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scanzen:

Űrhajó a Szaturnusz előtt. Ma még csak elképzelés, de néhány röpke hónap vagy esztendő és az első rakéták elérik a szomszédos égitesteket, majd lépésről lépésre tovább nyomulunk előre a világtérbe. De vajon meddig juthatunk el a végtelenbe? Népszerű Technika, 1958. június.

Space ship at Saturn. Cover of “Popular Technics” a hungarian monthly scientific magazine, June 1958.

nationalgeographicdaily:

Stratus Clouds, Greenland
Photo: Bryan and Cherry Alexander

Eight hundred miles south of the North Pole, stalactite-like stratus clouds - churned by 90-mile-an-hour winds - and the light of a bruised dawn paint an apocalyptic portrait over Inglefield Bay.

cwnl:

Tethys Behind Titan

(Source: ikenbot, via itsfullofstars)

uraniaproject:

Mars_22_01_2012_1015ut-IrRGB-EMr (by Jaicoa)

Via Flickr
Mars this week (January 22nd) showing a pronounce region Auroroe Sinus (finger like) lower left and the chrise region at center and at the Polar Cap region Mare Acidolium.

(via itsfullofstars)

smithsonianmag:

The Highest Resolution Image of Earth Ever

This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012.

Photo courtesy of NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring

Ed note: Perfect for your desktop background. Click the photo for the 8000x8000 image

h/t Gizmodo

(via poptech)

Comet Morehouse at the Juvisy Observatory by Fernand Baldet and Ferdinand Quénisse, 1908

frenchtwist:

via mudwerks:

(via Airminded · Death from the skies)

“The images in this post are from Boyd Cable, ‘Death from the skies’, in John Hammerton, ed., War in the Air: Aerial Wonders of our Time (London: Amalgamated Press, n.d. [1936])…”

nationalgeographicdaily:

Moonset, California
Photo: Peter Essick

A setting moon makes a fitting backdrop for a lunarlike landscape near Donohue Pass in California’s Ansel Adams Wilderness area.