The MOST AMAZING Media From SPACE

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Space is spectacular! But many

of us have no idea some of the

incredible photos, videos, and

sounds that have been captured

of space. So here is what I consider

to be the most amazing real media

of space.

On July 19, 2013, NASA's Cassini

spacecraft dipped into the shadow

of Saturn and captured one of

the most amazing photographs ever;

The Day The Earth Smiled. Since

the Sun is eclipsed, you can easily

see Saturn's rings, a few of its

moons, Mars, Venus, and Earth.

The image gets its name because

it was the first time that people

on Earth knew in advance that

they were going to be photographed

from interplanetary distances.

On this day, over 20,000 people

waved at Saturn from Earth.

Also related to Saturn is Saturn's

hexagon storm. Seeing such a symmetrical

storm in nature is fascinating!

We have actually been able to

recreate this effect in labs,

so it's no longer as mysterious

as it once was. But it's still

just as amazing!

Although poor quality, the photos

of the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy

9 colliding with Jupiter are spectacular.

Not only was this the first time

humans witnessed a collision between

two significant Solar System bodies,

but the result of the 21 collisions

left scars on the planet for months.

The most powerful of the 21 collisions

was from fragment G. The collision

released energy equivalent to

about 6 million megatons of TNT,

about the energy of 400 million

atomic bombs!

Perhaps one of the most iconic

and well known images in our list

is the famous Earthrise photo.

The photo was captured by Apollo

astronaut William Anders on December

24, 1968. He later stated, "We

set out to explore the moon and

instead discovered the Earth."

While not the best quality video

ever, the first flight of Ingenuity

certainly deserves a place in

this list! This was the first

powered flight on another planet.

Not only was this event amazing,

but so were the thousands of

aerial photos Ingenuity took of

the Martian surface during its

lifetime.

Another low resolution but amazing

thing from another planet is this

audio and these photos of the

surface of Venus. Captured during

the Russian Venera missions, this

audio is the real sound of Venus.

Real audio from a planet with

an atmosphere so extreme that

the lander was destroyed within

an hour.

This panorama from Venera 9

is composed of the first images

ever taken from the surface of

another planet.

To this day, the Russian Venera

and Vega landers are the only

landers to successfully land on

Venus, the last of them being

in 1984.

Earth also produces interesting

noises, although in this case

the "sound" is not vibrations

in the air but instead very low

frequency radio waves which have

been digitally converted to sound.

These are known as whistler-mode waves.

There are a few different types

of these. One of these is whistler

waves, which are caused by lightning

strikes on Earth. The lightning

creates a range of frequencies

and, since the higher frequencies

travel faster, the wave has a

falling pitch, giving them the

name whistler.

Then there is chorus.

And plasmaspheric hiss, which

is much less beautiful and honestly

a bit creepy.

Earth isn't the only planet

to have strange and eerie radio

emissions though. Saturn's plasma

waves sound very odd, although

in this case the audio is being

played back around 34 times faster

than real time.

Oh, I should specify that although

all this media is real, it is,

of course, enhanced and may be

be at different speeds than real

time or may be composited from

many different images.

Our Sun is beautiful, especially

the images captured by NASA's

Solar Dynamics Observatory while

orbiting Earth. The SDO has been

watching the Sun nearly non-stop

for 15 years! In that time it

has captured solar eclipses, the

transit of Venus, the transit

of Mercury, and just so much more.

Being able to observe the Sun

like this is amazing!

It even captured a comet disintegrating

as it grazed the Sun!

Anyway, as cool as that is,

this video is about more than

just the Sun.

The Juno mission has captured

some of the most amazing photos

of Jupiter! From the Great Red

Spot to the poles to moons to

moon shadows...Juno has really

captured Jupiter's design like

nothing else has! And even an

incredible time lapse of the Jovian

system as the spacecraft approached

the planet.

Since its launch in 2021, or

rather since its first images

in 2022, the James Webb Space

Telescope has not disappointed!

It is now responsible for capturing

some of the most breathtaking

photos of deep space objects.

And even some photos of objects

in our Solar System.

Of course, it's predecessor,

the Hubble Space Telescope, is

also responsible for some of the

most incredible photos of space!

It has captured over 1.6 million

images since 1990.

Even newer than the James Webb

Space Telescope is the Rubin Observatory

which has captured some absolutely

amazing and incredibly high-resolution

photos of space!

And in addition to all that

has already been shown, there

are thousands of other incredible

images from many different missions!

Oh and if you know of some amazing

media which wasn't included in

this list, I actually asked the

BlenderTimer community what space

themed media was their favorite.

So if you want to be part of the

next survey, consider joining

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