On Tuesday, October 20th, NASA made history when the OSIRIS-REx mission successfully completed a “touch-and-go” sample collection maneuver with asteroid 101955 Bennu over 200 million miles away from Earth.
And now, we have the timelapse to prove it. NASA shared a total of 82 images from spacecraft’s SamCam imager covering the approach, the touchdown at […]. petapixel.com
NASA has used sonification, the process of turning data into audio in order to perceive it in a new way, to reveal the 'sounds' of our universe. A video containing the generated audio was recently published by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. dpreview.com »
2020-10-08 21:44
NASA has recently decided to bless our eyes by sharing incredible satellite images of a massive orange poppy superbloom in Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. Turns out, the superbloom was so intense in mid-April that it was easily seen from space. boredpanda.com »
2020-05-11 16:07
On March 4, NASA shared the highest-resolution panoramic Mars image ever captured by its Curiosity rover. The panorama features 1. 8 billion pixels and is comprised of more than 1,000 individual images captured by the rover over the Thanksgiving 2019 holiday break in the US. dpreview.com »
2020-03-09 21:11
Photo via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin, used under Public Domain It took six months and more than 300 million miles, but NASA's InSight lander is now safe and sound on the surface of Mars and transmitting back the first bits of data to scientists here on Earth. dpreview.com »
2018-11-28 01:30
NASA has shared images of the California Camp Fire as seen from space. The wildfire started on November 8 and quickly spread, ultimately destroying nearly 8,000 buildings and burning 135,000 acres, according to Cal Fire, as well as claiming at least 50 lives. dpreview.com »
2018-11-14 23:03
NASA has published the first 8K footage from space on its YouTube channel. The three minute video, filmed aboard the International Space Station, details "the in-space experience and see how the international partnership-powered human spaceflight is improving lives on Earth, while enabling humanity to explore the universe. dpreview.com »
2018-11-07 01:26
About 4 months ago, I posted a photo of my 7-hexagon canvas cluster to Reddit’s r/space (on a Sunday, the only day you’re allowed to post your own astro photos to the sub). The title of the post was: “I’m a photographer and print-maker and my passion is the night sky. I made this 7-hexagon […] petapixel.com »
2018-07-27 21:39
Every 53 days, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flies close to Jupiter and travels from the giant gas planet’s north pole to and past its south pole, shooting photos along the way. The eye-opening 2-minute video above was created using a set of these still photos. petapixel.com »
2017-05-29 19:27
I recently had the amazing opportunity to work with some very interesting historical media. A retired NASA engineer friend contacted me having found a box of photographic films in his desk drawer. Turns out the box contained two partial rolls and several cut slides of 70mm film from the 1971 Apollo 15 mission! What a […] petapixel.com »
2017-04-25 18:38
With the very recent announcement of Kodak Ektachrome coming back to the market, there are folks saying that Ektachrome wasn't anything so special. Sure, it wasn't Kodachrome--but Ektachrome was capable of producing really, truly fantastic photos. thephoblographer.com »
2017-01-06 20:01