These images of Earth were reconstructed from photos taken by three smartphones in orbit, or “PhoneSats.” The trio of PhoneSats launched on April 21, 2013, aboard the Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility and ended a successful mission on April 27. The ultimate goal of the PhoneSat mission was to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics for a satellite in space. (via NASA - Smartphone Photos From Orbit)
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These images of Earth were reconstructed from photos taken by three smartphones in orbit, or “PhoneSats.” The trio of PhoneSats launched on April 21, 2013, aboard the Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility and ended a successful mission on April 27. The ultimate goal of the PhoneSat mission was to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics for a satellite in space. (via NASA - Smartphone Photos From Orbit)

Source: nasa.gov

wired: thedailyfeed: thedailywhat: 360-Degree Mars Panorama of the Day: Now we can explore the Red Planet in high-res, thanks to a new interactive panorama of Mars stitched together from shots taken at the Curiosity rover’s landing site. For the mohawk guy in us all. [collider] You really need to see this.  We can’t stop clicking!
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wired:

thedailyfeed:

thedailywhat:

360-Degree Mars Panorama of the Day: Now we can explore the Red Planet in high-res, thanks to a new interactive panorama of Mars stitched together from shots taken at the Curiosity rover’s landing site.

For the mohawk guy in us all.

[collider]

You really need to see this. 

We can’t stop clicking!

Source: thedailywhat

NASA’s Curiosity rover has landed on Mars! Its descent-stage retrorockets fired, guiding it to the surface. Nylon cords lowered the rover to the ground in the “sky crane” maneuver. When the spacecraft sensed touchdown, the connecting cords were severed, and the descent stage flew out of the way. The time of day at the landing site is mid-afternoon — about 3 p.m. local Mars time at Gale Crater. (via NASA - Mars Science Laboratory, the Next Mars Rover)
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has landed on Mars! Its descent-stage retrorockets fired, guiding it to the surface. Nylon cords lowered the rover to the ground in the “sky crane” maneuver. When the spacecraft sensed touchdown, the connecting cords were severed, and the descent stage flew out of the way. The time of day at the landing site is mid-afternoon — about 3 p.m. local Mars time at Gale Crater. (via NASA - Mars Science Laboratory, the Next Mars Rover)

Source: nasa.gov

minusmanhattan:

This time-lapse video of Earth from the International Space Station is the best time-lapse I’ve ever seen.

Full screen and watch it now, it’s absolutely breathtaking. 

Images courtesy: Image Science & Analysis Laboratory,NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. This version put together by Knate Myers.