Solar system – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Sun, 04 Jun 2017 18:36:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 A colorful and dazzling view of Pluto https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/09/a-colorful-and-dazzling-view-of-pluto Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:52:31 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=17772 [From Engadget]…

While NASA has already shown us Pluto’s best images yet, the administration is anything but done blowing our minds. What you see above is an enhanced high-resolution color view of Pluto, created with a combination of blue, red and infrared images. NASA says this photo, taken by New Horizons spacecraft, highlights Pluto’s diverse landforms and shows us its complex geological and climatological story — as much as scientists have been able to figure out, anyway. Over the past few months, NASA’s shared many things related to Pluto, including a closer look at its desolate surface and icy mountain range.

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If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel — A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system | www.joshworth.com https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/08/if-the-moon-were-only-1-pixel-a-tediously-accurate-scale-model-of-the-solar-system-www-joshworth-com Wed, 05 Aug 2015 02:27:33 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=15901 moon-clip-art-moon-clip-art-5

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