Surface pics from Planets, Moons, Asteroids, and Comets

[Mook]

Mercury

Venus

Moon

Mars

Titan (Saturn's moon)

from 10km

Lander Decent Video:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...ens_descent.ogg/Huygens_descent.ogg.480p.webm



Vesta (asteroid)

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

The Sun

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[bimmer4life]

Love these pictures. The sun is a badass motha.

 

[Flyn]

Shame we don't have more habitable planets in the system. I'm seeing a lot of dirt and rocks, some very hot, some very cold.

Sun pics are always hot.

Amazing to think man made inventions have made it to all these places.

 

[guspech750]

So much higher power God like amazing stuff here.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

That ain't no sunspot, that's a butthole.

Fun fact, the initial rovers that landed on Venus only lasted 23 minutes before burning up due to the extreme heat on the surface. The later rovers lasted upwards of two hours.

 

[SinisterSHO]

I knew you would make the butthole comment

 

[Flyn]

You could think of Venus as being the butthole of the system. Hot, sweaty, smelly noxious gasses. Luckily for Venus, one of the other planets already took the name.

 

[BrianG]

I didn't realize anything had landed on Venus. So awesome.

 

[MuffHugger]

I love planets. How long do you think it'll be before the average joe can casually go up into space?

 

[Euro]

Awesome photographs

 

[SleeperLS]

science!

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

I love planets. How long do you think it'll be before the average joe can casually go up into space?

I don't think it will ever be cheap. We'd need to discover a seriously high energy fuel to get cheap commercial orbital flights. And right now we don't have anything on the horizon that can provide the required power.

NASA is doing cool stuff with an Ion engine, but its not ready for use, and even then will only be useful in zero g environments, it won't get anything into orbit.

An Ion thruster might be useful for a high altitude glider though that needs long duration flights.

Ion Thruster Sets World Record | NASA


Also, I love how pictures of Mars could be the desert here on earth. Its so earth like for the terrain. Aside from its reddish hue.

 

[HeavyG]

Does space scare anyone else?

I dont know why I freeze up....it's so huge, no oxygen, no nothing...I dont know why I think "how would I survive there"? omg...I'd die !

then I take a breath and realize that theres no way in hell I would get there to began with....hahahaahahah