Julia Baier

Jupiter’s Galilean Moons

Io - Jupiter’s volcanic moon

Europa -  Jupiter’s icy moon

Ganymede - Jupiter’s (and the solar system’s) largest moon

Callisto -  Jupiter’s heavily cratered moon

Made using: Celestia, Screen2Gif & GIMP Based on: @spaceplasma‘s solar system gifs Profile sources: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets, http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/joviansatfact.html

Glenorchy, New Zealand // Chrystal Hutchinson

The World’s Smallest Snowman stands less than 3 microns tall.  The snowman was fabricated from three 0.9 micron silica spheres stacked with the use of electron beam lithography.  The eyes and mouth were cut with a focused ion beam while the arms and nose were sculpted with platinum.

Aurorae on Jupiter by NASA, ESA, Hubble

Switzerland // Hannes Becker

March 2, 1979 – Astonishing glimpses of planet Jupiter made by the Voyager 1 space probe. (NASA)

A photo of Saturn. Took by Cassini with COISS on May 08, 2005 at 19:13:54. Detail page on OPUS database.

On its last day, the Rosetta space probe captured this view of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from an altitude of about 16 kilometers above the surface during the spacecraft’s final descent on September 30, 2016.

(ESA)