my favourate image is this one taken by the cassini spacecraft as it was orbiting Saturn. The little bluish dot among Sutrn's rings is Earth, our home.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/cassini/2006-10-11/pia08329bright-browse.jpg
2007-09-11 06:16:20 · 7 answers · asked by Essien 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
That's nice but I don't see a blue dot.
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My favorite is EARTH RISE from Apollo 8, but the way it was meant to be mounted. When they took that picture the Moon was on the right as Apollo 8 was coming around from the backside of the Moon. When that picture got so famous it got turned on it's side with the Moon below and the Earth rising above it. Turned the right way it shows better how the men saw it.
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2007-09-11 06:50:52 · answer #1 · answered by ericbryce2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A shot of the Apollo 16 lander taken by Charlie Duke (I use a cropped version of this as my desktop):
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-117-18815HR.jpg
A shot of an exhausted, covered-with-moon-dust Gene Cernan after the last moon walk of Apollo 17:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-145-22224HR.jpg
2007-09-11 20:55:58 · answer #2 · answered by alan_has_bean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tough call, I have soo many, most can be found at the Astronomy Picture of the Day
My current wallpaper is the lovely Andrommeda:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0512/m31_gendler_Nmosaic1.jpg
2007-09-11 14:03:00 · answer #3 · answered by most important person you know 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aldrin on the moon, with Armstrong and the leg of the LM reflected in his visor.
2007-09-11 13:30:10 · answer #4 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hubble image of Eagle nebula, Pillars of Creation.
http://66.49.141.227/Hubble%20Universe%202/Eagle%20Nebula%20M16.jpg
BTW, The Saturn photo is great!, I found a higher rez one and just made it my desktop background. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA08329_fig2.jpg
Thanks again!
2007-09-11 13:41:44 · answer #5 · answered by RationalThinker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm rather fond of nebulas.
Cat's Eye nebula
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/431430366/
2007-09-12 02:30:54 · answer #6 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mine is this one.... "The Eye of God''....
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_eye_of_god.htm
2007-09-11 18:06:04 · answer #7 · answered by meanolmaw 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋