Steven S. Holland

Images of the earth and moon from 31 million miles away.

“A NASA spacecraft designed to look for comets turned its cameras homeward, capturing a unique view of the moonEarth as seen from 31 million miles away. The spacecraft, Deep Impact, took shots at 15-minute intervals, which were combined to make the sequence shown below. passing in front of the

The latest images show the moon and Earth in greater detail than previous ones taken by orbiting spacecraft, showing oceans and continents on our planet and craters on the moon. By studying how Earth looks from so far away, the scientists hope to sharpen their search for alien worlds that may share similar characteristics”

Nasa’s Picture of the day has an image taken using the magnification due to gravity of a galaxy to see galaxies much further on. It’s a phenomenon that has been used for a long time to see distant objects.
Really interesting to see an actual image of how this looks.

I came across a page detailing the past year in the life of the Hubble Telescope, and what’s in store for it’s future: Nasa’s news website on Hubble. It aslo talked, however, about Google Sky, which is a google earth feature that allows you to look at the sky in addition to what is on the earth. This is really neat, I am currently downloading Google earth to play with this a bit.

Has anyone used this before?