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HiPOD 28 Dec 2021: Dunes and Bedrock

Sometimes, we acquire an image for the simple reason of getting either more coverage of an area, and/or to complete a mosaic of a particular spot. Such is the case for this observation near the center of a massive, eroded and unnamed impact crater in Arabia Terra. It’s located to the west of the much larger Cassini and Pasteur craters.

Enhanced color is less than 1 km across; black and white is less than 5 km. For full images including scale bars, visit the source link.

ID: ESP_065196_1960 date: 23 June 2020 altitude: 279 km

NASA/JPL/UArizona

The Sun, as of August 12, 2015.

Starbright.

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Lynds Dark Nebula 1251 : Stars are forming in Lynds Dark Nebula (LDN) 1251. About 1,000 light-years away and drifting above the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the dusty molecular cloud is part of a complex of dark nebulae mapped toward the Cepheus flare region. Across the spectrum, astronomical explorations of the obscuring interstellar clouds reveal energetic shocks and outflows associated with newborn stars, including the telltale reddish glow from scattered Herbig-Haro objects seen in this sharp image. Distant background galaxies also lurk on the scene, buried behind the dusty expanse. This alluring view imaged with a backyard telescope and broadband filters spans about two full moons on the sky, or 17 light-years at the estimated distance of LDN 1251. via NASA

Earth, Moon, and Sun, painted by Chesley Bonestell, printed in Future Life, April 1978.

Icosa Glass - 210406

Comet NEAT revealed in close-up by the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona on May 7, 2004.

(HubbleSite)

Cylinder Fragments - 230322

Art G.Shvecova (Design graphics - Green Planet_250418)

John Harris, ‘Sunflowers in Starlight’