Space Imaging
Space Imaging
Views on alien worlds
Have you ever looked at a spacecraft image of another world and asked, "what would that look like through my own eyes?"
Have you ever wondered how the ones and zeroes transmitted by spacecraft get turned into views of alien landscapes?
Did you know that nearly every last bit of data from every solar system explorer belongs to the public, and that most of it is available online for anybody to view?
To scientists, images are data, measurements of the properties of the surfaces and atmospheres of solar system bodies. To most of the public, the images are pretty pictures returned from interplanetary voyages. But to space enthusiasts, the images are a treasure trove to be sorted through, studied, processed, and shared.
Latest Pretty Pictures from Across the Solar System
Methone, an egg in Saturn orbit?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/05/21 02:58 CDT | 3 comments
Cassini obtained its first high-resolution images of Methone on May 20, 2012. Methone is one of the smallest regular moons of Saturn, having a diameter of only about 3 kilometers. It was the first moon that Cassini discovered, very early in Cassini's mission at Saturn, in 2004.
A stunning view of Mars from Argyre to Thaumasia
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/05/18 06:33 CDT | 0 comments
Image magician Daniel Machacek has done it again, producing a jaw-dropping view of Mars from Viking Orbiter 1, featuring a frosty Argyre basin and stretching across to a series of faults called Thaumasia Fossae.
Pretty Pictures and How to Make Them
A thriving community of amateur space image processors produces spectacular vistas of alien worlds from the science and navigation data returned to Earth by robotic missions.
Finding and Using Space Image Data
Where space image data is stored, what format it's in, and how to handle it.
Space Image Processing Tutorials
Classes and explainers on how to make pretty pictures from space image data
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