Saturday, December 31, 2011

You are there....


I got some new landscapes backgrounds today for Stellarium, the planetarium program, and here's a view of the Moon and Sun as if seen from the International Space Station.


Here's another view, from the mountain top observatory on the island of Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands. 


And here we are on Mars, at the site of Opportunity, looking toward Phobos, its largest and closest moon. See what you can do with this program? 


And lastly, Earth and the Moon from Mars, assuming we had a good telescope there. Gives it a different perspective, doesn't it? I don't think we're near the center of the universe, Folks. Without enlarging this view from Mars, we'd be practically invisible, and it's not all that far away in space terms. They call it 'space' because that's what it mostly is.

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