Well, that didn’t take long. Thank you Internet, you are truly the best thing ever. In case you missed it, there was a big-ass meteor that struck Earth earlier today in Russia. It’s a big deal. But leave it up to the Internet to make fun of it. Kudos.
Overnight a meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere and came down and struck Earth, in Central Russia, injuring over 900 people (possibly more). This sounds like a scene from a movie but it’s very real, and very scary. Imagine if this meteor were to hit a major metropolis city in the U.S., it would be devastating.
The Blue Marble is a famous photograph of the Earth taken by the crew of Apollo 17 in 1972, which showed a super clear image of the Earth illuminated by the Sun in a view that was never seen before. For the past 40 years this image of Earth has been one of a few images that we have, but it has now finally been complimented with The Black Marble, stunning hi-res images of Earth at night.
Just in case you missed the world record free fall from space, here it is in all it’s glory. Felix Baumgartner jumped from 128,000 feet up in the sky entering the Earth’s stratosphere (24 miles up), doing a free fall back down to Earth going as fast as 834.4 mph (Mach 1.24) breaking the speed of sound.
It’s been a while since I posted a really good time lapse video, but this one may take the cake. It’s a video compiled of photos taken from the International Space Station. I don’t know exactly how many photos were used, but must be thousands. Space is such a beautiful sight to see.
Finding out the distance from the stars to Earth may seem like a huge task at hand. And don’t get me wrong, it is. However, in this video by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, they breakdown how scientists measure the Universe in very simple terms using somewhat simple math.
The tornadoes here on Earth can exceed 150 mph and are treacherous, destroying everything in it’s path. Now just imagine a tornado that is 186,000 mph! That is what happened on the Sun, and researchers were able to capture it all on video.
This time lapse video is taken from the NASA Space Station using imagery compiled by NASA’s Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. It’s an amazing video, and well worth the watch for a view that is so rarely seen.
In Africa and most third world countries providing something we might take for granted such as shelter is difficult to do because building homes requires funding for supplies. This is when ingenuity comes into play and in Nigeria for example they are using something that they have an abundance of and doesn’t cost a penny to help provide shelter.
Last year, YouTube asked users to submit videos of their lives taking place on July 24, 2010. The submissions were to be made into a movie to document a single day on Earth. YouTube received over 4,500 hours of user content and edited it down to a 90 min movie called Life in a Day.
Maybe the “S” in iPhone 4S stands for Space? Maybe not, but in this video by Final Cut King, they launch two iPhone 4S’ into space with a weather balloon. Similar to when an Android phone was launched into space, you get a great visual from up above the clouds of Earth with the iPhone 4S’ new 8 megapixel camera lens.
Google Earth is an application that you download to your desktop or mobile app where you can go anywhere on the planet and view places that maybe you only dreamed of going to one day, including going beyond Earth to places like the Moon or Mars.
Here is yet another fascinating time lapse video, this time of the International Space Station as it orbits planet Earth at night. The video begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica.
It’s not often you get to see a photo like this one. The photo was taken on August 14, 2011 by Claudia Carmona who is only 10 years old in Madrid, Spain. The photo taken in the Sun’s chromosphere is of a solar prominence that perfectly captured the Earth in the background proving to be one amazing photo. The photo was taken using a Filter Solarmax 90 solar telescope with a high speed Camera DMK21AU618.AS.
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