August 2011
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In Passing: Dione (foreground) and Titan (background), photographed by Cassini, 10th April 2010.
Animation by yrs truly.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI.
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@SuicideJazz:
Time for a new #UnsolicitedScreenplay treatment. This time: The opening minutes of the next installment in the Alien series. #AlienV
Fade in: A field of stars. They do not twinkle, because we are in space, but they ripple slightly, from tape stretch. #AlienV
Cut to: Another starfield, but now a fraction of the globe of a planet invades the screen from the right, with glacial...
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No Analogy: Seven images taken by LCROSS lunar mission, 22nd June 2009.
These images were taken the day before LCROSS’ first swingby of the moon. Your guess is as good as mine.
Image credit: NASA.
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GARBLED: Eight images photographed by Galileo space probe, nominally of the moon Io, 10th November 1999.
A glitchy image for a glitchy day.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/UoA.
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