The Planets

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere" - Carl Sagan

[trasemc]

NASA has released new images of Jupiter, taken by the Juno Spacecraft.

[odysseuslost]

Apollo 12 Magazine 55/EE,  November 14th-24th, 1969

[planned-planethood]

The South and North poles of Mars

(Image credit: ESA)

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by roblfc1892

[a1-b2c3-deactivated20230114]

why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like… 

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth) 

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)

salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)

and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens

BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species

[wearethesparkk]

I KNOW!! I did a report on filming locations in Star Wars last year and just made a list of places that looked so surreal they could make a convincing other planet. You covered some on my list but if I could just add a couple more:

Tsingy di Bemaraha, Madagascar

Zhangye Danxia, China (similar to the Rainbow Mountains in terms of appearance)

Chocolate Hills, Philippines

Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland

So many missed opportunities with cool ass things on Earth, Lucasfilms smh…

[memcjo]

Earth is effing amazing!

[isnerdy-deactivated20190101]

Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina

Lake Retba, Senegal

Tepui, Venezuela

Tianzi Mountains, China

[bunjywunjy]

these would make amazing Star Wars planets OR fantasy material:

Tsingy du Bemaraha, Madagascar again (but a different part)

(those are razor-sharp, if you were wondering. very little of this area has been explored because YIKES)

Lake Natron, Tanzania

(looks cool, but is alkaline enough to Kill Your Shit)

Lake Baikal, Russia

(the deepest lake in the world, seriously)

and I’ll wrap it up with Son Doong Cave, Vietnam, the largest cave in the entire world.

it puts anything Dagobah has to offer to absolute shame:

(seriously, the largest chamber is 660 feet high. you could jam a fucking skyscraper in there and still lose it) 

anyway I really like caves thanks for coming to my ted talk

[onewingedangels]

so EA 2018….

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

This image of Jupiter was taken by Juno on December 16 and then processed by citizen scientist David Marriott.

Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / David Marriott 

[just--space]

Translucent rings, taken by NASAs Cassini.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BTHFyZeBxdI/

[herowyn]

nebula

( ˈnɛbjʊlə) ; latin, meaning “cloud” n. an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases.

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Imagine yourself in space

[planetfarfaraway]

Earth shines as a tiny speck of light between Saturn’s icy rings, a testament to the incredible distance made by Cassini’s final mission {x}

[spacesource]

Mars’ surface reveals the remnants of lava flows in the Tharsis region. x x

[hellospacebot]

A photo of Saturn. Took by Cassini with COISS on September 04, 2004 at 23:20:42. Detail page on OPUS database.

[r-pley]

rogue one + planets

[planetfarfaraway]

nasa: Jupiter from below! {x}

[connie-rubirosa]

star wars + planets