Touchdown of Soyuz TMA-07M with ISS Expedition 35. The plume seen immediately after is dust thrown up by the Soyuz descent module’s soft landing rockets firing just before impact.
SeaLaunch Zenit 3SL launches Eutelsat 70B from 154ºW on the Equator.
Soyuz 2-1b launches two Galileo satellites from ESA Kourou Space Center in French Guiana.
(Source: spaceflightnow.com)
Spinning GIF of the first Mastcam color panorama from Mars Rover Curiosity.
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Greeley Haven Mars
This full-circle scene combines 817 images taken by the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. It shows the terrain that surrounded the rover while it was stationary for four months of work during its most recent Martian winter. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.
GIF derived rom the Greeley Panorama.
Animated GIF of Progress M-16M launch.
Looped GIF of JAXA H2-B launch with HTV3 Kounotori 3 resupply craft from Tanegashima to ISS.
Apollo 7 launch from Cape Canaveral. Oct 11, 1968.
photo source: floridamemory.com
animgif: scanzenThis Saturn IB will pierce your dash.
(via astronomerinprogress)
