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.
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Google Moon
To help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landings Google has added the moon to Google Earth.
Apollo through the astronaut’s eyes
Looking 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
For 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 […]