Rain on the Sun

After months of not updating my blog I am back.  There were technical issues that I have been unmotivated to fix until now, so after a little work I am able to post and keep everyone up to date again.  This is a video from NASA that I have wanted to share for the last few months.  It shows a spectacular solar flare that rains down molten matter on the surface of our Sun. My new favorite solar flare clip.

OVERVIEW: An Astronauts View of Earth from Space

OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective on Vimeo.

A 20 minute long documentary with some awesome HD footage of our planet from space.

Curiosity's Descent onto Mars

HD video of Curiosity descending down onto Mars and landing on the red planet surface.  The first thing you see is the heatshield, use to protect the rover from burning up on entry, dropping.  Once it lands it looks at the landscape and then uses the camera to inspect itself for any damage.

Earth from Mars

An image captured by Curiosity of Earth from the red planet.  Pretty cool.

Relating Solar Storms, Aurora Borealis and Earth's Magnetosphere

Over the next year there will be a period of increased solar flares and solar storms and that will mean an increase in the chances of seeing Aurora Borealis.  The closer you are to the poles the more likely you are too see this, but a period of solar activity in 1859 enabled people as far away as the Caribbean to see the Northern Lights.

Landing a Man on the Moon Once Again

Russia has reveled its plans to land a man on the moon within the next decade and beginning constructing a lunar base in order to studying the possibility of water and life on the Moon.  In Focus by the Atlantic has published a collection of photos, which I have posted a select few below, documenting the nearly decade long Project Gemini, which was the precursor to the first man landing on the Moon in 1969.

Tour of the Moon

This video from NASA shows and explains many of the craters on the Moon and the formation of the surface of our orbiting rock

Solar Dynamic Observatory

This video collects highlights of solar storms and flares on the surface of the sun that were recorded in the first year that NASA's SDO was in operation.  The bottom clip is the first time that a tornado on the surface of the sun has been captured on film.

Surveying the Rift

We are the Explorers

The Sprawl of Las Vegas

Las Vegas was one of the fastest growing cities in North America with population jumping over 40% in the last decade.

Curiousity's Journey to Mars

Slowmo Space Launch and the new NASA rover

This has some really spectacular shots from the last few launches of the recently retired shuttle program.



Today, November 26, NASA launched a new rover, Curiousity, to explore Mars.  The rover will land on the Red Planet sometime in August 2012 and is equiped with multiple HD cameras, which will give us our first clear images of the surface of another planet.  These images are from In Focus, as well as many others and details of Curiousity and its mission.

Time Lapse from Space

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.