Vidar Martinsen took successive photos of comet McNaught on January 9th, 2007, and animated it into this video. Comet McNaught is the brightest comet since 1975, and will reach perihelion on January 12th, 2007.
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just started sending back pictures of Mars. This zooms in on Victoria Crater; the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is visible.
A vertical hold-down engine test by Armadillo Aerospace. The neighbors complained, as well they should; even though the test was conducted in the middle of a 100-acre field, at the property line the sound level was 102 deciBels.
The Gen H-4 ultralight one-man helicopter costs $30 thousand and requires about 40 to 60 hours of assembly. Kits are available from http://www.acecraftu sa.com/
A 3D animation I put together in 2005. It shows a rocket landing on the moon and deploying a robot, which unfolds from 30cm across and 10cm high into something much bigger
The last ten seconds of countdown followed by the 41 second flight, ending with impact in the Pacific. Note the thermal blanket flapping about 30-33 seconds into the video; it was supposed to come off at launch. Also, about 36 seconds in you can see a jet of flame shooting out of the side of the rocket just before it goes out of control
A series of still shots of the launch os the space shuttle Atlantis on mission STS 117. Taken from Eastern Orlando, about 30 miles from the launch site. The images are shown for two seconds each, but that's probably a little fast, as I don't think my camera was taking pictures every two seconds.
Hover test of Armadillo's Pixel craft. The landing was slightly off to the side of where the bulk of the hover test was conducted; this is intentional, as the spot under the hover test had been exposed to a lot of heat over the course of the test
