It’s often repeated how most of the cameras that landed on the moon stayed on the moon. Astronaut Gene Cernan had been telling the story of how he left his camera on the lunar rover for years, recounting the tale in interviews.
“I left my Hasselblad camera there with the lens pointing up at the […]. petapixel.com
Four years ago, I set what seemed like an impossible goal: to make a functional Apollo 11 camera by the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. It was a crazy idea, especially with how inexperienced I was with nearly every process that would be required to do so. I would need to build a workshop […] petapixel.com »
2019-07-29 18:41
This month, Hasselblad is celebrating the 50th anniversary of becoming “the first camera on the moon.” And in addition to sharing some beautiful photos taken of and with the iconic Hasselblad Data Camera (HDC) and Hasselblad Electric Camera (HEC) used on the moon, they also shared a bit of fascinating history: their original moon landing […] petapixel.com »
2019-07-02 17:52
NASA has been urged to offer its "advanced imaging technology" to help in a new search for the Loch Ness Monster.
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NASA has released a spellbinding 360-degree image of an ancient river found on Mars recorded by the space agency's Perseverance Rover. [Read More]
NASA has streamed a high definiton video of a cat from deep space to Earth -- a distance of almost 20 million miles away -- using laser technology. [Read More]
A NASA astronaut whose parents are Iranian took a series of incredible photos of the West Asian country from space, poignantly adding that it "may be the closest I will ever get." [Read More]
During its 51st flight, NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter snapped a striking shot of Mars, showing an apparent blue sky -- a far cry from the typical dusty, dull sky seen from Mars' surface -- and captured a special guest in the frame, the Mars Perseverance rover. [Read More]
In December 1972, NASA's final Apollo mission (Apollo 17) took the iconic “Blue Marble” photo of the whole Earth. Many, including science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, had expected that the sight of Earth from afar would instill the belief that mankind’s future lay in space. [Read More]
NASA's Juno Spacecraft team is currently evaluating data to determine why a majority of photos captured by the JunoCam in its most recent flyby were "unusable." While similar to a previous glitch, this new one lasted much longer and resulted in the loss of 214 photos. [Read More]