A dust storm in Olympia Planum's north polar dune fields was triggered by a late Martian summer cold front. As the northern polar cap shrinks fast, it releases cold air that sometimes moves south, like on Earth. These cold fronts strengthen in late summer and early fall due to temperature differences. Occasionally, they cause big dust storms covering large areas or the whole planet. A similar event happened a month later, leading to a global dust storm lasting most of 2018. The image, taken on April 3, 2018, by the Mars Express HRSC camera during orbit, shows natural colors. [ see full image by Aster Cowart ]
Goodbye Ingenuity
Mission completed. Ingenuity is left alone on Mars after damage to one of its blades renders it inoperable..
Apollo Lunar Rover Video Corrected Speed and Stabilized
It is remarkable the difference watching this version where the time is corrected and camera stabilized.. The film restorer behind DutchSteamMachine used AI to stabilize shaky footage and generate new frames in NASA moon landing films; increasing the frame rate, smoothed the motion and made it look more like high-definition video. See more of their Apollo clips here.
Morning and Night on Mars
Yeah. Um… Wow. Nice Job NASA. I’ll just copy/paste how The Planetary Society explained it:
“NASA's Curiosity team made this artistic interpretation of the rover's view from high up Mt. Sharp by combining pictures taken at different times of day and adding colors to bring out the contrast. The first set of images was taken at 8:30 a.m local Mars time on Nov. 16, and the second set at 4:10 p.m. The morning light is highlighted in blue, while the afternoon is orange.”
We don’t post enough Mars Scenic Views
I mean… we don’t post enough in general.
Incredibly Realistic Render of Venera on Venus
Anyone interested in space exploration has to see this render of Venera on the surface of Venus. Everything about it looks real. A true work of art by Mattias Malmer.
Pretty Cool for a Stationery Lander
Martian weather and drifting clouds as seen from the InSight lander.
Mars Panorama from Curiosity
This might be the prettiest Mars pan yet.