'Sea Of Light' Some high quality stills from the short film. Source photography by Zena Cardman on ISS is repaired, remastered & retimed. The 4k UHD video with music by Jesse Gallagher can be viewed here... youtu.be/0Izl-XNE9ZY

1/n 2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭

No new JunoCam images have appeared since July but there are many older, spectacular images I still haven't processed. I processed this one recently. This is from the PJ14_21 raw image data obtained on July 16, 2018. Approx true color/contrast and enhanced versions. North is to the upper left.

Martian moon Phobos from Mars Express' HRSC camera. A color composite of three images taken through ND, GRN, and BL filters. Largest crater with bright splotches is Stickney. North is up. Date: September 19, 2025. Credit: ESA\DLR\FU Berlin\D. Machacek.

3/3 If you’ve been following my work this won’t come as a surprise. I’ve once again updated the family portrait of the Solar System’s giant planets captured in near infrared by JWST Full size+info flic.kr/p/2oUkYSY 🧪🔭 I’ll keep updating it whenever an improved version of these giants is released🙂

#CASSINI HUYGENS #SATURN MISSION Target Name: #Saturn #Rings Start Time: 2010-05-30 Observed Distance to Ring Intercept (km): 1869511.149 instrument: Cassini #ISS Camera: Narrow Angle 7x Ir1 Grn Uv3 opus.pds-rings.seti.org/holdings/pre... NASA/JPL/j. Roger

Photorealistic animation of a Carboniferous scene from 320 million years ago featuring Lepidodendron at various stages of growth. Not AI. Created with Blender, Photoshop, & Premiere Pro. #carboniferous #lepidodendron #flora #prehistoric #artadventcalendar vimeo.com/1089774111?f...

Tried something new. I used WinJUPOS to de-rotate the #JWST #Saturn 🪐 images. Filters (F150W2, F164N) and F212N. Makes the storms and other features better visible.🔭 #astronomy Observation date: 2024-11-29

On this day back in 1995, the Galileo spacecraft performed its Jupiter orbit insertion burn. Due to problems with the tape recorder, no images were taken. However, these images showing the Great Red Spot were obtained on June 26, 1996 during the G1 orbit. The contrast and color has been exaggerated.

Moving clouds slowly reveal sea ice twisting and turning hypnotically off the east coast of Greenland.

Fresh JWST view of Uranus taken Oct 6 2025 with NIRCam. Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2rByidu 🔭🧪 Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY Proposal PI: Varun Bajaj Proposal ID: 8975 Filters: F150W2-F162M, F410M

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating) The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

1/3 You might’ve seen last week’s newly released JWST data of Planetary Nebula NGC2440, here’s my take on it 😵 Full size 4K image and more info in this thread 🧵 🔭🧪 Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger/Andrea Luck CC BY

CASSINI #SATURN MISSION Planet: #Saturn Start time: 2013-05-08 Instr.: #UVIS Activity name: AURSTARE t.me/landru79/838 NASA/JPL/j. ROGER

Another closeup of Saturn from Voyager 2 on August 21, 1981. This one shows a closer view of one of an eddy.

Planet #Uranus 🪐 and inner moons with #JWST NIRCam 🔭 #planetsci Observation from this Monday (lol moon🌕day). Filters: F150W2; F162M Date: 2025-10-06 between 02:15:43 UT and 04:46:47 UT Program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

A distant shot of Saturn's system while Cassini was still was on its way. This was taken after they had resolved the condensation residue issue on the ISSNA optics by heating it, and still almost 2 years before Saturn arrival. Magnified 2x from original pixel scale. Taken on 2002-10-21 14:43 UTC

A more distant shot of Io, moon of Jupiter, showing Loki Patera, the dark feature in the upper center, from Juno as it receded from Io on December 30th, 2023.

A few selected images of Mars processed from a new batch of data from the EXI camera aboard the Hope probe. The dates and times of the images and some details are in the ALT text.

I recently improved the color of my Voyager 1 map of Jupiter that I created in 2022. The main improvement is better synthetic green data (the original data doesn't include green). Below are small previews of the old and new version of the map. The map is available here: bjj.mmedia.is/data/jupiter...

The sun was just 10 degrees above the horizon when NASA's Perseverance rover captured this morning view of Nili Planum yesterday. The rim of Jezero crater is casting a long shadow over the rover and foreground landscape. 🔭 Full res: flic.kr/p/2rt54pJ Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

(1/4) Test renders of Jupiter using my Voyager 1 global map (first image) and a version of the map with improved color (second image). Versions with and without enhanced contrast/colors are shown. The raw source data consists of orange and violet filtered images only.

NASA released some shape models of four of Saturn's moons. These have every lump and bump; they're not simple spheres. Here's a test render I did in #Blender showing #Mimas in false color - red is high, blue low. Clearly shows how non-spherical it is! #sciart #spaceart 1/2

#Hubble 🛰️🔭 images of #Saturn from yesterday, a 🧵 From proposal 17843 (PI: Amy Simon) archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... First image with Filters F225W, F467M, F763M Observing start Time 20:24:08 to 20:28:15

Today in 1979, Pioneer 11 was speeding away from Saturn, giving humanity a perspective from beyond the planet that it had never have. However, Saturn was also close to solar conjunction, which led to it being increasingly hard to transmit data. The right hand version shows how bad the dropouts were.

Today in 1979, Pioneer 11 passed Saturn, viewing the night side of the rings, giving humanity its first encounter with the planet and its moons. It would be followed by Voyager 1 in 1980 and Voyager 2 in 1981.

OTD 1989, Voyager 2 was speeding off into space after passing by Neptune. It couldn't take motion compensated pictures during departure because it didn't have enough memory to store the commands. That's why there aren't spectacular closeups of Triton on the way out (the closeup here is underexposed)

I recently finished a Voyager 2 map of Jupiter using orange, green and violet images obtained at a range of ~10 million km. It's of higher quality than my old Voyager 2 map, even though the resolution is a bit lower. Here is a small 'preview' image showing the map. bjj.mmedia.is/data/jupiter...

The REASON Ice Penetrating Radar produced good test data when we flew by Mars! All looking good for seeing inside #Europa in a few years. www.nasa.gov/missions/eur...

A rotation movie of Jupiter created using a global map of Jupiter I recently finished. The map is created from 135 Voyager 2 images from June 28, 1979. Two rotations are shown. In rotation 1, approx true color/contrast are used. Rotation 2 has exaggerated colors/contrast. vimeo.com/1106162554?s...

Dos patatas a la vista #MARS EXPRESS TARGET = #DEIMOS #PHOBOS TIME =2025-03-15 T 18:50:05.712 >> 18:50:19.337 ORBIT = 26762 HIGH RESOLUTION STEREO CAMERA #HRSC CENTER_FILTER_WAVELENGTH = 600.0 <nm> EXPOSURE_DURATION = 33.768 <ms> psa.esa.int/psa/#/pages/... ESA/j. Roger

The delicate translucency of Saturn’s rings. Images taken by Cassini between 2006 and 2009. flic.kr/p/2qAQbba flic.kr/p/2qB25Kt flic.kr/p/2qANpJg

Animated gif of Juno/JIRAM 3.5-micron observations of Io from December 27, 2024. This gif covers roughly 45 minutes of time as Juno passed Io at a distance of 74,444 km. The eruption at West Illyrikon was so intense that it saturated the detector and caused internal reflections within JIRAM's optics

The Curiosity rover is sending back some jaw-droppingly gorgeous views from Mars right now... Well done everyone on the camera teams|! Just look at this glorious detail and lighting...! Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson

The PJ73 JunoCam images are noisy and have reduced dynamic range due to radiation that affected the camera. These are very early image versions from the PJ73_19 raw image data obtained on June 8, 2025. The color is a mess and is probably not easy to correct. The grayscale image is from red data only

The ray crater Degas on the rugged surface of Mercury, partially overlapping an older crater, Brontë. This is a view from Mariner 10's first flyby (indeed, humanity's first flyby) of the planet on March 29, 1974.

(1/2) Europa's color and contrast varies greatly depending on the viewing geometry, even when the illumination geometry doesn't change much. Here is a particularly striking example using Galileo G1 and E14 images.

POV: Orbiting Mars. 2 volcanoes. 1 dust storm and the darkness of space around you. You can browse the 170MP (!) here easyzoom.com/image/633505 Full size, download & more info here flic.kr/p/2r95M3B @esa.int Mars Express 2024-02-16 Olympus & Ascraues Mons Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck 🧪🔭

Comet 1P/Halley from the Vega-2 Spacecraft on March 9, 1986. Being close to the sun in its long orbit, the nucleus was extremely active, spewing volatiles and dust in to space.

Sharp cloud detail on Venus imaged in ultraviolet sunlight by Japan’s Akatsuki orbiter. flic.kr/p/2kiPUwz flic.kr/p/2kirBVn flic.kr/p/2kivHoS flic.kr/p/2mQWk1D

(1/3) Many Voyager color observations were done using two colors, often orange & violet. To get realistic color images, synthetic green images must be created. Usually a weighted average of orange & violet is used. Better results are possible using more complicated methods as this test image shows.

Saturnian sunset. Taken by Cassini in nIR+UV spectrum in November 2007. flic.kr/p/2jEDVAF

3D anaglyph image of asteroid Donaldjohanson. Anaglyph is made from images taken by Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) on board spacecraft Lucy on April 20, 2025. Original images and more info about Lucy's flyby of Donaldjohanson here: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Jupiter from Voyager 2 on May 29, 1979. Color composite from orange, green and violet images. Processed as part of color calibration work involving lots of experimentation, including a new way to generate synthetic green images when required. Approx true color, might be slightly too bluish though.

Whaaat Asteroid Donaldjohanson looks a lot like Toutatis! I'm working on an article for Sky & Tel now... science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

This new JWST image looks like one big spiral galaxy; but it's not! The central spherical blob is a massive galaxy closer to us, and the reddish blue wrapped around it is another spiral galaxy behind it very far away. The central blob should block the light of the spiral; we shouldn't see it at all!

Can you believe this epic image of Mars was captured in 1978? Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2qW4zyT 🔭🧪 Credit: NASA/JPL/AndreaLuck CC-BT Cloudy Pavonis mons and Noctis Labyrinthus NASA Viking Orbiter 1 1978-01-14 Filters Red, Clear, Violet Product IDs: f576a07, f576a03, f576a01

Ariel, moon of Uranus, from Voyager 2 in 1986.

🧵 Hi everyone! I have a new paper out in Planetary Science Journal discussing volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io as seen by Juno's JIRAM instrument (IR imager and spectrometer): doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/...

I would love to get better views of Neptune's moons (and not just Triton)