Starship Asterisk*

Description: "color adjusted to mimic Earth lighting" I really don't understand why NASA is always doing this and not showing the pictures in original colors - like a human would see the scenery on Mars. I take this to mean that the colors were adjusted to approximate what our eyes would ...

Description: "color adjusted to mimic Earth lighting"

I really don't understand why NASA is always doing this and not showing the pictures in original colors - like a human would see the scenery on Mars.

This is an amazing and superb picture.

Pluto for Planet!

My first thought: Could it show the lakes on Titan? But this never seen picture had come too late from this old Saturn mission.

This is a fake. If the earth is lit like it is then the back side of the moon would be as well because the sun is shining on both. If you compare the surface of the dark side of the moon and the landmass of North America you can see almost the same color and brightness. Bright are the clouds and a ...

neufer wrote:[...]
But the quality today (July 12) is much better than it was in the July 11 APOD:

• http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-la ... -zoom.html

Wow! The last picture looks as interesting as Titan!

This is a wonderful picture. Looks like 10 meters away but it's millions of kilometers.

It's an amazing picture. The craters look quite dangerous for a safe and horizontal touchdown. Lucky guys. Not luck, skill. It was a controlled descent, with Armstrong at the (semi-automatic) controls. He guided the lander away from its expected touchdown point, which was far too rocky for a safe l...

It's an amazing picture. The craters look quite dangerous for a safe and horizontal touchdown. Lucky guys.

Fantastic.

It looks like a piece of the alps floating in space.

APODFORIST wrote:That's really an awesome picture!

How long the Galaxy needed for drifting the distance shown on the picture?

I was calculating in the meantime: 62 Million years.

(400.000 * 9460730472580km / 7000000 km/h)

Is it correct?

That's really an awesome picture!

How long the Galaxy needed for drifting the distance shown on the picture?

the well-timed photograph Just wondering how it was done: how does one make such a photo at that exact moment? Is it one in a series in burst mode, or could there be electronics that detect the firing of the engines? The russian helicopter pilot used the new iPhone 5s feature of filming HD in slow ...

Those size comparisons are impressive. When I first detected andromada nebula with my eyes I thougt I see the whole galaxy ... must have been a small part of the bright center only. I have several astro targets that I've superimposed the full moon on here: http://barryetter.zenfolio.com/p1045793279 ...

Hello Dave - how are you?

On video #3 in this collection the approaching meteor[it] look SOOO SCARY!

Was there a "Plan B" in case of car failure at most distant point from lunar module?

(I thought in case of emergency the astronauts would leave all equipment behind and would start WALKING back. Would have been 10km by walk too much?)

This reminds me to Stanislaw Lem's Solaris.

Pencil?
It looks like the Lufthansa crane:

It looks like an artists concept - but it's real and looks awesome.

Would it be of some scientific value to go visit the crash site of the rovers rocket propelled descent vehicle ? probably churned up a pretty good crater and deeper than anything Curiosity could dig up .......or not Apropos descent stage: Did the descent stage still had fuel inside after the crash ...

when Armstrong..........taking a moment for a silent salute .........said ' drifting to the right a little ", are there any images of the location causing him to drift to the right a little ? Maybe the crater shown in the panorama? I don't know. But I never saw images of the field of boulders ...

In that case, the real name is "Mount Sharp": Ah, so NASA was first by naming it - I didn't know that. BTW: On the panorama photos it looks more than a hill. 8-) Maybe this illusion is caused by 'missing snow' or steep rocks like on earth. I guess I need to stand there to be able to reali...

Yeah but the real name is Aeolis Mons. There was no need to overwrite an existing name.

This crater(s) made the landing(s) quite risky ...

This picture shows an alien world - the mountains of the crater rim are fantastic, though they seem a bit over elevated in this mosaic. Black and white makes it more beautiful.