Picture Of The Day - January 3, 2019

RIP Stan Lee

Your legacy lives on in all of us.

Pictures of the day - November 28, 2018

Ringed Earth-sized moon with a thin foggy atmosphere.

High Resolution Pictures

Violet Rings

Closeup

Sky

Thin Atmosphere

Crater fog

The burning sun begins to set behind a large volcano.

Picture of the day - January 8, 2019

Earth-Like planet with red-colored vegetation.

Space Engine System ID: 8550-3145-7-381564-296 3 to visit the planet in space engine.

Staying on Tumblr for now.

I just want to let all my followers know I am staying on Tumblr for now. I appreciate everyone who follows my space engine tumblr and rabbit and shark tumblr.

I am going to however check into pillowfort since i am hearing some good things about it, and might also keep a space engine blog on there as well if I like it.

If the autoflagging gets too bad, however; I might decide to leave tumblr. So that is a wait and see game. But for the foreseeable future I am staying here.

Evening of the Cosmos. Widescreen Wallpapers 1440 x 900.

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Saturn’s equinox in 2009 taken by Cassini spacecraft

Credit: NASA/JPL

Oculus System - Post 3 (Cratered Wasteland)

The system’s third planet is a nearly airless Mars-sized world, heavily cratered world. The planet orbits 1.19 AU from the sun, has a mass of just 8.6% that of Earth and roughly half of Earth’s diameter. A tenuous carbon dioxide atmosphere clings to the surface with a surface press of just 1/100,000th that of Earth. Surface temperatures can reach the boiling point of water during the day, and fall nearly -300 °F at night.

High Resolution Pics

Picture 1 - Mercury-like planet

Picture 2 - Two small satellites

Picture 3 - A view from a moon

Picture 4 - Setting Sun.

Picture 5 - Broken Crater

Picture 6 - From just 10 km above the surface.

Picture 7 - The Surface

Pictures of the day - December 5, 2018

I apologize for my lack pictures yesterday.

Insight B System - Fourth Planet - Insight B-V

The fifth planet orbiting Insight B is a terrestrial-like planet roughly one quarter the mass of earth (0.27 Earth Masses) and 80% of Earth’s radius (5,093.84 km). It is predominately rocky world with a significant water content in its mantle, surrounded by a thin Carbon Dioxide atmosphere.

The surface is cold with an average temperature of -159 F, and an atmospheric pressure of 0.11 atmospheres. A single small spherical satellite orbits the planet. One day lasts approximately 23 hours 38 mins. Insight B-V orbits its sun at an average distance of 0.97 AU, completing an orbit once every 1.163 Earth Years. The planet is notable for having a retrograde rotation, orbiting almost on its side with an axial tilt of 104°. Considering the planet orbits between two gas giants, the extreme tilt is to be expected.

High Resolution Pictures

Insight B-V

Small Moon

Closeup

Day-time sky

Sunset

The Core of the Milky-way relative to the apparent size of the moon from Earth

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