MetaFilter posts tagged with space and photos

Photos of Martian landscapes

Frankieist — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:10:19 -0800

The frequently excellent photo-blog The Big Picture at the Boston Globe has posted a collection of stunning and, well, alien-looking photos of the martian landscape.

Galileo would be so proud.

Lutoslawski — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:29:07 -0800

Earlier today, NASA released the first photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope since it was refurbished last May - and the results are absolutely stunning.

Please Prepare For Landing

msalt — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:33:36 -0800

1,512 high-resolution images of Mars from the viewpoint of an airplane passenger. Previous photos: 1 2 3

Space Twits

lipsum — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:02:19 -0800

A space shuttle is fired to sky. People from all around the place gets a camera and shoots it. They publish the photos on Twitter. Result: Awesomeness.

Mother Nature is an abstract artist

CunningLinguist — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:48:50 -0800

30 Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth "From 400 miles away, the earth transforms into abstract art. The global landscape is impressionist, cubist and pointillist." Nice NASA images from 2000, downloadable as wallpaper.

For Arthur

CunningLinguist — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:16:35 -0800

A handful of pretty great spacewalk pix from last summer's Endeavour mission.

Man versus nature

klangklangston — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:54:20 -0800

Domesticated by photographer Amy Stein explores the tension between settled and wild spaces.

Stranded is another collection of work dealing with the expectations of public and private space.

More self-explanatory: Women and Guns and Halloween in Harlem. She also has a fine blog.

Hoop Around the Moon

brownpau — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:22:46 -0800

A hoop, to draw the Earth's shadow: illustrating yesterday's partial lunar eclipse with a hoop and some creative camera positioning. Start here and work your way towards the painter. Via Spaceweather. More photos of the eclipse on Flickr.

Prepare for the home-made invasion!

Robot Johnny — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:23:49 -0800

Robots, rockets, and rayguns, oh my!

March 2006 Solar Eclipse Photos

brownpau — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:26:06 -0800

There was a lovely total solar eclipse over parts of Africa, Europe, and Asia yesterday. See the photo galleries from Spaceweather, BBC, various Flickr users, and the International Space Station.

Cheezy music included free!

fungible — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:12:26 -0800

Deep Space and The Good Earth: pretty picture shows. (flash)

I can see my house from here

jonson — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:55:51 -0800

Hi-res satellite photos of Earth Four pages worth, desktop wallpaper sized.

BBC News - In Pictures

Mwongozi — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:30:36 -0800

BBC News' wonderful In Pictures section, including Hiroshima: Now and Then, Space Shuttle Discovery in orbit, and readers' photos of Battersea Power Station.

Trophy Boys

sparky — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:12:57 -0800

It's kind of weird how people in East Texas seem to have to "pose" with the debris, like it's a dead deer or a fishing trophy...