Thursday, December 31, 2009

Thin Atmosphere




Earth's Atmosphere



I love blue. What can I say. I love this planet too. :-)

This image is taken by the crew on the IST-127 shuttle, fixin' ISS up with a porch and all.



More cool images from this mission.




Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Titan




Flash of Sunlight on Titan




That is more than we have here on this side of the planet Earth....




Gossip Girl




Klassy on Gossip Girl



I, Stellare and me concur. :-)




Starscapes




Stars Galore









Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Team

Monday, December 28, 2009

Book on DARPA




DARPA at Our Rescue



All incremental, of course!




Rocks




Rocks for Christmas



Christmas rocks for my favorite Santa Barbaraian :-)

She likes rocks - and this is a nice piece of information about ingeous petrology (=rocks made by fire, no less)




Friday, December 25, 2009

Fish




Fish Bowl




This is how I feel like sometimes...like after a zillion hours on an airplane. :-)




Dark Matter




In All Darkness



In these darkest of times (this time of the year in the extreme North of this planet...) secrets about dark matter is revealed. How appropriate.

I expect nothing less than news about white holes during the white nights this summer. :-)




Tibetan Glaciers




Tibetan Glaciers






This is a gorgeous presentation of Tibetan Glaciers - and the rest of the globe for that matter (do click on the image on the Earthobservatory site, it is worth it!).

According to the Chinese mapping authority, there are both shrinking and growing glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau. They use GPS to closely monitor the changes.




White Cats for Christmas




White C...at



White Cat Dreaming of a White Christmas. I'm absolutely sure it does. :-)




Saturday, December 19, 2009

The Moon




The Moon



Glorious Moon!




Tethy




Snow Ball in Space



Tethy is it's name - and it is a moon, silly. ;-)






Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Antarctica




Antarctica



Without the ice, this is what Antarctica would look like. It's nice and blue this map, so I like it. I'm not too fond of the idea of actually being able to observe this in real life, though. That means that all the ice would have melted. We really don't want that! :-)

Geology of Antarctica




Monday, December 7, 2009

Himalaya




Himalayan Mountains



Credit: ESA







Saturday, December 5, 2009

Antarctica




Dry Valleys, Antarctica




Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team




Space Ships




Space Ships



Oh, I love these spaceships. I can't wait until I'm rich enough to travel with them - aaaaalll the time! :-)




Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Earth Observation from Space




Earth Observation: Sharing Data



It sounds so simple, sharing data with others. It is not. So this is quite an achievement from ESA, having the members agreeing to openly share the data from the new family of Earth observation satellites.