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Solar System Artwork
Artist Licoti created a huge (30,000 pixels long) representation of the solar system, including each planet’s major satellites. It’s gorgeous. The full GNU-licensed image is available at Wikimedia, and he’s also posted a video “tour” of the image on YouTube: (via Forgetomori)
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Sci-Fi Air Show
Bill George is a Visual Effects Supervisor who works at Industrial Light and Magic, and is a huge fan of the prop spaceships used in SF movies and TV. He’s put together the Sci-Fi Air Show, featuring an Eagle from Space: 1999, a Colonial Viper from the original Battlestar Galactica, and several others. I am…
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Moonbase Alpha
NASA has developed a commercial-quality video game called Moonbase Alpha, which requires players to get a lunar base’s life support back online running before everyone suffocates. The game imagines a base in the year 2020; a meteor strike disables its life-support systems, and one or more players must get it running in 25 minutes. The…
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Fifty Years of Space Exploration
This extremely cool infographic is part of one of National Geographic’s Map of the Day, where it’s zoomable and scrollable. It’s also been liberated from its Flash-based bondage here. (via Dark Roasted Blend)
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Neat Retro Space Colony Print
BoingBoing has a reasonably new marketing venture, the BoingBoing Bazaar, where makers and other artists peddle interesting oddities. Illustrator Chris Reccardi has a new limited-edition print called 2464 Dream which is like a cross-section of Hugo Gernsback’s brain. It’s lovely, and actually reasonably affordable. Limited to 250, at $65 each. Pretty!
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They’re Probably Not Parasitic Slug-Things
There’s new evidence of consumption of hydrogen that may suggest life on Titan.
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Take a Walk on the Moon, Virtually
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has taken lots of new extremely high-resolution pictures of the moon, and they’re crowdsourcing their analysis. The public is invited to visit the Moon Zoo site to view and interpret the new images. “We need Web users around the world to help us interpret these stunning new images of the…
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Send Fan Letters to “Martian” Crewmen
Over at BoingBoing, Maggie Koerth-Baker makes an excellent point: The six people who are going to spend 520 days in a mocked-up Martian spacecraft are getting kind of a bum deal. You get all of the inter-personal stress, all of the isolation from family and friends, all of the crappy food, all of the monotony…
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Time Sink du Jour
Clear your schedule and head over to NASA’s Eyes on the Earth (plugin installation may be required). It’s a dashboard that displays the positions of NASA’s Earth-observing satellites and describes what they’re doing.
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Four Girls, One Orbit
A rather niche record was set yesterday when the shuttle launched: The most women in orbit at the same time. Three of the seven astronauts on Discovery are women, and there’s a woman on the International Space Station. The four are scheduled to rendezvous on Wednesday and will form “the largest gathering of women in…