Between Bright Places

@betweenbrightplaces
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Space enthusiast #space #science #engineering
Celebrating space exploration, discoveries and our journey between bright places.🔭🪐✨🚀
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has survived the closest-ever Sun flyby

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe transmitted a signal back to Earth after traveling within 3.8 million miles of the Sun’s surface, indicating it’s in “good health.”

The Verge

Art by Isaac Hannaford

#scifi #scifiart

Art by Frank Tinsley

#scifi #scifiart #retro

The unbuilt Soyuz 7K-SE2

No descent module

Basically a small medical facility that can dock with a space station.

Restored by me.

Another one restored and translated by me, stats for the "Grasshopper" transporter as used to move the N1 to the launch position.

A lot of my work is restoring and translating obscure spaceflight documents from the Soviet Union.

In this case "Object E-8 / Lunokhod.

Glory to Soviet Science

Glory to the Soviet man, the first cosmonaut!

"The sky was examined inside and out. No angels or Gods were found."

Soviet space propaganda poster.

"Sons of October, pioneers of the universe!"

Soviet space propaganda poster.

This week I learned that sunsets on Mars are blue (contrasting with the sky during the day, which is pink-yellow-brown). It seems to be due to the exact size and composition of Martian dust particles, which scatter red light in many directions while changing the direction of blue light very little.