Even if you’re not into Twitter, the messages from Soichi Noguchi are worth a look. He’s currently aboard the International Space Station and regularly updates Twitter with photos he takes from orbit. I want his job, check out the Aurora!
Posts Tagged ‘Space’
Tweets from space
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Picture of Britain under snow from Nasa
Friday, January 8th, 2010
Thanks to @Jangles for pointing out this great pic of the recent snowfall in the UK from Nasa.
Snow blanketed Great Britain on January 7, 2010, as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite passed overhead and captured this image. Snow covers most of England, from the east to the west coast. The cities of Manchester, Birmingham, and London form ghostly gray shapes against the white land surface. Immediately east of London, clouds swirl over the island, casting blue-gray shadows toward the north.
The image is from the Earth Observatory site, here:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=42237
Pictures from Mars
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
From a fantastic set of pictures from Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on the Boston Globe’s Big Picture site. The MRO has been orbiting Mars for a few years now sending back hi-res images of the planets surface. The images are a real mixture of familiar looking landscapes and alien details like the swirls in the image above.
Google Moon
Monday, July 20th, 2009To help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landings Google has added the moon to Google Earth.
“Forty years ago, two human beings walked on the Moon. Starting today, with Moon in Google Earth, it’s now possible for anyone to follow in their footsteps,” said Moon in Google Earth Product Manager, Michael Weiss-Malik. “We’re giving hundreds of millions of people around the world unprecedented access to an interactive 3D presentation of the Apollo missions.”
Apollo through the astronaut’s eyes
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Looking through some Facebook updates earlier I spotted a link to this Guardian gallery with some fantastic pictures from the Apollo moon missions alongside quotes from the astronauts that took the photos. It’s part of history that’s always fascinated me so I thought I’d pass it on.
Fantastic picture
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008For a while now NASA have been twittering from the Phoenix lander on Mars – well someone on earth posts in the first person on the lander’s behalf! Earlier today MarsPhoenix posted up this fantastic picture on TwitPic of a self-shot from an Astronaut:
Those guys are always posting up great stuff, if you’re on Twitter MarsPhoenix is well worth following.
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