Planetary Picture of the Day
Week of March 21, 2022
Iceland, Italy; Io, Europa, the Moon; and tracking Zhurong.
Monday, March 21, 2022
Credit: NASA/ESA/ISS
Italy From Space
Buongiorno a tutti! Have a wonderful day and a 'favolosa' week.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Credit: NASA / ULA
To the Moon!
What a sight! It has been decades since such a mighty launcher was rolled out. It took 10 hours and 38 minutes for the crawler-transporter to arrive at the launchpad with the 3.5-million-pound Space Launch System rocket and NASA's Orion Spacecraft. One more test before the liftoff of Artemis!
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/AndreaLuck
Juno Glimpses Io and Europa
NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere during the spacecraft’s 39th close flyby of the planet on Jan. 12, 2022. Zooming in on the right portion of the image reveals two more worlds in the same frame: Jupiter’s intriguing moons, Io (left) and Europa (right).
At the time this image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 61,000 kilometers from Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 52 degrees south. Citizen scientist Andrea Luck created the image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Credit: NASA/JPL/UArizona
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Tracking Zhurong
You are looking at the Chinese Zhurong rover from the orbit of Mars! Zhurong landed in May 2021. This HiRISE image, acquired on 11 March 2022, shows how far the rover has traveled in the ten months since it landed.
Article here: https://buff.ly/3w886gH
Friday, March 25, 2022
Credit: Iurie Belegurschi Photography
The otherworldly landscape of Iceland
The volcanic landscape of the Icelandic highlands almost seems like a different planet.
