Space pictures topic

1080 on this youtube copy, but much better original here.

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First Pluto-Charon Color Image from New Horizons. Isn’t there another satellite of Pluto?

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/image.php?page=1&gallery_id=2&image_id=175

Pluto has at least 3 other satellites, each much smaller than Charon: Nix, Hydra, and Kerberos.

The NASA Gemini mission (from reddit):

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Whole album can be found here.

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Sunrise on Mars:

Rhea close-up:

Our own moon (photographed by Galileo probe)

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Latest pictures of Pluto from New Horizons:

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Amazing picture! The other pictures even show the nitrogen rich atmosphere!

Hmmph!

Looks like when Discourse creates a local copy of the image it adjusts the intensity. Compare:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nh-apluto-mountains-plains-9-17-15_0.png
https://inovaestudios.blob.core.windows.net/forumsavatars/3823084921fb75762d82c55f028841a8148ba7cd283f.png

Edit:
Ok this is a known issue with an easy fix. Posted here:

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Rosetta, a picture taken from the Earth.

Thanks now I don’t have to post mine. :wink:

Saw this and startet dreaming about I:B :3

I feel that this gif ought to be in this thread.

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A cache of more than 8,400 high-resolution photographs taken by Apollo astronauts during trips to the moon is now available for viewing and download.

Article: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2015/20151002-apollo-astronaut-photos-flickr.html

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As seen on reddit (Active volcano on Io):

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There was joke picture ‘‘with religion theme’’ then suddenly appeared Milky Way

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I would appreciate it if you wouldn’t post ‘joke’ content in this thread, especially when it has to do with religion. Stick to space pictures.

Ya that.

Why doesn’t that^ count as ten?

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Another shot from Cassini that looks a lot like the current prototype:

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