Posts Tagged moon
Blue Marble, Silver Moon
I think it’s good to look at our home now and then, from a different perspective than the ground-view we get every day. The image above is simply stunning:
This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet. Much of the information contained in this image came from a single remote-sensing device-NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS. Flying over 700 km above the Earth onboard the Terra satellite, MODIS provides an integrated tool for observing a variety of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric features of the Earth.
And below, an enchanting view of the Moon, as seen from the International Space Station by astronaut Noguchi Soichi on February 28:
Another beautiful “Silver” moon! I love it! Enjoy full moon tonite, everybody.
Photo by Astro_Soichi, twitter.com/astro_soichi
31st LPSC
Posted by Danielle in Perspectives on February 24, 2010
No, that’s not a typo in the title. Next week marks the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, which made me a bit nostalgic about my LPSC experience, ten years ago next month. After my summer internship in 1999, I presented my research at my first (and only!) poster session the next spring, at the 31st LPSC.
So………… here I am, with my poster:
I think it’s rather pretty, for a poster. :D The session went well, but it was pretty nerve-wracking. I had no idea what to wear to a poster session, so I bought that little suit jacket and skirt (and was a bit overdressed as a result.) Still, I survived my first poster — and the conference was a blast.
I’m no longer “in” science, as it were, but I still like to keep up as I can on the latest in lunar studies. I’ll always love it, even if I’m not active in the field. I’d love to go to LPSC again, just for interest — and hey, there’s always interesting things to do in Houston!
Spacemen Rock
Posted by Danielle in Fashion & Accessories on February 18, 2010
I absolutely MUST have this shirt. Spacemen DO rock! (I especially love the cymbal and hi-hat details where the command module antennae would be.)
Atmospheric
Point of light, by Flying Jenny (forthebirds on Flickr)
It’s no exaggeration that Flying Jenny — founder of the Space Tweep Society — is one heck of a photographer. The pictures above and below are sundogs she photographed on Monday; the last is a lovely crescent moon she captured that same day. In fact, it was a great sky all day long, and you can see sunrise, sunset and more sundogs here. I highly recommend the slideshow.
Vivid sundog, by Flying Jenny (forthebirds on Flickr)
The moon is fantastic and ethereal in this shot, as if it’s rising from mists at the dawn of time… or perhaps falling at the end of time, with the clouds poised to receive it.
Cupped, by Flying Jenny (forthebirds on Flickr)
Celestial Glass
Posted by Danielle in Collectibles on January 19, 2010
I was reminded of these fantastic glass sculptures last week by a commenter; I saw a display of Glass Eye Studio’s Celestial Series in a rock shop coming back from the Oregon coast after Christmas. I’m a sucker for glass anyway, but these are particularly spectacular — I especially like the Moon (naturally) and Mercury.
The Moon is Full of H2O
Posted by Danielle in Fashion & Accessories on January 13, 2010
I discovered this totally awesome shirt two days after Christmas on Shirt.Woot, and impulsively bought it. (TEN! DOLLARS! SHIPPED! Now that is an impulse-buy of VALUE!) I originally went to see it because I was told the page had modified lyrics to Walking on the Moon by The Police, and boy did it ever. I reprint them here for your (my?) enjoyment:
NASA said if there was no
Water on the Moon
They would make it BYO
Water on the Moon
They crashed an Atlas V, ka-boom
Water on the moon
Then scanned the ejecta plume
For water on, water on the MoonSome might cry
The Moon’s way up in the sky, too high
And plus it’s like super dry, but I
Would gladly suit up and fly, goodbye
And give it a tryParty up at our place
Water on the Moon
Go swimming at our lunar base
In water on the Moon
We will throw a big shebang
With water on the moon
We’ll reconstitute our Tang
With water on, water on the moon
Blue Eclipse
Credit & Copyright: Jean Paul Roux
This photo was featured on APOD over the weekend, and I simply had to share it. The sharpness and color is just fantastic!
The International Year of Astronomy 2009 ended with a Blue Moon and a partial lunar eclipse, as the second Full Moon of December grazed the Earth’s shadow on December 31st. The New Year’s Eve Blue Moon eclipse was visible throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and parts of Alaska, captured in this two exposure composite in cloudy skies over Saint Bonnet de Mure, France. Playing across the Moon’s southern reaches, the edge of Earth’s umbra, or dark central shadow, appears on the right side along with the prominent ray crater Tycho. At maximum eclipse, the umbra covered only about 8 percent of the diameter of the lunar disk.
Dark Side
Posted by Danielle in Home & Office on December 29, 2009
A fantastic limited-edition carpet by Martin Mostboeck, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing; sadly I can’t seem to find it on the manufacturer’s website, so I couldn’t tell you what it costs or how to get one. Sure is neat, though! (Found via Curved White.)
Galileo Moon
This is an oldie but a goodie (apparently NASA thought so too), taken by Galileo en route to Jupiter:
During its mission, the Galileo spacecraft returned a number of images of Earth’s only natural satellite. Galileo surveyed the moon on Dec. 7, 1992, on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-1997.
This color mosaic was assembled from 18 images taken by Galileo’s imaging system through a green filter. On the upperleft is the dark, lava-filled Mare Imbrium, Mare Serenitatis (middle left), Mare Tranquillitatis (lower left), and Mare Crisium, the dark circular feature toward the bottom of the mosaic. Also visible in this view are the dark lava plains of the Marginis and Smythii Basins at the lower right. The Humboldtianum Basin, a 400-mile impact structure partly filled with dark volcanic deposits, is seen at the center of the image.
What I like about this image is the way the green filter brings out the different formations and rock types within the maria (the dark areas.)
Moon, circa 1908
Posted by Danielle in Museums & Exhibits, Picspam on November 30, 2009
This mysterious image came from the bottom of a Dark Roasted Blend post, and is attributed to this LiveJournal community (though I couldn’t find the original post; perhaps they couldn’t either.)
Perhaps one the most striking examples of astronomy science visualisation is this humongous model of the Moon from 1908, almost a surreal doorway to another world, a snapshot of bizarre art/science history.
Does anyone know where this model was, or anything more about it? So far my online searching has turned up nothing…. (I’ve tagged it in the “museums” category because it seems far-fetched that a model of this size would not be in a museum, but I’m prepared to reclassify it if I find out it’s from something else!)
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