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Wanderers by Erik Wernquist

June 12th, 2015 | Space

Wanderers by Erik Wernquist

Wanderers is a beautiful short film by Erik Wernquist. The visuals depict humanity’s future expansion into the Solar System replete with colonies on Mars, astronauts floating through Saturn’s rings, and humans hiking across Europa’s frozen oceans. Erik’s renderings are stunning. As Phil Plait pointed out at Slate:

“Nothing in there is impossible; no faster than light travel, no wormholes. Even the space elevator shown towering over Mars and the huge cylindrical rotating colony in space (did you notice the Red Sea in it?) are problems in engineering, not physics. We can build them.”

Humanity has an exciting future ahead. I hope our species can work toward this reality.

-RSB

10 Moons

January 9th, 2012 | Space

Saturn’s Rhea

Jupiter’s Europa

Jupiter’s Callisto

Jupiter’s Io

Earth’s Moon Transiting The Sun

Saturn’s Mimas – aka Death Star

Mars’ Phobos

Neptune’s Triton

Uranus’ Oberon

Jupiter’s Ganymede

Check out this collection of spectacular moon photos I saw on the Mother Nature Network, and learn a bit about our solar system in the process.  A lot of the photos have different filters to make them look extra special, but they are interesting nonetheless.  I thought it would be cool to learn all of the moons of the solar system, but I found out there are more than 170, so that could be quite challenging.  Did you know Jupiter, alone, has 63 moons!?

-RSB