Showers today! With a high of 17C and a low of 17C. 93 Humidity. 14 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

iss071e522460 (Aug. 20, 2024) — The dome-shaped Brandburg Massif, near the Atlantic coast of central Namibia, containing Brandberg Mountain, the African nation’s highest peak and ancient rock paintings going back at least 2,000 years, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above. via NASA https://ift.tt/AQOvkLl

If you could fly over Mars, what might you see? The featured image shows exactly this in the form of a Mars Express vista captured over a particularly interesting region on Mars in July. The picture’s most famous feature is Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System, visible on the upper right. Another […]

Showers today! With a high of 17C and a low of 17C. 90 Humidity. 15 C currently. 16 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy. Even at some two and a half million light-years distant, this immense spiral galaxy — spanning over 200,000 light years — is visible, although as a faint, nebulous cloud in the constellation Andromeda. A bright yellow nucleus, dark winding […]

Showers today! With a high of 21C and a low of 21C. 87 Humidity. 19 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Mars has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, named for the figures in Greek mythology Fear and Panic. Detailed surface views of smaller moon Deimos are shown in both these panels. The images were taken in 2009, by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, NASA’s long-lived interplanetary internet satellite. The outermost […]

Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 28C and a low of 28C. 96 Humidity. 15 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

Tiny satellites, also known as CubeSats, are pictured after being deployed into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital deployer on the outside of the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module. via NASA https://ift.tt/yxm6s5J

Ringed ice giant Neptune lies near the center of this sharp near-infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope. The dim and distant world is the farthest planet from the Sun, about 30 times farther away than planet Earth. But in the stunning Webb view, the planet’s dark and ghostly appearance is due to atmospheric […]