Rediscovered Astronomy releases animations of the planets in our solar system.
Well, we are meeting our goal of releasing the animations of the planets in our solar system three months ahead of schedule.
The animations of the main 8 planets have been uploaded. We will upload animations of smaller bodies and dwarf planets later. The animations were created in collaboration with J.J. Del Mar.
For use and license please see each planet page. You can visit the animations main page here:
A travel around Earth as it would be seen from a space probe.
Rediscovered Astronomy will publish Solar System animations and space general info this coming 2016 as part of our effort to renew our content for our audience.
Enjoy this awesome CGI display of Mars – We will be posting animations for all the planets in our solar system.
The following animation was rendered using real NASA photos. It displays a 180° turn of the red planet. It also features realistic topography and atmosphere.
Animation by JJ Del Mar
Rediscovered Astronomy will publish Solar System animations and space general info this coming 2016 as part of our effort to renew our content for our audience.
NASA recently confirmed the presence of liquid flowing water on Mars. With this anticipated confirmation, the vision of humans landing on the red planet, Mars, is being revived. Space scientists have finally confirmed what they had long suspected for at least a 100 years. Will a Mars Direct, or a modified similar approach, put man on Mars at last?
The dream of Mars Society president, Dr. Robert Zubrin, may come true after all. It was Zubrin along with his team who developed the most feasible and cheapest aerospace approach to get to Mars.
Here’s the story of it all.
The Mars Underground Film: Orange Dot Entertainment | Radius Productions
Some people have always thought there’s something fishy about [dwarf] planet Pluto. Not only is Pluto in tandem with its moon Charon, has four other moons, but now New Horizons mission discovers a mysterious bulge near the planet’s “north” pole.
The following animated image was composed from a series of photos taken by New Horizons last April. The bulge can be seen as both bodies rotate.
Dawn, JPL / NASA’s space probe, achieved orbit around planet Ceres this Friday, March 6, 2015 as it was programmed. The sapce caft had been sending clearer imagery of the [dwarf] planet Ceres since early this year. The probe started to slow down its speed to position itself around the orbit of Ceres.
The best picture of Ceres had been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope years before Dawn reached the [dwarf] planet’s vicinity.
Ceres | Hubble Space Telescope – NASA
It was early this year when NASA released photos taken with cameras onboard the space probe as it closed by the small planet Ceres.
Gallery Updated April 30, 2015
An unusual bright spot was rediscovered on Ceres in one of the pictures from Dawn. Further inspection would find another smaller bright spot as it shows the next image released last February 19, 2015
Ceres bright spots 02-19-2015 | Dawn – NASA/JPL
Today Dawn is in orbit around the [dwarf] planet Ceres. The follwing image was released last March 01, 2015 by NASA. As the probe orbits Ceres, the lead team hopes to obtain more data and better resolution images that helps them explain what the bright spots on the planet are.
