Wow Can’t Believe Jupiter Is Actually Trans

HiPOD 20 Apr 2021: A Glorious Gully in Matara Crater

The largest dune gully here has had massive changes over the last six Mars years. Our goal is to obtain a fresh stereo pair and see if we can resolve the topographic changes. The crater was named after the town of Matara, Sri Lanka.

Enhanced color is less than 1 km; black and white is less than 5 km.  ID: ESP_065934_1300 date: 20 August 2020 altitude: 249 km NASA/JPL/UArizona

A vibrant false-color image Saturn, along with moons Rhea and Dione, imaged by Voyager 2 on July 21, 1981.

my favourite greetings to the universe from the Voyager spacecraft 💌

Australia vs Pluto

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Ukraine’s Pripyat River is Like a Work of Art From Space

Williamina Fleming, phaedra0846, (notebook), 1887 [Project PHaEDRA. John G. Wolbach Library, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA]

i'm not the praying sort, but i'll probably always have a soft spot for the astronaut's prayer

Earth’s Changing Ice : Meltwater lakes form on the surface of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. (via NASA)

can't stop thinking about this

“What were astronauts like when they first returned from outer space? Nurse Dee O'Hara: ‘They have something, a sort of wild look, I would say, as if they had fallen in love with a mystery up there, sort of as if they haven’t got their feet back on the ground, as if they regret having come back to us… a rage at having come back to earth. As if up there they’re not only freed from weight, from the force of gravity, but from desires, affections, passions, ambitions, from the body. Did you know that for months John [Glenn] and Wally [Schirra] and Scott [Carpenter] went around looking at the sky? You could speak to them and they didn’t answer, you could touch them on the shoulder and they didn’t notice; their only contact with the world was a dazed, absent, happy smile. They smiled at everything and everybody, and they were always tripping over things. They kept tripping over things because they never had their eyes on the ground.’”

— Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (via m-l-rio)