Question What are your favourite pictures and why? (space related)

[Pyromaniac605]

Here's a few of mine.

Columbia. I like how the light shines off of Columbia, it makes it feel more epic.

Neil Armstrong after EVA 1. I love the smile on his face, he's on top of the world. (Well higher actually :lol: )

Von Braun with Saturn V's S-IC engines. Just makes you think of how people make things that make the creators seem small.

Saturn V. I like how it shows the immense size of the Saturn V, I wish I could see one upright up close.

Darren

 

[Pyromaniac605]

Nobody has anything?

Darren

 

[dougkeenan]

nice topic - give you one guess this image brings it all together for me

 

[gimp1992]

This 500 mm telephoto photo from Apollo 15 shows how small the LEM (3 miles away) appears on the moon. This photo, taken on EVA 2, 300 feet up the side of Mt. Hadley Delta, the half-mile-wide crater Pluton lies beyond the LEM.

 

[TMac3000]

I have to say photos of the Horsehead Nebula. That one just screams "deep space."

 

[astrosammy]

Earth from the Apollo 4 Command Module. It seems to be very rarely used but is an amazing picture of our planet.

HST and Moon during STS-61. Low quality but a great picture.

 

[Unstung]

As for some Apollo ones...

Aldrin stands next to the Passive Seismic Experiment Package with the Lunar Module in the background.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/As7-3-1545.jpg - Apollo 7 S-IVB
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020128.html

 

[SiberianTiger]

 

[Izack]

Very fitting. :hail:

 

[Pyromaniac605]

I instantly knew where this came from. :hail:

Darren

 

[Izack]

 

[Pyromaniac605]

:jawdrops: Is that a photo? What took it?

Darren

 

[Xyon]

I'd say Cassini took it.



Image search results

 

[Izack]

:jawdrops: Is that a photo? What took it?

Darren

Cassini took the picture on 16/09/06.
Page at JPL:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08329

It's interesting to note that the little blue dot to the left inward of the G ring is Earth.

EDIT: Xyon: Ouch. I found the page at JPL by manually browsing from 1997 to late 2006. Should have JFGI! :lol:

 

[Tycho6]

This is one I quite like. It reminds me of sitting outside in the cold with my old Dobsonian scope, watching Io transit.
I'm also a fan of photos which remind us those distant points of light are real, three-dimensional places.

 

[acesax23]

well ,
It's kinda Unique..
:tiphat:

 

[Pyromaniac605]

This is one I quite like. It reminds me of sitting outside in the cold with my old Dobsonian scope, watching Io transit.
I'm also a fan of photos which remind us those distant points of light are real, three-dimensional places.

It's an ok picture, but it shows Io and not Europa.
Guess which my favourite is. :lol:

Darren

Edit:

This one's a classic.
When I typed Moon into google images there wasn't as much Sailor Moon as I thought there would. :lol:
What a terrible show...

 

[Tycho6]

For the Europa partisans, a view from Voyager 1.



Also in the icy moon category, the fascinating Enceladus. One of the growing list of moons that really deserves its own orbiter and lander. Better yet, a manned expedition. Perhaps one day...

 

[Izack]

I'm also a fan of photos which remind us those distant points of light are real, three-dimensional places.

More people need to be reminded of this.

Sort of unrelated, but some of the finest times I've had have been in the cold on my garage roof, watching the sky. Right up there with sitting in the cold in a forest, watching birds.

 

[IgnoreThisBarrel]

I think the expedition to Enceladus should land right at that "fork in the canyon" so the astronauts could have some interesting scenery to view. It also just happens to be one of my favorite geological formations in the solar system.

I wish there were more high-res Enceladus textures in that color. *Hint hint*