Microscopics

High Skies – Sounds of Earth
Last in the series of six videos.
Time lapse images of Japan by Mockmoon http://mockmoon.sblo.jp
High Skies – Sounds of Earth is now available in Flac format for the first time from our new shop…
HIGH SKIES – SOUNDS OF EARTH
1 Au Début du Voyage
2 The Shape of Things to Come
3 Voyage en [...]

High Skies – The Earth at Night
The shimmering lights of Earth on an ordinary night, as seen from space.
Also available in 3D viewing mode.
Images by Worldwide Telescope / NASA
High Skies – Sounds of Earth is now available in Flac format for the first time from our new shop…
We’ve just completed videos for all the tracks [...]

High Skies – Voyage en Argent
3D CGI by James Blinn, NASA, 1981. Voyager flyby of Saturn.
Anyone familiar with computer graphics will be familiar with James Blinn, he was a pioneer in the early days and has the technique of Blinn Shading named after him. A technique for describing how light reflects off a surface.
High Skies [...]

A mini video of a super-massive coronal mass ejection, travelling at 900 miles per second. The Earth would be about the same size as the smallest feature you can see on the Sun’s surface, or about 1/100th the diameter of the Sun.

Images were captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, August 2012.
Music by High Skies.
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We’re pleased to tell you that two Gas and High Skies tours have been added to Worldwide Telescope. WWT is a virtual telescope that allows you to explore the universe through the lens of Hubble, Spitzer and others, without leaving your computer.
Universal Beauty
A tour of the beautiful. Music is Gas – Microscopic. You can download the [...]

NASA has just released new images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the original Apollo Moon landing sites. Some even show the astronauts tracks when carrying out their surface experiments.
 
The Lunar Landers highlighted with a shadow from the low Sun.

Apollo 14. You can just about make out the astronauts tracks in the dust.

Apollo [...]

To mark the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing, we have NASA TV, live from Space Shuttle Endeavor (STS-127).

Click to play. All the usual controls; full screen, mute, volume, pause…
It will be docking live with the International Space Station, and the crew will be moonwalking performing five spacewalks and complete construction of the Japan [...]

Our posts for today all have a space theme.
Here are a few pics of contenders for the next Space Shuttle…

NASA and Paragon are designing a new spacesuit.

Paragon has received authorization to begin work on NASA’s Constellation Space Suit System (CSSS). Paragon is beginning this work on the first major space suit redesign in over 40 years. Paragon is responsible for the design and manufacture of the suit’s life support and thermal control system. The first [...]

Here is a time-lapse animation of the ISSs progress.

 
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