Atlantis Over the Bahamas (NASA, International Space Station, 07/10/11) (by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center)
man this is an amazing shot, imagine floating over the bahamas like that. so awesome.
(via scinerds)
Earthly Atmosphere
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took a picture on July 31, 2011 showing the layers of the Earth’s atmosphere. The orange-red troposphere lies closest to Earth’s surface. A brown transitional layer marks the upper edge of the troposphere, the tropopause.
A milky white and gray layer rests above that, likely part of the stratosphere possibly containing some noctilucent clouds. The upper atmosphere composed of the mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere fades from blue to the blackness of space.— Tom Chao
Credit: ISS Crew Earth Observations Experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory/Johnson Space Center
(via scinerds)
cwnl:
Piece Of The Galaxy In Your Hands
That’s a fukang awesome meteorite!
Photo of a man holding a rare meteorite known as the Fukang Pallasite with sun rays passing through its crystals.
‘The Fukang meteorite was found in the mountains near Fukang, China in 2000. Pallasites are a type of stony–iron meteorite with beautiful olivine crystals.’
(via scinerds)
Backdropped by a Colorful Earth
STS-116 Mission Specialists Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. (left) and Christer Fuglesang participate in the first of the mission’s three planned sessions of extravehicular activity as construction resumes on the International Space Station.
Image credit: NASA
cwnl:
This is a short video of Astronauts falling down on the moon
Credit: NASA
EBAY EBAY EBAY EBAY
JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Schmidt Telescope Dome and the Milky Way
By Emil Ivanov