A few weeks back we introduced the collaborative synth kit between littlebits and KORG. If somehow that didn’t impress you, littlebits just made the advancement from music to science by releasing their latest collaboration with NASA – appropriately calling it the Space Kit.
If it wasn’t for the hackers from the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project, we wouldn’t be looking at these photos of the moon that were brought back from 1,500 analog data tapes stowed away in someones shed since the late 60’s. They include the first high-resolution photographs ever taken from behind the lunar horizon, including the first photo of an earthrise. It’s actually a pretty long, but very interesting story and you can check the full, less lazy version via Wired.
Marketing efforts have been on point for the Sandra Bullock – George Clooney film Gravity. I don’t think much marketing was needed after grabbing seven awards from The Academy on Sunday, but a few hours before the awards NASA tweeted a beautiful set of real-life photos from outer space. The mind-boggling photos show what life is really like out in the universe, with photos of free flying missions, space walks and night shots of our beloved Earth. Utilizing the hash tag #RealGravity for their tweet, they definitely caught our attention. Check the set below.
Traveling to outer space is something that few have and will accomplish in their lifetime. Sure, if you have about $250,000 to throw around you could book your next space ship to outer space with Virgin Galactic, but do you really have that lying around? Believe it or not, you can also go as a NASA Astronaut, just like Don Pettit did when he captured these images of Earth and the stars beyond in a motion we have never seen before. Pettit sets his camera to a 30-second shutter and snaps multiple exposures for 10-15 minutes at a time. Blending all of the images together the results are beautiful photographs of slow shutter space photography.
More images after the jump.
Here is a view of the earth and stars like you have never seen it before. From the perspective of the International Space Station. The video was made by photographer Alex Rivest using publicly available content from NASA and some feel good tunes by London PM. With this video it is easy to see that there is a never ending universe out there and who knows if we will ever know what is beyond us and the rest of this universe. For now just sit back, grab a cold one and enjoy!
We thought that this would be a great way to kick off our “Photo of the Day” project. Although this is obviously more than one photo; these are so interesting that we wanted to kick it off with more than just one.
The NASA archives is a labyrinth of photographs, stills and videos so we selected our favorites from the thousands. Each day (at around the end of the workday for most, 5:00 P.M) we will bring you the “Photo of the Day”.
Expect the unexpected.
Below you will find the gallery of the Photos of the Day.
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