On October 28, NASA’s Cassini orbiter will be making its deepest-ever dive through the ocean spray from Enceladus—passing within a mere 30 miles of the icy surface.
Source: Enceladus, Saturn's Amazing Snowball Moon - The Atlantic
Tag: moon
APOD: 2015 July 31 – The ISS and a Colorful Moon
A different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
Saturn’s Moon Dione
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
Children of the Moon – The Big Picture – The Boston Globe
Alabaster-skinned people born on a sun-scorched group of islands off Panama’s Caribbean coast are venerated as “Children of the Moon”. Albinos make up between 5 and 10 percent of the roughly 80,000 indigenous Gunas who live on the mainland of the Guna Yala region and its islands. With their sensitive skin and eyes, young Guna albinos must be shuttled to and from school, avoiding the baking heat, while they watch their friends play in the streets. International Albinism Awareness Day was June 13th.
Source: Children of the Moon - The Big Picture - The Boston Globe
APOD: 2015 June 5 – Green Flash at Moonrise
A different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
Dancing With the Moon – National Geographic Photo of the Day
The aurora borealis shares the sky with a bright moon in Iceland in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from the 2015 Traveler Photo Contest.
Source: Aurora Borealis Image, Iceland - National Geographic Photo of the Day
Long Exposure Of Moon Setting
Nice long exposure image of the moon setting: