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ashling

(25,771 posts) Sun Dec 10, 2017, 05:26 PM Dec 2017

Satelite images

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Legendary Mount Kilamanjaro’s peaks are seen here from an unusual, top-down point of view. NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen

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The Badwater Basin in California’s Death Valley has striking resemblances to the landscape of the Red Planet. NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon

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The historic launchpads at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, where the Apollo 11 mission took off. NASA image by Robert Simmon

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Every spring and summer, some of Greenland’s glaciers melt. Last year, that melt arrived exceptionally early, as shown here in the blue melt ponds. NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen

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Satelite images (Original Post) ashling Dec 2017 OP

Love looking at this kind of thing kacekwl Dec 2017 #1

I do too. shraby Dec 2017 #2

Love them all. longship Dec 2017 #3

kacekwl

(7,017 posts)

1. Love looking at this kind of thing

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Sun Dec 10, 2017, 05:43 PM

Dec 2017

shraby

(21,946 posts)

2. I do too.

Reply to kacekwl (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 10, 2017, 07:26 PM

Dec 2017

longship

(40,416 posts)

3. Love them all.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Dec 13, 2017, 04:37 AM

Dec 2017

Especially love Pad 39a

Apollo fucking 11!

The damned Saturn V was fucking 36 stories tall, almost all of it fuel, the size of a large office building. That's what it takes to launch humans outside of Earth orbit, like to the Moon. Or Mars.

A wonderful accomplishment. Why didn't we have Moon Base Alpha some 30 years later?

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