space – Jonathan Frei https://jonathanfrei.com Based on a true story Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:27:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://i0.wp.com/jonathanfrei.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/favicon-160x1601.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 space – Jonathan Frei https://jonathanfrei.com 32 32 76405128 Pluto https://jonathanfrei.com/2015/09/pluto https://jonathanfrei.com/2015/09/pluto#respond Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:25:45 +0000 https://jonathanfrei.com/?p=6641

A synthetic perspective view of Pluto, based on the latest high-resolution images to be downlinked from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, shows what you would see if you were approximately 1,100 miles (1,800 km) above Pluto’s equatorial area, looking toward the bright, smooth, expanse of icy plains informally called Sputnik Planum, in this image taken July 14, 2015 and released September 10, 2015. The images were taken as New Horizons flew past Pluto from a distance of 50,000 miles (80,000 km).

NASA / Reuters

via The Atlantic’s InFocus

]]> https://jonathanfrei.com/2015/09/pluto/feed 0 6641 Timelapse of Earth from the ISS https://jonathanfrei.com/2015/08/timelapse-of-earth-from-the-iss https://jonathanfrei.com/2015/08/timelapse-of-earth-from-the-iss#respond Wed, 19 Aug 2015 02:16:32 +0000 https://jonathanfrei.com/?p=6369 This video edited by Dmitry Pisanko compiles times lapses shot from the International Space Station.




There is also a collection of high resolution gifs from this video on Imgur that loop details of the 4K footage.

The ISS is impressive to behold, and the images of Earth taken from it are truly captivating. Seeing the world from this perspective is very eye-opening. The world is big and we take up such a very small part of it. 

I want to go to space, but, when I asked my wife if she’d go with me she said — with no hesitation — “Nope, nope, nope.” It seems increasingly possible that space travel is something I’ll be able to experience in my lifetime. My kids will likely find it to be commonplace.

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This animation features actual satellite images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and telescope, and the Earth – one million miles away. Credits: NASA/NOAA

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Twitter / Cmdr_Hadfield: Weightless water

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Black marble

The Americas light up in this composite image made by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. NASA reports the image was made over nine days in April and 13 days in October. According to NASA, 312 orbits were required to get a clear shot of each parcel of the Earth’s surface. Additionally, the image shows Superstorm Sandy making landfall over New Jersey on Oct. 29.

(via The Week in Pictures: Nov. 29 – Dec. 6- slideshow – slide – 1 – NBCNews.com)

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1850s poster of the planets

This is great.

via Kottke

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Perseid Meteor through the Milky Way

By Andrew Kumler

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Perseid Meteor through the Milky Way

By Andrew Kumler

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With its rover named Curiosity, Mars Science Laboratory mission is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. Curiosity was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes. In other words, its mission is to determine the planet’s “habitability.”

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With its rover named Curiosity, Mars Science Laboratory mission is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. Curiosity was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes. In other words, its mission is to determine the planet’s “habitability.”

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