Can’t. Stop. Looking. 

Top: The first color movie of Jupiter from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows what it would look like to peel the entire globe of Jupiter, stretch it out on a wall into the form of a rectangular map, and watch its atmosphere evolve with time. The brief movie clip spans 24 Jupiter rotations between Oct. 31 and Nov. 9, 2000.

Bottom: This brief movie shows counterclockwise atmospheric motion around Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. The clip was made from blue-filter images taken with the narrow-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during seven separate rotations of Jupiter between Oct. 1 and Oct. 5, 2000. 

If you found an iPad under the tree or an iTunes gift card in your stocking, make the most of it by getting over 850 images just as beautiful as these in our Cassini HD app for iPad. Or Angry Birds. That’s fun too.

Some new moons for Monday. There are more stunning images of Titan (and other moons) in the new update for our Cassini HD app for iPad which is available now. We’ve even added a whole new moon: the egg-shaped Methone recently captured by the probe for the first time. 

These are just a few of the new images we’ve added to our app Cassini HD for iPad in our new update available today. 

NASA launched the Cassini orbiter on October 15, 1997, to explore Saturn, its rings, and system of moons. Fifteen years later, it’s still thrilling the world with wonderfully impossible images from a billion miles away. Thinx is honoring this anniversary by offering its Cassini HD iPad app for half price, just $0.99. Featuring more than 840 stunning images, Cassini HD is the perfect way to see the greatest highlights of this amazing mission.

While selecting images to include in our Cassini HD app I came across some great gifs. Unfortunately, I couldn’t include them in the app, so I’ll be posting them here instead. 

jtotheizzoe:

Cassini HD - Explore Saturn Via iPad

Our very own science/art Tumblrer staceythinx has been hard at work designing the Cassini HD iPad app, available Sept. 15 in the iTunes store (that’s tomorrow!). It will be free for the first day, by the way (I’ll add the link when it goes live).

I’ve had a chance to play with the app, and it’s really something special. NASA’s Cassini mission has provided us with what I think is the greatest catalogue of planetary images from our solar system. Saturn is such a visually striking celestial body, and exploring its moons and rings via photography gives us the ability to take a digital rocket tour with just a single click.

The Cassini HD app delivers more than just pretty pictures, of course. Tap an image to find out the science behind each photo, and any of them can be shared on Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, etc. right in the app. The philosophy behind this project, and Stacey’s Tumblr, is making knowledge beautiful. Mission accomplished!

I give it a rating of 10 rings out of 10. Go get it tomorrow!

I’m absolutely delighted that jtotheizzoe of It’s Okay To Be Smart likes our app! I really hope you will too. You can try it for free today and please let us know what you think!

Today is the day: Cassini HD, our first app for iPad, is finally available in the App Store! Be sure and get it today at the special price of FREE (regularly $1.99). Most important of all, be sure and leave feedback on iTunes — we want to hear what you think. Happy discovering!

It’s almost here (unless you’re far enough east). The Cassini HD app for iPad is arriving in the iTunes app store Saturday, Sept 15 and it will be FREE for one day only. Find out more about it here.

To celebrate the upcoming release of our new Cassini HD iPad app, I will be posting my favorite images from it all week. These natural color images capture Saturn in all its soft-toned splendor.

Cassini HD will be released in the iTunes store on Saturday, Sept. 15. Take advantage of our special release offer and get it for free that first day only. 

To celebrate the upcoming release of our new Cassini HD iPad app, I will be posting my favorite images from it all week. These natural and false color images are among my favorites because they capture Titan’s unusual atmosphere so spectacularly. 

Cassini HD will be released in the iTunes store on Saturday, Sept. 15. Take advantage of our special release offer and get it for free that first day only. 

To celebrate the upcoming release of our new Cassini HD iPad app, I will be posting my favorite images from it all week. These natural color images capture Saturn’s rings with such graphic beauty and stark drama, they’re easily among my favorites.

Cassini HD will be released in the iTunes store on Saturday, Sept. 15. Take advantage of our special release offer and get it for free that first day only. 

I’m very excited to announce that we have a release date for our new app Cassini HD. It will be available in the iTunes App Store this Saturday (Sept. 15) and it will be totally FREE for the whole first day (after Saturday it will be the regular price of $1.99). 

About the app:

While handheld and mobile devices have the power to put information at our fingertips, they can also transform how we learn and interact with knowledge. Cassini HD, the first iPad app from Thinx, harnesses that power to take audiences on a voyage of discovery to the ringed planet of Saturn. The app’s intuitive design helps users to easily navigate a collection of more than 840 spectacular images returned to Earth by the Cassini orbiter while showcasing those images in a way that is both elegant and informative.

Features:

• Journey from Saturn itself, to its stunning rings and past more than 20 different moons 
• Supports both portrait and landscape orientation for optimal viewing quality. 
• Full captions expand with additional information with just a tap 
• Alphabetical menu brings you directly to any section of interest; unique navigation map allows you to scroll easily through this vast collection 
• Integration with the most popular social networks: Share your discoveries with friends on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter, or via email 
• Save your favorite images to your photo roll and use them as a wallpaper on your iPad 
• Future updates will add to this collection the latest images from Cassini as more become available.

This week is my blogiversary. August 23 of last year I put up my first posts on Tumblr not knowing what to expect. Fast forward to one year later, and I’ve met lots of new people who have made this a fun and interesting place to share and exchange all kinds of interesting art and ideas.

It’s such a great community that I wanted to give something back as a sort of anniversary gift, so I tried to come up with something appropriate. After seeing yet another spectacular photo from Cassini travel across my dashboard while thinking “I wish I could put them all in one giant gallery”, I realized that I had my plan. 

With my husband Joe, my app design partner, we got to work on what was going to be a simple ebook of the NASA Cassini Mission’s best photos. As time went on, I found the images so inspiring that the project grew, and it became a full fledged app with over 840 images, interactive menus, expandable captions and, best of all, the ability to share the images on Tumblr (and other popular sites) through a social media sharing tool.

I wanted to announce that it was available for download on my anniversary, but instead all I can do is let you know its coming VERY soon and there will be an opportunity for you to get it for free. So stay tuned and thanks for an awesome year!

You can find out more about it here. You can also join our mailing list for future announcements.

I am a big fan of the minimalist black and white images that have been coming back from NASA’s Cassini Orbiter, but I think the ultraviolet-light images are pretty cool too.