Posts Tagged space exploration now

Our Strange Sky: The Plains Milky Way of South Dakota

Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Photography, Space, USA on July 29, 2011

Notes on experiencing this video to the fullest:

1) Wait until the dark of night.
2) Find the darkest corner of your house/apartment/cave hole.
3) Set the video to fullscreen
4) Enjoy

We love what Randy Halverson sees in Our Strange Sky.

During the month of May, I shot Milky Way timelapse in central South Dakota, when I had the time, and the weather cooperated.

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This was all shot at night. If you see stars and it looks like daylight, it is actually moon light. 20+ second exposures make it look like daylight.

Official Site: http://dakotalapse.com/

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Art-Out Moment: Chinese Space Posters are Colorful, Filled with Babies

Posted by mistergroonk in Art, Marketing, Space on March 10, 2011

See more posters and learn the history behind them at Chinese Posters.net.
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Saturday Afternoon Theater: “The Open Road Still Softly Calls” 3 Videos on Space Exploration & Wonder.

Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, Science, Space on January 15, 2011

Gathered here are three videos on the wonders of space exploration. The two below are short films. The video below the jump is the 30 years of the Space Shuttle commemorative film documenting shuttle launches.

Reid Gower’s: NASA – The Frontier Is Everywhere
A man, frustrated with NASA’s poor publicity skills, creates kick-ass video of his own.

With crazy credit to Michael Marantz.

MAVEN Mission to Investigate How Sun Steals Martian Atmosphere

NASA release October 5, 2010

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), set to launch in 2013, will explore the planet’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind. Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN’s Principal Investigator discusses the mission.

Credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Smith

Freefall below the cut for the main event:

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Good Morning, ISS Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson. How Does Earth Look Today?

Posted by mistergroonk in Books, Photography, Science, Space on November 17, 2010

BoingBoing tells us:

Madeleine Robins called this picture of ISS astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson watching the spin far below, “The perfect cover for the perfect unwritten/unread SF novel I wanted to read when I was thirteen.” Exactly right.

Damn right, BoingBoing.

The above image was taken in late September from the ISS’s Cupola window bay. Dr. Dyson is a lead vocalist in the band Max Q.

There’s an astronaut band out there and no one told us?

This won’t do, Internet. Stop keeping these need-to-know bits of information a secret.

via @boingboing, Astronomy Picture of the Day

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