Speaking of planets,…


11.09.09 Posted in art, geek, science by

Edit: I just found this cool little gadget on the Highrise site.  Very awesome.

NASA has been spending our tax dollars in some really interesting ways recently.  Apparently some engineer with a really good sense of design got control of the cameras on the cassini spacecraft recently with some really excellent results. Another spacecraft has been flying over mars at a pretty low orbit taking amazing shots of our red brother.  Boston.com has some great excerpts from the raw NASA shots.

Here’s one:

mars.001



2 Responses to “Speaking of planets,…”

  1. August JOhnston says:

    wow man. I love this kinda shit. that is simple bad ass

  2. Spence says:

    Yeah. Black dunes on Mars… sounds like the start of an Asimov novel…

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