Paul Byrneさんのイラストまとめ

Awesome shot of @relativityspace's Terran 1 rocket punching its way off the pad last night, its nine Aeon 1 methalox engines burning bright

Credit: Relativity Space

This is a gigantic storm at the very centre of the north pole of Saturn.

It's 1,600 km across—about the distance from Minneapolis to NYC.

📷:NASA/JPL/SSI/Kevin M. Gill (@kevinmgill)

This is a cyclone.

At the north pole of Saturn.

It's 2,000 km across, and the cloud tops move at 150 metres per second.

Venus.

In the infrared.

The lighter colours are the lower, ultra-hot atmosphere *glowing* beneath the cooler, higher cloud layer.

Image from @Akatsuki_JAXA, processed by @db_prods

Friends, it's now official.

The new @theNASEM Decadal Survey on Planetary Science and Astrobiology 2023–2032 will be publicly released on April 19.

More details when I can share them.

#Planetary2020

This. Is. Amazing.

NASA's #ParkerSolarProbe was able to image the surface of #Venus from space in a way we didn't think possible before!

Here, we can see the Aphrodite Terra highland *glowing* through the clouds (left), exactly where radar data tell us it should be (right)!

We're starting to get images of #Tonga following the #HungaTongaHungaHaapai eruption.

These are cropped images from @Maxar, via @evanhill, of Nukuʻalofa harbour on the biggest island Tongatapu.

There's evidence for tsunami damage but most buildings appear intact—if ash covered.

We still don't know how badly Tonga has been affected by the #HungaTongaHungaHaapai eruption, but these before-and-after images *of the exact same place* give us some idea of the explosion.

Left: @planet image taken Friday, Jan. 7.

Right: #Pléiades image taken Sunday, Jan. 16.

Left: the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano on Friday, January 7, 2022.

Right: the volcano on Friday, January 14, 2022.

The second image is from *before* the latest, massive eruption.

Both images were acquired from orbit by @planet.

A reminder that, now the sunshield has been fully deployed, #JWST actually looks more like this:

(Image credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/A. M. Gutierrez/P. Byrne)