Tag: #KeineZensur
Nature quote of the day
“Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.” – Josiah Gilbert Holland
Herschel Crater on Mimas

Mimas, small 400 kilometer-diameter moon of Saturn, is host to 130 kilometer-diameter Herschel crater, one of the larger impact craters in the entire Solar System. The robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn in 2010 recorded this startling view of small moon and big crater while making a 10,000-kilometer record close pass by the diminutive icy world. Shown in contrast-enhanced false color, the image data reveal more clearly that Herschel’s landscape is colored slightly differently from heavily cratered terrain nearby. The color difference could yield surface composition clues to the violent history of Mimas. Of course, an impact on Mimas any larger than the one that created the 130-kilometer Herschel might have destroyed the small moon of Saturn. via NASA https://ift.tt/yAUowJn
Hubble Peers at Celestial Cloudscape

This celestial cloudscape from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region in the Orion Nebula surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. via NASA https://ift.tt/zyrs6j3
Art Quote of the Day
“That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.” – Corita Kent
Nature quote of the day
“Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.” – Hosea Ballou
Artemis I Moonikin Campos Inspection and Install

Artemis I Moonikin Campos Inspection and Install via NASA https://ift.tt/tlz7fR4
Art Quote of the Day
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.” – Salvador Dali
Nature quote of the day
“The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.” – William Wordsworth
NASA’s B377SGT Super Guppy Turbine Cargo Airplane lands at Moffett Field at NASA Ames

In this picture from 2016, our Super Guppy, a specialized aircraft with a unique hinged nose, lands at Moffett Field at NASA Ames. via NASA https://ift.tt/dzApfLJ
Nature quote of the day
“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.” – Margaret Fuller
Art Quote of the Day
“Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.” – Georges Braque
Art Quote of the Day
“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.” – Orson Welles
Leaving Earth

What it would look like to leave planet Earth? Such an event was recorded visually in great detail by the MESSENGER spacecraft as it swung back past the Earth in 2005 on its way in toward the planet Mercury. Earth can be seen rotating in this time-lapse video, as it recedes into the distance. The sunlit half of Earth is so bright that background stars are not visible. The robotic MESSENGER spacecraft is now in orbit around Mercury and has recently concluded the first complete map of the surface. On occasion, MESSENGER has continued to peer back at its home world. MESSENGER is one of the few things created on the Earth that will never return. At the end of its mission MESSENGER crashed into Mercury’s surface. via NASA https://ift.tt/yH4ACtT