Bye Bye Spirit.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110530.html

This is the last pic front the Mars rover, Spirit.

Farewell Spirit, you did well. 

I want to see mining robots. I feel it's the only way we'll see manned missions to the Moon and Mars.

What a shot of the shuttle and the ISS.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110608.html

With an explanation of how the shot was taken.

Right click and 'save target as' for hi res shot. (6048 x 4032)

Now that's a very cool image!

I would post a link to one of my favorite APOD images, but I'm still on probation.  

[edit]Oh, wait! Maybe I can now! http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110511.html YAY!!!

I am fairly selective of what I post here. All are good, some more sciencey, some more good pics.

I recommend checking out APOD every day.

Some recent links...


The Great Carina Nebula.
Eclipsed Moon in the Milky Way.
Lightning Eclipse from the Planet of the Goats.

I've made a Google Gadget for my home page that shows a thumb of the current APOD image, along with the description for the page. APOD has been on my "MUST visit" list for a number of years now.

There have been some good pics in APOD recently inc. the one I made the latest wallpaper from.

This is todays (31st Aug) and is a roll cloud. I have seen this before over Brighton but no where near this big.

Made me go wow. Link here. This one is in Wisconsin.

Wow indeed, scary too 

Wish I had seen that in real life, amazing 

Cool aurora pic in APOD today.

Click the image for hi res version. I will prob wallpaper this pic soon.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111028.html

Found this cool time lapse video taken from the ISS on APOD.

Video is on Vimeo so here's the HD link...

Thanks, that was great 

Looks so nice from up there.

I agree with Freddy. Great stuff, Snowy! Thank you!

I tried to identify the places the ISS was passing over by the patterns of the city lights, but I was only able to positively identify Egypt in a couple of scenes. Anyone recognize any other places?

Enjoyed that, thanks Snowy, pretty sure I saw Italy around 02:10.

If I knew what the "real time" indexes were for the video (and the playback speed), I could write a script in Celestia to mimic the view, and then run the script slower, to pick out more geography.

(actually, that sounds like a neat sort of challenge. Hmmm...)

I'm sure your probably right Dave, what ever you just said.