Space is crazy .
1.This is what the Space Shuttle Endeavour looked like as it left Earth and traveled into orbit:
2.This is what a typhoon looks like from space:
3.This is how big Earth is compared to Saturn:
4.This is what a sunset looks like from space:
5.This is a picture of Pluto and its moons taken in 2006…
6.And this is a much, much clearer picture of Pluto taken only a decade later, in 2015:
7.On Feb. 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless II performed the first-ever untethered space walk, and folks, it looks absolutely terrifying:
8.This is a picture of the ice mountains of Pluto as seen from the New Horizons space probe:
9.This is what New Zealand looks like from space:
10.This is how big an average-sized comet is compared to Paris:
11.This is a REAL picture of the moon crossing in front of the Earth:
12.This is what a solar eclipse looks like from space:
13.In 1972, astronaut Charles Duke left behind a picture of his family on the moon’s surface. It’s been there ever since:
14.This picture, taken in 1946, is one of the first images of Earth ever taken from space:
15.And this is the first picture of Earth from the moon, taken in 1966 by Lunar Orbiter 1:
16.And this is a picture of Earth that was taken 20 minutes before this article was published:
17.The Mars rovers are way, way bigger than you thought they were:
18.This is how big the Moon and Pluto’s moon Charon are compared to the Earth:
19.This is what a piece of the moon and a piece of Mars looks like:
20.This is what color Venus is in real life:
21.These are two of the earliest known photographs of Saturn and Jupiter, taken in the 19th century:
22.You’re probably familiar with the “Face on Mars,” an image of a formation on Mars from the 1970s that launched a million conspiracy theories…
23….well, this is what a much less blurry, much more recent photograph of that same “face” looks like:
24.Space and time is absolutely nuts:
25.Buzz Aldrin took humanity’s first “space selfie” while on a spacewalk in 1966:
26.Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the solar system, the 72,000-foot-tall Olympus Mons:
27.There’s a bunch of trash left by humans on the moon. In fact, if you really want to know, there are 96bagsof human waste on that big pie in the sky:
28.Here’s a computer illustration of what Olympus Mons looks like from space:
29.This is what Antarctica looks like from space:
30.This is Eugene Cernan, who is, as of 2023, thelast manto ever walk on the moon:
31.You might recognize Eugene from this iconic picture of his moon walk:
32.This is the Willamette meteorite, the largest meteorite that’s ever been found in the United States:
33.And this is the Hoba meteorite, the largest meteorite on Earth:
34.The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is shrinking:
35.See that little hole there? This is what Mount Vesuvius looks like from space:
36.Way out on the edge of the Solar System is this big ol' hunk of rock called Ultima Thule, Arrokoth, or (486958) 2014 MU69 — the farthest thing from Earth humanity has ever “explored upclose”:
37.In 2018, NASA captured an unreal-looking rectangular iceberg:
38.NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just took some brand-new pictures of Uranus. Here’s what one of the new photos looks like:
39.While we’re at it, here’s another new picture from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this time of Neptune:
40.This, to scale, is how far apart the Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy are:
41.This is a close-up of some well-worn pebbles on the surface of Mars:
42.Speaking of Mars, this is what a sunset looks like on that there planet:
43.This is what the moon looks like in the Northern Hemisphere…
44….and this is what the moon looks like in the Southern Hemisphere. It’s upside down:
45.This is what Jupiter would look like if it were as close as the moon:
46.This is what Ireland looks like from space:
47.This is astronaut Joseph P. Allen IV doing maintenance on a satellite in the middle of the cold, dark void of space:
48.This is what the eye of a hurricane looks like from above:
49.This is the last image NASA’s InSight rover sent from Mars before running out of power at the end of its mission last December:
50.And finally, this is the statement President Jimmy Carter wrote and put aboard theVoyager 1spacecraft, intended for any aliens the probe might encounter:
