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'Light Fantastic'

21,837 images across 18 time-lapse sequences photographed by Don Pettit & Butch Wilmore are repaired, remastered and retimed to create 3x real time video footage with music by Chris Zabriskie.

Credit: Butch Wilmore / Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

https://youtu.be/0cKkyK8sLEM

ISS - Light Fantastic

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Seán Doran Jun 18, 2025

'Starlink Express'

2,927 images captured by Butch Wilmore are processed, graded & interpolated to create a 3x real-time video from ISS Expedition 72 with music by Chris Zabriskie.

Credit: Butch Wilmore / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0pCdGCSvcE

ISS - Starlink Express

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Seán Doran May 28, 2025

'Planet Pirouette'

1,500 images captured by Don Pettit are processed, graded & interpolated to create this video footage of the Optimal Propellant Maneuver by ISS on 7th April 2025, music by Stellardrone. Cropped and edited from 8m34s 4k original.

Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

Seán Doran May 28, 2025

'CRS-31 Undock'

929 images captured by Don Pettit are processed, graded & interpolated to create this video footage of CRS-31 undocking from ISS on 16th December 2024, with music by Stellardrone. Cropped and edited from 5m19s 4k original.

Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

Seán Doran May 28, 2025

'Andes Of Chile'

400 images captured by Nichole Ayers are processed, graded & interpolated to create a real time video from ISS Expedition 73 with music by Chris Zabriskie. Cropped and edited from 2m53s 4k original.

Credit: Nichole Ayers / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

Seán Doran May 28, 2025

'The Emerald Sea'

4,427 images captured by Don Pettit are processed, graded & interpolated to create this video of aurorae below ISS on April 5/6 2025 with music by Chris Zabriskie. Cropped and edited from 10m54s 4k original.

Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

Seán Doran Feb 12, 2024

aster cowart Feb 12, 2024

I was interviewed for an article on a new paper in Nature Geoscience that I'm on! Come read about an exciting form of pre-plate tectonic landscape formation on Mars!

Article: https://www.space.com/mars-volcanically-active-4-billion-years-search-for-life

Open-Access Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02191-7

Life on Mars could have thrived near active volcanoes and an ancient mile-deep lake

"At the very least, these findings give us a larger number of places we can look for evidence of life."

Space

Seán Doran Jan 25, 2024

Phil Stooke Jan 24, 2024

Let's look at the scenery at the Surveyor 7 site. I made this image of the hills north of the lander from single frames scanned at LPI. What a place it would be to walk around. I scanned lots of Surveyor stuff at LPI, Flagstaff and LPL in Tucson about 20 years ago, enough for a panorama of each site (but not all as good as these panorama fragments).

Seán Doran Jan 1, 2024

Kevin M. Gill Dec 31, 2023

Another look at Jupiter’s moon Io with decorrelated colors and boosted to show the dark jupitershine on the right. A lot of credit goes to the JunoCam team for recovering the camera from apparent severe radiation damage that ruined much of the last perijove images. Expect a lot of cool science to come out of this pass and the next one in February!

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

#Jupiter #Io #Perijove57 #Juno #JunoCam #Space #Science

Seán Doran Dec 26, 2023

Phil Stooke Dec 26, 2023

Today I am going to start a set of maps of the lunar far side showing its gradual unveiling by successive missions. What was known about the far side before the space age? The edges of it can be glimpsed because of libration, but very obliquely, and it's not easy to map. But crater rays can be seen crossing the limb and can be extrapolated onto the far side to suggest where ray craters might be. H.P. Wilkins and Patrick Moore put those things together in 'The Moon' (1955). (1/2)