Picture Of The Day - December 3, 2018

Battered Desert

Picture of the day - November 5, 2018

A cratered desert world with a thin carbon dioxide atmosphere. Both heavily cratered combined with extensive surface modification from volcanism and other forms of geological activity. Evidence of a tectonic fault-line is present in the above image.

Earth-Like World

Picture of the Day 2 - October 16, 2018

Here I come across the most Earth-like planet to date. The planet is covered in green vegetation, blue oceans and ice caps at the poles. This planet is located near the galactic core; therefore, the sky is full of bright stars, even more so than globular clusters.

Starry Night

Picture of the Day - October 16, 2018

The sands of a desert world with the sky full of bright stars. This planet orbits a star located within a globular cluster; therefore, many bright stars punctuate the night sky. The bright star near the lower left is the planet’s sun, which is barely discernible from other stars in the sky,

Picture of the day - January 3, 2019

Desert-like moon orbiting a large gas giant. This is the same world as the skylines from the previous post.

Crowded Worlds

Picture of the Day - October 15, 2018

Alien moon and its parent gas giant, looking towards the sun. This system is located within one of the densely packed globular clusters orbiting Triangulum’s center.

Image of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2007

Credit: NASA processed by Kevin M. Gill

Pictures of the day - January 1, 2019

A set of skylines from a large moon of a gas giant.

Space Engine System ID: RS 5581-7-7-1842438-367 A5.1 to visit the moon in Space Engine

Dunes on Mars captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

Cold Green World

Picture of the day 2 - November 10, 2018

A cold ice-giant and one it’s moons passing in front of the disk of the Milky Way.

Purple Skies

Picture of the Day - November 4, 2018

The surface of a large moon orbiting a gas giant that has an unusual purple-tinted atmosphere. The moon has diatomic sulfur in the upper atmosphere producing the purple hue.