As of March 2020, our Mars Odyssey has captured these six views of the Martian moon Phobos. via wordpress https://wp.me/p4wJUi-7bq

Keep your eye on the ion tail of Comet NEOWISE. A tale of this tail is the trail of the Earth. As with all comets, the blue ion tail always points away from the Sun. But as Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rounded our Sun, its ion tail pointed in slightly different directions. This is because […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 12, 2020: Hot air balloons at the start of the first race of the 49th hot air ballon festival in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyIn August of this month the 50th Montgolfiade will take place in Münster.Wikipedia: Hot air balloon festival • Hot air balloon • Münster https://ift.tt/3aiBjZC

If humans could travel to this giant planet, we would see a world still glowing from the heat of its formation with a color reminiscent of a dark cherry blossom, a dull magenta. via wordpress https://wp.me/p4wJUi-7bg

Where is Jupiter’s ammonia? Gaseous ammonia was expected to be seen in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere by the orbiting Juno spacecraft — but in many clouds is almost absent. Recent Juno data, however, gives some clues: some high-level clouds appear to be home to an unexpected type of electrical discharge dubbed shallow lightning. Great charge separations […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 11, 2020: The TwinTowers (Fanny-Zobel-Strasse, Berlin-Treptow) as seen from the opposite side of the river Spree. https://ift.tt/2F2oyXh

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“That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.” – Corita Kent

Wikipedia article of the day is Nyuserre Ini. Check it out: https://ift.tt/1NBTZyB Summary: Nyuserre Ini was a pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, the sixth ruler of the Fifth Dynasty during the Old Kingdom period. The younger son of Neferirkare Kakai and queen Khentkaus II and the brother of the short-lived king Neferefre, Nyuserre probably lived in the […]

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