Taken by astronauts Eugene “Gene” Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt on their way to the moon on December 7th, 1972, The Blue Marble depicts earth as viewed from some 23,000 miles away, and just celebrated its 50th birthday yesterday. What a photo! And they captured it from just the
Note: Not the whole graphic, click HERE to see the whole thing, or scroll to the bottom. This is a graphic created by VisualCapitalist depicting where all the world’s 8-billion people live, divided into the six major continents where people and not just penguins actually live (sorry, Antarctica). I learned
Note: If you search for NASA DART on Google you get an Easter Egg. NASA successfully smacked an asteroid with a spacecraft traveling at 14,000 MPH in an attempt to alter its trajectory in a first-ever test of planetary defense, should an asteroid ever be discovered that’s on a collision
This is a video showing the movement of the Taipei 101’s tuned mass damper during the recent 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the country. The tuned mass damper is a massive 16-foot, 660-metric ton sphere suspended between the 88th and 92nd floors of the building that swings to counteract any movement
This is an absolutely magnificent 4K video of earthrise as seen from the moon, created by Youtube user Seán Doran using images captured by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kaguya Orbiter. It features several different angles too. What a trip — Earth looks so small. If you squint though you
These are three videos (United States, Europe, Asia) from Business Insider detailing what earth’s coastlines will look like if all the world’s ice melted, resulting in a 200-foot rise in sea level. WATER WORLD — great movie. Of course we don’t actually have to worry about all the earth’s ice
This is an animation created using several real satellite images captured by the DSCOVR spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and telescope as the moon transitions earth. The images were taken at a distance of approximately 1,000,000 miles from the planet and feature a glimpse of the far side (aka
Almost ten years after scientists first noticed the cracks growing, the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica has calved, leading to the formation of a 1,270-square kilometer (~490 square mile) iceberg roughly 150 meters thick. Obviously, I plan on towing the iceberg to California where I’ll secure the record for world’s