Elderfox Studios took photographic footage taken by various Mars space rovers and compiled them into an absolutely astonishing 4K rendered video that reveals the surface of Mars. The original photos used in this short but stunning documentary were from NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS, Cornell University and ASU. Although the cameras are…
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NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Captures Never Before Seen Detail in Images of Saturn’s Rings
NASA‘s Cassini spacecraft has sent back images of Saturn’s rings that capture never before seen detail. The images show so-called “straw” and “propeller” formations in the rings and detail as small as 0.3 miles, which in astronomical terms is miniscule. Some of the structures seen in recent Cassini images have…
Beautiful NASA Poster Encouraging Travelers to Visit the Earth-Like Planets of the TRAPPIST-1 System
NASA has released a beautiful travel poster that encourages vacationers to visit the newly discovered Earth-like planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system. The planets are likely rocky and could have liquid water, but at 40 light-years from Earth it would be a considerable journey for a vacation. Some 40 light-years from…
Astronomers Discover Seven Potentially Habitable Earth-Size Exoplanets Around a Nearby Dwarf Star
NASA has announced the discovery of seven potentially habitable Earth-size exoplanets around the ultra-cool red dwarf TRAPPIST-1, the most ever discovered around a single star. Three of the planets fall within the star’s habitable zone but the other four could also have liquid water given the right conditions. Based on…
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures a Striking Image of Earth and the Moon From Mars
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a striking image of Earth and the Moon from the perspective of the red planet using its onboard High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. On October 3, 2007 when the image was taken, Earth and Mars were 88 million miles apart, meaning that each…
The RoboSimian, An Ape-Like Robot Built by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The RoboSimian is an ape-like robot developed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory that is preparing to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals in Pomona, California beginning on June 5, 2015. JPL showed off some of what the RoboSimian can do in a recent episode of its web series Crazy Engineering. In…
VolcanoBot, A Volcano-Exploring Robot Built by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Go Places Humans Cannot
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory robot VolcanoBot is being used to explore volcanoes and could help explain eruptions and other aspects of a volcano’s geology. VolcanoBot 1 has been tested in the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, and a smaller and lighter version, VolcanoBot 2, is being developed. The VolcanoBot was developed…
A Series of Travel Posters for Exoplanets Found in the Potentially Habitable ‘Goldilocks Zone’ of Their Systems
NASA has created a series of gorgeous travel posters for exoplanets discovered in the potentially habitable “Goldilocks zone” of their systems, the range of distance from a star that would allow for liquid water to be possible on the planet. The posters show highly stylized versions of what the surface of…
