Galileo’s watercolours of the various moon phases from 1609. Note how the terminator between the light and dark sides is not smooth – thus showing that the moon’s surface is also not smooth.
Moon Phases by Galileo Galilei
Tag: Space
ISS in Real Time
The ISS in Real Time is a fully interactive timeline of the ISS’s operation and is more than a little cool. They’ve managed to dig out all sorts of old footage and photos, crew manifests and daily schedules, and have put it all together in a pretty but usable interface. The flightpath widget is also a nice way of showing where the station was at any particular time.
Inside the Globus INK: A Mechanical Navigation Computer for Soviet Spaceflight
Righto.com has a rather delightful introduction to and teardown of a Globus INK – a Soviet-era mechanical navigation aid for spaceflight.
NVIDIA Verses A Conspiracy Theory
Sadly lost to the mists of time the Wayback Machine, here’s NVIDIA’s recreation of the Apollo 11 moonwalk – complete with accurate, conspiracy-busting lighting!
A Breakdown of the SpaceX Superheavy Landing from Yesterday.
A nice little breakdown of yesterday’s SpaceX Superheavy booster capture. The whole thing is tremendously ‘Thunderbirds’…
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Concept Art / NASA (1973)
A lovely spot of concept art from what became July 1975’s Apollo–Soyuz mission.
Via NASA.
Perseus Galaxy / NASA
The deeply haunting sounds of the Perseus Galaxy‘s pressure waves, pitch shifted from 57 octaves below middle C. Via the NASA News Room.
Phobos transiting the Sun as seen from the Martian Surface.
Presented in Supermarionation!
This brightened up my morning somewhat: Retro-futurist fun presented in Supermarionation!
Stirring the Cryogenic Tanks
A nice little documentary about the Apollo 13 mission produced by NASA.