Category Archives: Space

Best fotos of 2009

Space, history, nature, people, animals, … I hope you have enjoyed them.
Note. Credits in this post link to orginal posts of this blog. Photo credits are placed on the landing pages.

The Orion nebula.
The Orion nebula. Credit TheBigFoto
More photos ›

Mars land, last best pics

Mars from space
More about  mars

Eroded Layered Deposits Near Ismenius Lacus
Eroded Layered Deposits Near Ismenius Lacus Credit NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
More photos ›

Aurora Borealis, the northern polar lights.

Aurora Borealis or commonly named The Northern Lights is a natural display of lights in the North Pole regions of our globe.  The lights appear as flowing streams of color in the sky taking different shapes and contours and often look like a multicolored curtain coming down from outer space.
The light show comes to us [...]

Aurora Boreal, Iceland.
Aurora Boreal, Iceland. Credit well_lucio
More photos ›

Weather from space eyes

A weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be either polar orbiting, seeing the same swath of the Earth every 12 hours, or geostationary, hovering over the same spot on Earth by orbiting over the equator while moving at the [...]

Cyclone over the Atlantic 02/05/2006.
Cyclone over the Atlantic 02/05/2006. Credit EUMETSAT
More photos ›

Earth’s gravity

After reading Newscientist’s article July eclipse is best chance to look for gravity anomaly by Phil McKenna, TBF has explored NASA’s archives to find out what our earth’s gravity looks like.
The total eclipse
The solar eclipse that will take place on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 will be a total eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude [...]

Global Gravity: Africa and Europe .
Global Gravity: Africa and Europe . Credit NASA/JPL/University of Texas Center for Space Research
More photos ›

When day meets night and we see stars

This post has been inspired by a photograph ,#5, of Martín Zalba, who has granted TBF the use of all these copyrighted photos in this post from his sets Bardenas fotografía nocturna and Nocturnas.
Wikipedia about Bardenas Reales
Wikipedia sobre las Bardenas Reales
After finishing this selection I have enjoyed the whole photostream of Martin Zalba which [...]

Bardenas Nov 2008 Serie roja.
Bardenas Nov 2008 Serie roja. Credit Copyright Martin Zalba
More photos ›

Saturn from space

NASA’s Cassini mission has been orbiting Saturn for five Earth years as of June 30, 2009. That’s about one sixth of a Saturnian year, enough time for the spacecraft to have observed seasonal changes in the planet, its moons and sunlight’s angle on the dramatic rings.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the [...]

This mosaic combines 30 images—10 each of red, green and blue light—taken over the course of approximately two hours as Cassini panned its wide-angle camera across the entire planet and ring system on July 23, 2008, from a southerly elevation of 6 degrees.

Six moons complete this constructed panorama: Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles, across), Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles, across), Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles, across), Pandora (81 kilometers, or 50 miles, across), Epimetheus (113 kilometers, or 70 miles, across) and Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles, across).

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured these images at a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometers (690,000 miles) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 20 degrees. Image scale is 70 kilometers (43.6 miles) per pixel.
This mosaic combines 30 images—10 each of red, green and blue light—taken over the course of approximately two hours as Cassini panned its wide-angle camera across the entire planet and ring system on July 23, 2008, from a southerly elevation of 6 degrees. Six moons complete this constructed panorama: Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles, across), Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles, across), Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles, across), Pandora (81 kilometers, or 50 miles, across), Epimetheus (113 kilometers, or 70 miles, across) and Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles, across). NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured these images at a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometers (690,000 miles) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 20 degrees. Image scale is 70 kilometers (43.6 miles) per pixel. Credit NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
More photos ›
feedback