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July 20, 2003
Supposedly cleaning up
I told myself I'd spend some time cleaning up today, and for the most part I have. But in a pile of paper in my backpack I found a print of an essay for The Atlantic written by Michael Benson called A Space in Time. Its a nice essay reminding us not only of the wealth of information brought to us by space exploration but also the beauty of the photography.
So, of course, in addition to spending time re-reading the article I spent even more time looking through the NASA photo archives.
Sidebars to the article suggest some places to start, but I found the Catalog of Spaceborne Imaging to be a good place to start for planetary images. NASA's Solar System site also has links to pictures, but it is more focused on the individual missions that took the pictures. If you just want to browse, a good range of planetary and extra-planetary pictures can be found at the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day site.
My favorite planetary picture so far has been the Voyager 1 picture of Io and Europa with Jupiter in the background. Human experience looking at things on Earth totally fails you as you try to get a sense of scale with this picture.
Thanks for posting the links to the space pics, I *love* those!
Posted by: Chelsea | July 23, 2003 01:05 AM