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Take a Spin Around Mercury

February 19, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Created by the MESSENGER mission team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, this animation gives us a look at the spinning globe of Mercury, its surface color-coded to reflect variations in surface material [...]

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27 Years Ago: Voyager 2′s Visit to Uranus

January 24, 2013

Image of Uranus’ crescent taken by a departing Voyager 2 on January 25, 1986 (NASA/JPL) 27 years ago today, January 24, 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft sped past Uranus, becoming simultaneously the first and last spacecraft to visit the blue-tinged gas giant, third largest planet in the Solar System. The image above shows the crescent-lit Uranus [...]

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Take a Rollercoaster Ride Around Venus

January 21, 2013

If you’ve ever wanted to see what it’s like to buzz Venus like only a spacecraft can, here’s your chance: this is a video animation of images taken by ESA’s Venus Express as it makes a pole-to-pole orbit of our neighboring world. Captured in ultraviolet wavelengths, the images were acquired by the spacecraft’s Venus Monitoring [...]

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A Hi-Res Mosaic of Mercury’s Crescent

January 15, 2013

A view of Mercury from MESSENGER’s October 2008 flyby (NASA / JHUAPL / Gordan Ugarkovic) Every now and then a new gem of a color-composite appears in the Flickr photostream of Gordan Ugarkovic, and this one is the latest to materialize. This is a view of Mercury as seen by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft during a [...]

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Saturn. In color.

November 19, 2012

Color-composite of Saturn, made from raw Cassini images acquired in visible light channels on 18 Nov. 2012. (NASA/JPL/SSI. Composite by Jason Major.) Looking for an awesome view of Saturn as it would look from 1,951,681 kilometers (1,212,718 miles) away? Here you go. Just my and Cassini’s way of reminding everyone how beautiful our own Solar System [...]

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