September 14, 2017 at 12:21 am
After Two Decades in Space, Cassini is About to Crash Into Saturn. These are the Final Images
After two decades in space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is nearing the end of its remarkable journey of exploration
After two decades in space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is nearing the end of its remarkable journey of exploration
Little Planet Factory has created a 3D-printed, 1:1.5 billion scale model of our Solar System
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 polar stereographic projection by NASA shows the south pole in the center of the map and the equator at the edge
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
Incredible when you think how far from Earth this picture was taken from.
On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.
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