Solar System

Drone · Feb 5, 2013

This image shows the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan. The glint off a mirror-like surface is known as a specular reflection. This kind of glint was detected by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer. It confirmed the presence of liquid in the moon's northern hemisphere, where lakes are more numerous and larger than those in the southern hemisphere. Scientists had confirmed the presence of liquid in Ontario Lacus, the largest lake in the southern hemisphere.

This mosaic from NASA’s Cassini mission shows the most complete view yet of Titan’s northern land of lakes and seas.

Dunes on Titan

D007 · Feb 6, 2013

Thanks for taking the time to post all this stuff.

I dig it.

Drone · Feb 11, 2013

New image of Saturn's north polar hexagon

And another new picture

WhiteNoise · Feb 11, 2013

neat thread!

Drone · Mar 12, 2013

Brand new images of Saturn's rings and its moon Rhea

Drone · Mar 25, 2013

A chaotic long-lived vortex at the southern pole of Venus. These are infrared images from VIRTIS instrument. The vortices are fed by the atmospheric superrotation and are trapped in polar regions.

Between 45 and 70 km above the surface there is a dense layer of sulphuric acid clouds that completely covers the planet and moves at speeds of 360 km/h in a phenomenon named superrotation, where the atmosphere rotates much faster than the surface of the planet. The origin of this effect is still unknown.

Waves in the atmosphere of Venus

Drone · Oct 17, 2013

Bump

Saturn and its rings, as seen from above the planet by the Cassini spacecraft

This colorized mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission shows an infrared view of the Saturn system, backlit by the sun, from July 19, 2013. The image covers a swath of Saturn and its rings about 340,000 miles (540,000 km) across that includes the planet and its rings out to the diffuse E ring, Saturn's second most distant ring. The mosaic covers an area about 9,800 miles (16,000 km) from top to bottom. Credit: NASA

Drone · Oct 24, 2013

The best visual and infrared wavelength images ever obtained of Titan’s northern land o’ lakes.

Titan is currently the only other world besides Earth known to have stable bodies of liquid on its surface, but unlike Earth, Titan’s lakes aren’t filled with water — instead they’re full of liquid methane and ethane, organic compounds which are gases on Earth but liquids in Titan’s incredibly chilly -180º C environment.

For an idea of scale, Kraken Mare (largest lake on Titan) is comparative in size to the Caspian Sea and Lake Superior combined. Kraken Mare is so large that sunlight was seen reflecting off its surface.

Drone · Oct 29, 2013

ESA's Mars Express orbited the Red Planet nearly 12500 times by October 2013. Its high resolution stereo camera images, assembled in this "fly-around," show riverbeds, volcanos, canyons and craters.

This shit is the most fantastic video I've ever seen. This is fucking amazing. What an amazing fly-by. True images of Martian terrain *swoons*

Drone · Nov 4, 2013

Five moons pose for the international Cassini spacecraft to create this beautiful portrait with Saturn’s rings. At the far right, and obscuring Saturn itself, is the planet’s second largest moon Rhea, which spans 1528 km. Rhea is closest to Cassini in this composition, at a distance of 1.1 million km. Its heavily cratered surface bears witness to a violent history, with many craters overlapping or erasing the traces of older impact events.

stuartb04 · Nov 6, 2013

loving all this mate

keep it up!!

Drone · Nov 28, 2013

Relatively new images of Saturnian moons Janus & Epimetheus

Janus

Epimetheus

In their orbital ballet, Janus and Epimetheus swap positions every four years - one moon moving closer to Saturn, the other moving farther away.

That's why they're called dancing moons

Drone · Dec 2, 2013

New High Resolution Images of Martian Terrain obtained by HiRISE spacecraft:

Echus Chasma

Kasei Valles. Download full version

Around Mars’ North Pole

Juventae Chasma

Asimov Crater

Drone · Dec 21, 2013

Mercury. New pictures and Messenger spacecraft fly over video:

Tolkien crater. 49 km (30 mi.) in diameter

John Lennon crater

Terror Rupes

Drone · Jan 14, 2014

Another magnificent video filmed by Mars Express spacecraft.

Drone · Jan 24, 2014

New video: Jupiter rotation from New Horizons (2014)

Drone · Jan 30, 2014

New image of Mercury made by MESSENGER

It's Tolstoj Basin and Nureyev Crater

4ghz · Feb 1, 2014

Is that in full color photo?

Peter1986C · Feb 1, 2014

Greyscale, Mercury is not of that color.

Drone · Feb 1, 2014

Unlike all of the other planets in the Solar System, Mercury is just bare rock. Mercury has practically no atmosphere, so we just see the rocky surface. And rock is gray. So color of Mercury and Moon is dull gray.

And here's a nice article called What color is each planet?

Drone · Feb 11, 2014

Video filmed in ultraviolet shows auroras on Saturn! That's so sexy!

Drone · Mar 21, 2014

New random sexy stuff

waves in Titan's seas

NASA Releases First Interactive Mosaic of Lunar North Pole

Crescent Saturn

Vernal equinox, view from space

Drone · Apr 16, 2014

Interesting views of Saturn

Flyby of Neptune moon - Triton

Drone · Apr 21, 2014

New images of Mercury taken by MESSENGER

Drone · May 15, 2014

New video of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot

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