Dan Brandon
Author's posts
Aug 09
From a Million Miles: The Moon Crossing the Face of Earth
This image shows the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera and telescope, and the Earth – one million miles away. Credits: NASA/NOAA EPIC maintains a constant view of the fully illuminated Earth as it rotates, providing scientific observations …
Aug 03
NASA – Spot The Station
Image Credit: Alexander Gerst/ESA/NASA See the International Space Station! As the third brightest object in the sky the space station is easy to see if you know when to look up. NASA’s Spot The Station service gives you a list of upcoming sighting opportunities for thousands of locations worldwide, and will let you sign …
Jul 30
Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon | NASA
Unusual arc-shaped, reddish streaks cut across the surface of Saturn’s ice-rich moon Tethys in this enhanced-color mosaic. The red streaks are narrow, curved lines on the moon’s surface, only a few miles (or kilometers) wide but several hundred miles (or kilometers) long. The red streaks are among the most unusual color features on Saturn’s moons …
