August 17, 2016 at 6:01 pm
Every Extraterrestrial Body We Have Landed On and Photographed
Views from the final frontier
Views from the final frontier
The 83x (2000mm equivalent) optical zoom on the Nikon Coolpix P900 digital camera is bananas
The water-world Enceladus appears here to sit atop Saturn’s rings like a drop of dew upon a leaf
Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan looking like a boss on this lunar rover. Taken December 11, 1972
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft’s vantage point in orbit around the moon
“Ahhh so that’s what that amazing celestial event, that I totally couldn’t see, looked like!” – me every time
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly is spending a year in space and his daily stream of photos continue to inspire. This one is from day 180 and shows Italy at night, illuminated by the moon.
Gives new meaning to the word “moonlight”
The same side of the moon always faces Earth but this view was captured by a NASA satellite one million miles away.
He also had to fill out a travel voucher form for the historic mission.
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