Browsing the archives for the nasa tag
We Stopped Dreaming And Settled For Surviving A culture without a common mythology can’t hold together. Break the thread and all the beads fall. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, [...]
NASA has sent a permanent orbiter to the planet Mercury. It’s name is MESSENGER. Every letter of that name means something, like it does in the Kabbalah. Make of that what you will. While zooming around Mercury, mapping the surface, and takingpictures, MESSENGER came across this guy in the image above. That spacecraft is the [...]
I love NASA’s image of the day. It makes me happy that there are little robots flying around the solar system, sending us information. Cassini sends gorgeous images of Saturn all the time, and I have posted them more than once. These little cosmic doodles will zing throughout the cosmos forever, even if we crash [...]
Did you know about NASA’s mercury probe, Youdopia? It’s called Messenger, and it’s completed a map of Mercury. From the images above, I guess Mercury is inhabited by hippies. Maybe its following Phish this summer, but… I never expected such tie dyed beauty from a planet that is straight up blasted by the Sun. This [...]
I love the moon Enceladus, Youdopia. I love it because it orbits Saturn, the prettiest planet, although Neptune is breathtaking (no thank you. I don’t want to see your Uranus) and… Enceladus may very well have life. Enceladus shoots plumes of liquid water vapor, along with hydrocarbons (organic material) from its surface. There is likely [...]
