...Its aim is to locate and capture the first “pale blue dot” image of another Earth in the closest star system to us. The Institute have...common in our galaxy, Project Blue would be the first to image in visible light a planet as small as our own, ...
... comet would look alongside planet Earth. According to van Dokkum the comet’s tail, shown in the new image, is nearly 100,000 miles long, which is 14 times the size of Earth. “It’s humbling to realize how small Earth...
...terrestrial observers and shadowed by Saturn’s rings. Colour imaging showed that the familiar, yellow-ochre appearance of ...ringed world. But what comes next? Saturn’s 2010 storm system imaged by Cassini. There is no shortage of ambitious ideas for ...
... of clay minerals on the rim of Endeavour Crater were made using orbital spectroscopy from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on-board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). These areas were examined up-close...
... of the most incredible outcomes of all of the exploration we do of space is how we rediscover ourselves here on Earth. The Earthrise image from the Moon was certainly one of the most powerful ‘rediscovery’ moments, because it was a view of Earth...
... the window of the Space Shuttle Challenger, the iconic image of McCandless’ white space-suited figure floating free above... trained and rehearsed. Suit and backpack The iconic image of McCandless’s white spacesuited figure floating free above ...