Philip Palmer's Debatable Spaces » Astronomy Photo of the Week http://www.philippalmer.net Philip Palmer on writing for print, radio and screen Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:41:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Astronomy Photo of the Day http://www.philippalmer.net/2010/03/01/astronomy-photo-of-the-day-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=astronomy-photo-of-the-day-4 http://www.philippalmer.net/2010/03/01/astronomy-photo-of-the-day-4/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:00:45 +0000 Philip Palmer http://www.philippalmer.net/?p=1801 How to clean windows without a ladder ….

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This is a night launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.  Amazing!

An extra treat: this is from a series called ‘Alien Landscapes on Earth’. The copyright belongs to Martin Rietze, and you can see it if you click

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Mercury, in colour

 

Image courtesy of NASA, and the Messenger spacecraft

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So this image really spooks me out; it’s sand dunes on Mars:

Image courtesy of NASA

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Image courtesy of NASA

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But here’s my pick of the week’s images – all available on the right hand link Astronomy Photo of the Day.  It’s an astronaut, catching a satellite.  How often do you see that?

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Here’s my favourite pic from last week.

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