Illustrations by Budi Satria Kwan on Society6

These fun rocket salt & pepper shakers by Pacific Trading are now available in my Thinx Gifts store.

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. 

Recommended:  Wired’s The Solar System’s Most Spectacular Geology Revealed by 50 Years of Robotic Exploration

Visit Fast Co. for 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions from NASA’s archives.

Selfies in space

Chinese Space Children Posters collected by Retronaut. Click on the images to see their translations.

These framed NASA photos and illustrations are available from 20x200.

These are some of the stunning space photos assembled by Michael Benson for his gorgeous coffee table book Planetfall: New Solar System Visions.

About the book:

Thanks to the photographic output of a small squadron of interplanetary spacecraft, we have awakened to the beauty and splendor of the solar system. Since Michael Benson’s masterful book Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes, new, more powerful cameras in probes with greatly improved maneuverability have traversed the wheeling satellites of Jupiter; roamed the boulder-strewn red deserts of Mars; studied Saturn’s immaculate rings; and shown us our own ravishing Earth, a blue-white orb with a disturbingly thin atmosphere, as it plunges deeper into ecological crisis. These new images are the subject of Benson’s Planetfall, a truly revelatory book that uses its large page size to reproduce the greatest achievements in contemporary planetary photography as never before.

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. 

This is:

a) the crew for the first manned NASA Apollo mission practicing water egress procedures with a full size replica of their spacecraft

b) the most awesome pool party ever

c) all of the above

Answer: C 

Alienation by Graziano Panfili 

Panfili on his work:

How many times we dreamed to change our life, city, job… flying away and being elsewhere! This series of portraits and interviews have been made to people that have big dreams and…a small rocket parked in their backyard.

The concept on which is based my work “Alien-ation”, is resumed in these few words:

“…everyone has his small rocket, propelled in the blue of the outer space with fragments of himself inside…”

Photographer Robbie Shone captured these amazing images of explorers of the Gouffre Berger limestone cave in south-eastern France, one of the deepest caves in the world. You can see more of his remarkable images in this Telegraph gallery.

There are no places too dark or damp for photographer Robbie Shone 

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.