserved as intact as possible as it last flew in 2011 on the 133rd Space Shuttle mission.
NASA transferred Discovery to the Smithsonian in April 2012 after a delivery flight over the nation's capital.
This is the space occupied by my dad's short-lived pizzeria, Mama Mia's, in 1984-1985. It's been several things since, most recently "The Kneaded Touch." Somehow appropriate for a location that has housed at least 3 different pizzerias.
Cold here today. I got the space heater going in the computer room with me while the rest of the house is cooold.
Lots of filling and sanding to get the doors to fit flush. This is the identical mold they used for the exact same kit Revell sold in the 1980s and they are not ashamed to sell it for 30 years without fixing the horrendous gaps and malformed parts! One huge issue is the transparent cockpit window piece. Off by up to 5mm on one side and half the roof is missing, lots of filler!
This image of the lit face of Saturn's outer, or A, ring was taken by the
Cassini spacecraft shortly after crossing the ring plane after its orbit
insertion burn. The image was taken with the narrow angle camera on July
1, 2004. The rings in the middle of the image are approximately 134,000
kilometers (83,200 miles) from the center of Saturn.
The bright wave pattern near the center of the image is caused by the
overlap between spiral waves of varying particle density generated by
Saturn's moons Janus and Epimetheus, which share an orbit. These two moon
orbital periods are very close to each other and, at this location, affect
ring particle orbits.
Cleaner spiral patterns caused by single satellites can be seen in other
images; some of the weaker wave patterns in this image are also spiral
patterns generated by smaller moons outside the main rings. All these
spiral waves are of the same nature as the arms of spiral galaxies. The
finest features which can be discerned (inwards, or to the left, of the
bright wave feature in the center) are less than one mile across. Their
cause is not currently known.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the
European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space
Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras,
were designed, developed and assembled at JPL.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
credit: NASA/JPL
Space between university buildings, these plants are green even in wintertime, they say it is due to the greenhouse effect of those glass walls.
Space Engine is a Celestia type space simulator that is more complex and graphically advanced. It barely runs on this laptop I am using so I can't comment on the features I want to see.
There are thousands of stellar systems to explore and you can land on the planets and they have terrain and clouds etc.
The key thing is being able to create your own planets as I did here. I always got frustrated when I would download a star system for Celestia only to find 100's of asteroids and dull boring planets. I want to see some color and crazy geography.
Real exoplanets are so bizarre we have nothing like them to work off of to create new textures.