Saturn Moon Ballet

Seasons greetings all!


In celebration, I have provided a link to a new video created by the Cassini Imaging team. This video puts together over 60 images captured by the Cassini spacecraft.  Take into account different sizes, velocities, angles of trajectories, and just how well Tchaikovsky goes with the images. 


Enjoy and I hope you have a wonderful holiday!


Ciao - Martha

Be Dazzled

Take a gander.

Oooooh.  Ahhh.

This image was made by piecing together 800,000 individual photos taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.  It equals a total of 2.5 billion pixels and captures about half of the entire Milky Way galaxy.

Like WHOA.

Ciao - Martha

The Kind of Dust You Want to Keep

This dust is coooooooooooool.  Literally.  Icey cool.


This is neat.


Geologists have been trying to figure out the origins of our planet since forEVA and every tiny step forward is pretty major.  So major, Smithsonian covers it.


This new comet dust is viewed as "starting material for our solar system, the stuff that came together to make everything we see," consisting of very high temperature forming minerals and glycine.  So in a nutshell, this comet sample hints at the building blocks of Earth and Life.   

It's a bit like magic dust.