varianta na Earthrise pořízená nedávno MRO (jestli to tu ještě nebylo...)

A to ještě v pondělí letí k ISS Progress s čistejma spoďárama.

BIDAK: [ TOXICMAN @ Elon Musk (Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors, Solarcity, Hyperloop atd.) ]

CLUMP: todle je taky nádhera-jak na dlani :)

CLUMP: Namib is an isolated barchan (crescent-shaped) dune which has been observed from orbit to move over time. On sol 1194 (December 16, 2015), Curiosity approached the southern face of the dune, the steep slip face down which sand cascades as the dune marches slowly southward.



Full resolution: http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/4-mars/2015/20151216_23713233831_c3ff5dcf48_o.jpg

Spinnable maps of the major moons are below.

Mapping Saturn’s Moons
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/18/science/space/nasa-cassini-maps-saturns-moons.html

This week, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its final flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The spacecraft has spent 11 years orbiting Saturn and studying its 62 moons.

Worth the wait: First public release of Rosetta science camera images of comet 67P | The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/12161908-worth-the-wait-first-public.html

I have spent a good chunk of the last three days playing with the data, and it's spectacular. Most cameras that have been sent to the outer solar system have detectors that are about 1000 pixels square; the OSIRIS detectors are 2048 by 2048, and breathtaking in their detail.

ESA provides a really cool browse tool that lets you get a feel for what's in the data. You can browse all of the Rosetta data from both OSIRIS science cameras and the Navcam engineering camera at this site. But, geek that I am, I want more information at a glance, so I set out to build my own browse pages to the data.