November 9, 2016 at 4:06 pm
Picture of the Day: Earth Seen from the Window of the Apollo 12 Spacecraft
A striking view of Earth taken in November of 1969
A striking view of Earth taken in November of 1969
It’s like a ‘moonrise’, only Jupiter-sized 🙂
Since 1972, NASA’s iconic “Blue Marbles” have inspired and captured our collective imaginations
Views from the final frontier
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
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