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Earth from Mars.
This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. It was taken (on March 8, 2004) by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit one hour before sunrise on the 63rd Martian day, or sol, of its mission.
(via Coudal)
04 January 2010 - New Scientist
Like Powers of Ten, except astronomically accurate. It’s not a dramatization, it’s a map; the positioning data was pulled from Hayden Planetarium’s Digital Universe Atlas, which is available for free download.
(via Kottke)
Fireplace for Children / Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter | ArchDaily
An enclosed space for fire, storytelling and playing.
Yes, please.
50 Years of Space Exploration in One Infographic - information aesthetics
You may have already experienced this infographic, which has been making the rounds on the internet, but it is absolutely wonderful.
(via fuckyeahinfo)
79 Moons From Flickr - 51 Visible
A new 20x200 edition by Penelope Umbrico to benefit the Aperture Foundation.
Suns [and Moons, shown above] From Flickr is a project I started in 2006 when, looking for “the most photographed” subject, I found 541,795 photographs of sunsets searching “sunset” on the photo-sharing web site Flickr. At the time that seemed like a lot; today there are more than 4,786,139 hits for “sunset” on Flickr. I think it’s peculiar that the sun — the quintessential life-giver, constant in our lives, symbol of enlightenment, spirituality, eternity, all things unreachable and ephemeral, omnipotent provider of optimism and vitamin D… and so ubiquitously photographed — is now subsumed to the internet — the most virtual of spaces equally infinite but within a closed digital circuit.
If this wasn’t so very-well-done, it would be like a lot of very crappy novice photoshop art. Maybe that’s what I like so much about it?
(via jenbee)
Little known fact: almost all NASA images available on this official website (excluding those of famous people) are in the public domain and can be used in any commercial or non-commercial way!
Oops: Colbert wins NASA space station name contest
WASHINGTON – NASA’s online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won.
The name “Colbert” beat out NASA’s four suggested options in the space agency’s effort to have the public help name the addition. The new room will be launched later this year.
NASA’s mistake was allowing write-ins. Colbert urged viewers of his Comedy Central show, “The Colbert Report” to write in his name. And they complied, with 230,539 votes. That clobbered Serenity, one of the NASA choices, by more than 40,000 votes. Nearly 1.2 million votes were cast by the time the contest ended Friday.
NASA reserves the right to choose an appropriate name. Agency spokesman John Yembrick said NASA will decide in April, but will give top vote-getters “the most consideration.”
