August 11, 2016 at 3:32 pm
A One Year Timelapse of Earth From a Million Miles Away
Every 2 hours, NASA’s EPIC camera takes a photo of Earth from the same spot in space, about a million miles away
Every 2 hours, NASA’s EPIC camera takes a photo of Earth from the same spot in space, about a million miles away
The footage is so sharp it doesn’t even look real
The polar stereographic projection by NASA shows the south pole in the center of the map and the equator at the edge
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed giant, vivid auroras on the poles of the Solar System’s largest planet
Sand dunes cover much of this terrain, which has large boulders lying on flat areas between the dunes. It is late winter in the southern hemisphere of Mars, and these dunes are just getting enough sunlight to start defrosting their seasonal cover of carbon dioxide. Spots form where pressurized carbon dioxide gas escapes to the surface
Mercury is roughly 1/3 the size of Earth and you can fit about 1.3 million Earths inside the Sun…
The water-world Enceladus appears here to sit atop Saturn’s rings like a drop of dew upon a leaf
Beautifully set to soothing music. Sit back, relax and enjoy
Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan looking like a boss on this lunar rover. Taken December 11, 1972
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