Every image from NASA’s Curiosity Rover is being published online, so anyone can have a look at less ‘glamorous’ pictures of Mars. Most of the images appear in black and white, with color information encoded within them. This one looks like a lovely vintage postcard. Below you can check the same picture in color, as …Continue Reading
It’s been 67 years since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, which killed between 60,000 and 80,000 people, according to the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. The bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945, just three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This picture was taken 6 weeks after the city was destroyed. Photo: Cpl. Lynn …Continue Reading
This work by Stefano De Rosa is the result of combining seven pictures taken from Turin on a foggy day. This is what we can see in the picture, according to De Rosa himself: On the left side of the planet (at 9.30 hour) lies the Monte Viso that with its 3,841 meters is the …Continue Reading
NASA’s Aqua satellite has captured this image of an iceberg breaking off Petermann glacier, in Greenland. The iceberg is 46 square miles (119 square kilometres), which is about twice the size of Manhattan. Two years ago, the glacier already lost an iceberg of 100 square miles (260 square kilometres). Photo: NASA
The fifth moon is the one designated as P5 in the picture. NASA’s astronomers found it using the Hubble Space Telescope. According to NASA’s website, ‘the moon is estimated to be irregular in shape and 6 to 15 miles across. It is in a 58,000-mile-diameter circular orbit around Pluto that is assumed to be co-planar …Continue Reading
