In honor of NASA’s successful landing of the InSight Lander, here are a couple of Space Engine pictures of Mars centered on the Elysium Planitia.
Had to take a second closer picture since Phobos got in the way of the first picture.
Picture 1
Picture 2
Pictures of the Day - February 12, 2019 (Late Post)
Stormy atmosphere of a gas giant. The planet orbits a binary pair of stars consisting of a white F-Type star and a bright blue B-type star
Pillowfort has finally reopened new user registrations which will begin at 10 am eastern. There is a small $5 fee until the site is no longer in beta. I have permanently switched all my posts over there. I’ll be posting a follow up post with my blog link later today
Picture of the Day 2 - October 30, 2018
The approaching shadow of an eclipse across an alien desert.
Pictures of the day 2 - December 9, 2018
Here we have a few views of the system’s sixth planet viewed from the surfaces of the three inner-most moons.
View from the inner-most moon
View from the second moon
View from the third moon
Last shots of the system’s 5 largest worlds before continuing my adventures in Triangulum. I am now off to find another star system to explore.
High Resolution Pics
Image 1 - Inner Dwarf Planet
Image 2 - Planet 1 - Hot Ice Giant
Image 3 - Planet 2 - Rocky World
Image 4 - Planet 3 - Large Gas Giant
Image 5 - Planet 4 - Super Earth with satellite.
Picture of the day 2 - November 17, 2018
Setting sun on an arid Mars-Like planet.
Picture of the Day 2 - November 4, 2018
Auroras glow brilliantly over a lunar sky with the Milky way Galaxy looming large.
Pictures of the day - December 19, 2018
Insight A-IV is the fourth and largest planet orbiting Insight A. It is a large ice giant planet with a mass 41.38 times that of Earth and a diameter of 4.41 Earths. The planet has a hot atmosphere with a temperature of 297 F, which is dominated by hydrogen and helium. Additionally, a single large moon orbits the planet alongside 13 smaller asteroid-like satellites.
The planet orbits it’s sun at an average distance of 0.36 AU, completing an orbit once every 72.17 Earth Days. The planet is not tidally locked, but has a slow rotational rate of 288.70 Earth days, resulting in solar days that last 96.23 Earth days.
Insight A-IV
Stormy North Pole
Setting Sun
Crescents
View from the moon
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