Mars is one of the most photographed objects in the solar system. There are hundreds of thousands of photographs of telescopes and spacecraft taken both from the Earth and from orbit around the planet, and directly from the surface.

From such a large number photos of Mars, we will show some of the most interesting.

Hubble snapshot

Mars planet: photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on October 28, 2005, when it was at its closest approach to Earth.

If you look closely, you will see huge dust storms. This dust storm the size of Texas.

This image was taken by the rover. Pictured above is Victoria Crater. The Opportunity rover slowly moved up the rim of the crater to examine the rock walls, evidence of the presence of liquid water on the surface.

The crater is clearly visible in the photo, and in the inset, on the left side, NASA's Phoenix lander is visible. The image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The largest canyon in the solar system is the amazing Mariner Valley on Mars. More than 4000 km wide, and up to 7 km deep in some places.

This photo is only part of the canyon. The photo was taken by the Mars Express spacecraft.

Over 1,000 individual images taken by the Viking orbiter have been stitched together to create this composite image of Mars.

This is one of the most beautiful pictures of the red planet. Mount Olympus, and other large volcanoes, are on the left side of the photo. The Mariner Valley is at the bottom and the north polar ice cap is visible from above.

Images taken at extra-long distances by the Hubble Space Telescope, which left Earth exactly 25 years ago. The deadline is no joke. In the first image, the Horsehead Nebula has graced astronomy books ever since it was discovered about a century ago.

Jupiter's moon Ganymede is shown as it begins to hide behind giant planet. Consisting of rocky rock and ice, the satellite is the largest in the solar system, even more planet Mercury.


Resembling a butterfly and named accordingly, the Butterfly Nebula is made up of hot gas with a temperature of about 20,000 ° C and moves through the universe at a speed of more than 950,000 km per hour. From the Earth to the Moon at this speed can be reached in 24 minutes.


The Cone Nebula is about 23 million trips around the moon. The entire length of the nebula is about 7 light years. It is believed that it is the incubator of new stars.


The Eagle Nebula is a mixture of chilled gas and dust from which stars are born. Height - 9.5 light years or 57 trillion miles, twice as long as the distance from the Sun to its nearest star.


The bright southern hemisphere of the star RS Puppis is surrounded by a reflective cloud of dust, counted like a lampshade. This star has a mass 10 times greater than the Sun, and 200 times larger than it.

The Pillars of Creation are in the Eagle Nebula. They are made up of stellar gas and dust and are located 7,000 light-years from Earth.


Such a clear shot wide angle lens galaxy M82 was produced for the first time. This galaxy is notable for its bright blue disk, a network of scattered clouds, and fiery jets of hydrogen emanating from its center.

Hubble captured a rare moment of two spiral galaxies on the same line: the first, small, rests on the center of the larger one.

The Crab Nebula is the trail of a supernova that was recorded by Chinese astronomers as early as 1054. thus, this nebula is the first astronomical object associated with a historical supernova explosion.

This beauty is the spiral galaxy M83, located 15 million light-years from the nearest constellation, Hydra.


Sombrero Galaxy: stars located on the surface of the "pancake", and accumulated in the center of the disk.


A pair of interacting galaxies, called "Antennas". While two galaxies are colliding, new stars are born - mostly in groups and star clusters.


Light echo of V838 Monocerotis, a variable star in the constellation Monoceros, about 20,000 light-years away. In 2002, she survived an explosion, the cause of which is still unknown.


The massive star Eta Carina, located in our own Milky Way. Many scientists believe that it will soon explode to turn into a supernova.


Giant star-producing nebula with massive star clusters.


The four moons of Saturn, taken by surprise as they run past their parent.


Two interacting galaxies: on the right is the large spiral NGC 5754, on the left is its younger comrade.


The luminous remnants of a star that went out thousands of years ago.


Butterfly Nebula: walls of compressed gas, taut filaments, bubbling streams. Night, street, lamp.


The Black Eye Galaxy. So named because of the black ring formed as a result of an ancient explosion with seething inside.


An unusual planetary nebula NGC 6751. Glowing like an eye in the constellation Aquila, this nebula was formed several thousand years ago from hot star(visible in the center).


Boomerang Nebula. The light-reflecting cloud of dust and gas has two symmetrical "wings" radiating from the central star.


Spiral galaxy "Whirlpool". Curly arcs in which newborn stars reside. In the center, where it is better and more impressive, there are old stars.


Mars. 11 hours before the planet hit a record close range from Earth (August 26, 2003).


Traces of a dying star in the Ant Nebula


A molecular cloud (or "stellar cradle"; astronomers are unfulfilled poets) called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years from Earth. Somewhere in the south of the constellation Carina

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The other day, NASA announced that on July 19, the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn will photograph the Earth, which at the time of shooting will be at a distance of 1.44 billion kilometers from the device. This is not the first photo shoot of this kind, but the first one that was announced in advance. NASA experts hope that the new image will take pride of place among such famous shots Earth. Like it or not, time will tell, but for now we can remember the history of photographing our planet from the depths of space.

Since ancient times, people have always wanted to look at our planet from above. The advent of aviation gave mankind the opportunity to rise above the clouds, and soon the rapid development of rocket technology made it possible to obtain photographs from truly space heights. The first images from space (according to the FAI standards, according to which space begins at a height of 100 km above sea level) were made in 1946 using a captured V-2 rocket.


First attempt at photography earth's surface satellite was undertaken in 1959. Satellite Explorer-6 I took this amazing photo.

By the way, after the mission of Explorer-6 was completed, he still served the American Motherland, becoming a target for testing anti-satellite missiles.

Since then, satellite photography has developed at an incredible pace and now you can find a bunch of images of any part of the earth's surface for every taste. But the vast majority of these photos were taken from low earth orbit. What does the Earth look like from more distant distances?

Snapshot of the Apollos

The only people who could see the entire Earth (roughly speaking in one frame) were 24 people from the Apollo crews. We have a few classic shots as a legacy from this program.

And here is a picture taken with Apollo 11, where the earth terminator is clearly visible (and yes, we are not talking about a famous action movie, but about a line dividing the illuminated and unlit parts of the planet).

Photo of the Earth's crescent over the surface of the Moon, taken by the crew Apollo 15.

Another Earthrise, this time over the so-called dark side of the Moon. Photo taken with Apollo 16.

"The Blue Marble"- another iconic photograph taken on December 7, 1972 by the crew of Apollo 17 from a distance of approximately 29 thousand km. from our planet. It wasn't the first image to show a completely illuminated Earth, but it became one of the most famous. Apollo 17 astronauts are still last people who could observe the Earth from this angle. For the 40th anniversary of the photo, NASA remake this photo by gluing a bunch of frames from different satellites into a single composite image. There is also a Russian analogue made from the Elektro-M satellite.


When viewed from the surface of the Moon, the Earth is constantly at the same point in the sky. Since the Apollos landed in the equatorial regions, in order to make a patriotic avatar, the astronauts had to get the hang of it.

Shots from moderate distances

In addition to the Apollos, a number of AMS photographed the Earth from a great distance. Here are the most famous of these pictures

Very famous shot Voyager 1 taken on September 18, 1977 from a distance of 11.66 million kilometers from Earth. As far as I know, this was the first image of the Earth and the Moon in one frame.

A similar picture taken by the device Galileo from a distance of 6.2 million kilometers in 1992


Photo taken on July 3, 2003 from the station Mars Express. The distance to Earth is 8 million kilometers.


And here is the most recent, but oddly the worst quality picture taken by the mission Juno from a distance of 9.66 million kilometers. So think - either NASA really saved on cameras, or because of the financial crisis, all the employees responsible for photoshop were fired.

Pictures from Martian orbit

This is what the Earth and Jupiter looked like from the orbit of Mars. The pictures were taken on May 8, 2003 by the apparatus Mars Global Surveyor, which was at that time at a distance of 139 million kilometers from the Earth. It is worth noting that the camera on board the device could not take color images and these are pictures in artificial colors.

Map of the location of Mars and planets at the time of shooting


And this is how the Earth looks already from the surface of the red planet. It is difficult to disagree with this inscription.

And here is another image of the Martian sky. The brighter point is Venus, the less bright one (pointed to by the arrows) is our home planet

Who cares, a very atmospheric photo of a sunset on Mars. It is somewhat reminiscent of a similar frame from a movie Stranger.

Pictures from the orbit of Saturn


in higher resolution

And here is the Earth in one of the pictures taken by the device mentioned at the beginning Cassini. The image itself is a composite image taken in September 2006. It was made up of 165 photographs taken in infrared and ultraviolet, which were then glued and processed to make the colors look like natural ones. In contrast to this mosaic, during the July 19 survey, the Earth and Saturn system will be filmed for the first time in so-called natural colors, that is, as they would be seen by the human eye. In addition, for the first time, the Earth and the Moon will fall into the lens of the Cassini camera with the highest resolution.


Here's what Jupiter looks like from Saturn's orbit. The picture, of course, was also taken by the Cassini apparatus. At that time, the gas giants were separated by a distance of 11 astronomical units.

Family portrait "from inside" the solar system

This portrait of the solar system was taken by the spacecraft MESSENGER in orbit around Mercury in November 2010. Compiled from 34 images, the mosaic shows all the planets in the solar system, except for Uranus and Neptune, which were too far away to be recorded. In the pictures you can see the Moon, the four main satellites of Jupiter and even a piece of the Milky Way.


In fact, our home planet .

Scheme of the location of the apparatus and planets at the time of shooting.

And finally, the father of all family portraits and ultra-long-range photographs - a mosaic of 60 photographs taken by the same Voyager 1 between February 14 and June 6, 1990. After the passage of Saturn in November 1980, the apparatus was generally inactive - others celestial bodies he did not have left to study, and before approaching the border of the heliopause, there were still about 25 years of flight.

After numerous requests, Carl Sagan managed to convince NASA management to reactivate the ship's cameras that were turned off a decade ago and take a picture of all the planets in the solar system. Only Mercury (which was too close to the Sun), Mars (which, again, was prevented by light from the Sun) and Pluto, which was simply too small, could not be photographed.


"Take another look at this dot. This is here. This is our home. This is us. Everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of, all people who have ever lived lived their lives on Our many pleasures and pains, thousands of self-confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and gatherer, every hero and coward, every builder and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every couple in love, every mother and every father, every capable child, inventor and traveler, every ethics teacher, every deceitful politician, every "superstar", every "greatest leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived here - on a mote suspended in a sunbeam.

Earth is a very small stage in the vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood shed by all these generals and emperors, so that, in the rays of glory and triumph, they may become momentary masters of a fraction of a grain of sand. Think of the endless cruelties committed by the inhabitants of one corner of this point on the barely distinguishable inhabitants of another corner. About how frequent disagreements are between them, about how eager they are to kill each other, about how hot their hatred is.

Our posturing, our imagined importance, our delusion of our privileged status in the universe, they all succumb to this point of pale light. Our planet is just a single speck of dust in the surrounding cosmic darkness. In this vast void, there is no hint that someone will come to our aid in order to save us from our own ignorance.

Earth is the only known world capable of sustaining life. We have nowhere else to go - at least in the near future. Stay - yes. Colonize - not yet. Like it or not, the Earth is our home now."

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Mysterious nebulae that are millions of light years away, the birth of new stars and the collision of galaxies. 2nd part of the collection the best photos from space Hubble telescope. The first part is located.

This is the part carina nebulae. The total diameter of the nebula is over 200 light years. Located 8,000 light-years from Earth, the Carina Nebula can be seen in the southern sky with the naked eye. It is one of the brightest regions in the Galaxy:

Hubble ultra-long-range field (WFC3 camera). Composed of gas and dust:

Another photo Carina Nebulae:

By the way, let's get acquainted with the culprit of today's report. This Hubble telescope in space. Placement of the telescope in space makes it possible to register electromagnetic radiation in the ranges where earth atmosphere opaque; first of all - in infrared range. Due to the absence of the influence of the atmosphere, the resolution of the telescope is 7-10 times greater than that of a similar telescope located on Earth.

The Discovery shuttle, which launched on April 24, 1990, launched the telescope into its intended orbit the next day. The total cost of the project, according to an estimate for 1999, amounted to 6 billion dollars from the American side and 593 million euros were paid by the European Space Agency.

Globular cluster in the constellation Centaurus. It is located at a distance of 18,300 light years. Omega Centauri belongs to our Milky Way galaxy and is its largest globular cluster known to this moment. It contains several million stars. The age of Omega Centauri is estimated at 12 billion years:

Nebula Butterfly ( NGC 6302) - planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpio. It has one of the most complex structures among the known polar nebulae. central star of the nebula one of the hottest in the galaxy. The central star was discovered by the Hubble telescope in 2009:

The largest in the solar system. Along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, Jupiter is classified as a gas giant. Jupiter has at least 63 moons. Mass of Jupiter 2.47 times the total mass of all the other planets of the solar system combined, 318 times the mass of our Earth and about 1,000 times less than the mass of the Sun:

Some more images Carina Nebulae:

Part of a galaxy - a dwarf galaxy located at a distance of about 50 kiloparsecs from our Galaxy. This distance is less than twice the diameter of our Galaxy:

And yet the photographs Carina Nebulae one of the most beautiful

Spiral Galaxy Whirlpool. It is located at a distance of about 30 million light years from us in the constellation Canis Hounds. The diameter of the galaxy is about 100 thousand light years:

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken amazing images of the planetary nebula retina, which was formed from the remains of the dying star IC 4406. Like most nebulae, the Retina Nebula is almost perfectly symmetrical, its right half is almost a mirror image of the left. In a few million years, only a slowly cooling white dwarf will remain of IC 4406:

M27 is one of the brightest planetary nebulae in the sky and can be seen with binoculars in the constellation Vulpecula. Light has been traveling to us from M27 for about a thousand years:

It looks like puffs of smoke and sparks from fireworks, but it's actually debris from a star exploding in a nearby galaxy. Our Sun and the planets in the solar system formed from similar debris that appeared after a supernova explosion billions of years ago in the Milky Way galaxy:

In the constellation Virgo at a distance of 28 million light years from Earth. The Sombrero Galaxy got its name from the protruding central part (bulge) and the rib of dark matter, giving the galaxy a resemblance to a sombrero hat:



The exact distance to it is unknown, according to various estimates, it can be from 2 to 9 thousand light years. Width 50 light years. The name of the nebula means "divided into three petals":

Nebula Snail NGC 7293 in the constellation Aquarius at a distance of 650 light years from the Sun. One of the closest planetary nebulae and was discovered in 1824:

Located in the constellation Eridanus, 61 million light-years from Earth. The size of the galaxy itself is 110 thousand light years, it is a little more than our galaxy, the Milky Way. NGC 1300 is unlike some spiral galaxies, including our Galaxy, in that there is no massive black hole in its core:

Dust clouds in our Milky Way galaxy. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, also known simply as the Galaxy (with capital letter) is a giant spiral star system in which our solar system is located. The diameter of the Galaxy is about 30,000 parsecs (about 100,000 light years) with an estimated average thickness of about 1,000 light years. The Milky Way contains, at the lowest estimate, about 200 billion stars. In the center of the Galaxy, apparently, there is a supermassive black hole:

On the right, at the top - these are not fireworks, this is a dwarf galaxy - a satellite of our Milky Way. It is located at a distance of about 60 kiloparsecs in the constellation Tucana:

Formed during the collision of four massive galaxies. This is the first case of visualization of this phenomenon, captured by combining images. Galaxies are surrounded by hot gas, which is shown in the image different color, depending on its temperature: reddish purple is the coldest, cyan is the hottest:

It is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter. Today, all four gaseous giants are known to have rings, but Saturn's are the most prominent. The rings of Saturn are very thin. With a diameter of about 250,000 km, their thickness does not reach even a kilometer. The mass of the planet Saturn is 95 times the mass of our Earth:

In the constellation Golden Fish. The nebula belongs to the satellite galaxy of the Milky Way - the Large Magellanic Cloud:

Measuring 100 thousand light years and located at a distance of 35 million light years from the Sun:

And a bonus shot. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00 hours 12 minutes 44 seconds Moscow time today, June 8, 2011, ship successfully launched Soyuz TMA-02M. This is the second flight of the spacecraft of the new, "digital" series Soyuz-TMA-M. Nice start:


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If you are interested in seeing the photo, what do the planets look like solar system, the material of this article is just for you. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune in the photo look extremely diverse and this is not surprising, because each planet is a perfect and unique "organism" in the universe.

So, short description planets, as well as photos, see below.

What does Mercury look like in a photo?

Mercury

Venus is more similar to the Earth in its size and radiant brightness. Observation of it is extremely difficult due to densely enveloping clouds. The surface is a rocky hot desert.

Characteristics of the planet Venus:

Diameter at the equator: 12104 km.

Average surface temperature: 480 degrees.

Revolution around the Sun: 224.7 days.

Rotation period (turn around the axis): 243 days.

Atmosphere: dense, mostly carbon dioxide.

Number of satellites: no.

The main satellites of the planet: no.

What does the Earth look like in a photo?

Earth

Mars is the 4th planet from the sun. For some time, due to the similarity to the Earth, it was assumed that life existed on Mars. But launched to the surface of the planet spacecraft did not find any signs of life.

Characteristics of the planet Mars:

Diameter of the planet at the equator: 6794 km.

Average surface temperature: -23 degrees.

Revolution around the Sun: 687 days.

Rotation period (rotation around the axis): 24 hours 37 minutes.

Atmosphere of the planet: rarefied, mostly carbon dioxide.

Number of satellites: 2 pcs.

The main satellites are in order: Phobos, Deimos.

What Jupiter looks like in a photo

Jupiter

Planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are made up of hydrogen and other gases. Jupiter in size more earth 10 times in diameter, 1300 times in volume and 300 times in mass.

Characteristics of the planet Jupiter:

Diameter of the planet at the equator: 143884 km.

Average surface temperature of the planet: -150 degrees (average).

Revolution around the Sun: 11 years 314 days.

Rotation period (turn around the axis): 9 hours 55 minutes.

Number of satellites: 16 (+ rings).

The main satellites of the planets in order: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto.

What does Saturn look like in the photo

Saturn

Saturn is considered the second largest planet in the solar system. A system of rings formed from ice, rocks and dust revolves around the planet. Among all the rings, there are 3 main rings with a thickness of about 30 meters and an outer diameter of 270 thousand km.

Characteristics of the planet Saturn:

Diameter of the planet at the equator: 120536 km.

Average surface temperature: -180 degrees.

Revolution around the Sun: 29 years 168 days.

Rotation period (turn around the axis): 10 hours 14 minutes.

Atmosphere: mostly hydrogen and helium.

Number of satellites: 18 (+ rings).

Main satellites: Titan.

What does Uranus look like in the photo

UranusNeptune

Neptune is currently considered the last last planet in the solar system. Pluto has been removed from the list of planets since 2006. In 1989, unique images of the blue surface of Neptune were obtained.

Characteristics of the planet Neptune:

Diameter at the equator: 50538 km.

Average surface temperature: -220 degrees.

Revolution around the Sun: 164 years 292 days.

Rotation period (turn around the axis): 16 hours 7 minutes.

Atmosphere: mostly hydrogen and helium.

Number of satellites: 8.

Main satellites: Triton.

We hope you saw what the planets look like: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and found out
how great they all are. Their view even from space is simply mesmerizing.

See also "Planets of the solar system in order (in pictures)"