Age Of Destruction

$diamonds coming down: Saturn and stars, photographed by Cassini, 26th June 2010. Pappubahry has interpreted this kind of image as the stars emerging from behind Saturn (top left section of the image). Here, successive images in a sequence are superimposed, showing each star as a trail. Where a star emerges from behind Saturn (particularly at far left and far right), note how the light is at first dimmed and refracted by Saturn’s atmosphere. Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI. Animation: AgeOfDestruction.$

diamonds coming down: Saturn and stars, photographed by Cassini, 26th June 2010.

Pappubahry has interpreted this kind of image as the stars emerging from behind Saturn (top left section of the image). Here, successive images in a sequence are superimposed, showing each star as a trail. Where a star emerges from behind Saturn (particularly at far left and far right), note how the light is at first dimmed and refracted by Saturn’s atmosphere.

Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI. Animation: AgeOfDestruction.

glare: Rings of Uranus, photographed by Voyager 2, 23rd January 1986.

Image credit: NASA/JPL.

vhs: Surface of Mars, photographed by Mars Express, 9th September 2005.

Northwest Daedalia Planum at 5°S 220°E. Presumably named after Daedalus, the great inventor of Greek myth; there is also a crater named for him the Moon.

Image credit: ESA.

oath: Rhea, photographed by Cassini, 29th August 2008.

Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI.

what angel wakes me: Titania, moon of Uranus, photographed by Voyager 2, 24th January 1986.

In green light.

Image credit: NASA/JPL.

yarra: Surface of Mercury, photographed by MESSENGER, 12th June & 6th December 2011 & 31st May 2012.

Grainger Crater, at 43°S 255°W (Percy Aldridge Grainger, composer, 1882-1961). In this image, south is up.

Image credit: NASA/APL/CIW. Composite: AgeOfDestruction.

tail of the dragon: Surface of Mars, photographed by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, 9th January 2007.

“South pole seasonal monitoring” in the south Argyre Basin at 54°S 318°E. Taken on Ls 163.9°, near the end of southern winter.

Image credit: NASA/JPL/UoA.

jewel: Janus, Titan, and Saturn’s rings, photographed by Cassini, 21st March 2006.

Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI. Animation: AgeOfDestruction.

undead: Surface of Mars, photographed by Mars Express, 20th October 2005.

Inside Gusev Crater. Detail of a larger image [h2271_0000]. See also: unearthed.

Image credit: ESA.

grooves: Surface of Vesta, photographed by DAWN, 12th August 2011.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA.