Solar Transit of Atlantis

[St. Squigolas]

I advise you all to look directly into the sun.

Atlantis before Hubble capture.

Seriously. Go out and stare at the sun. DO IT DO IT DO IT!!! It'll be like watching Star Trek .

Here they are.

 

[MANT!]

Great..Now I gotta use a Braille keyboard...

 

[Gepard]

Since when was the sun a spray-painted Styrofoam ball?

 

[St. Squigolas]

Nero's attack changed everything.

 

[Mark de Vries]

Ignore the toad...

It's still a great series of photos!

 

[St. Squigolas]

Seriously though. When you filter the ever living hell our of the sun - I mean down to the point where you're pretty much shooting it from inside a welder's mask - that's what it's looks like.

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Look OUT!!!!

The shuttle's gonna have to pull the Corbomite Manuver!!!

 

[trampledamage]

Wonderful pictures - thank you

 

[RevDMV]

Nice shots, where did you come by them?

 

[St. Squigolas]

A facebook buddy of mine is the NASA photographer and had them on his page.

 

[Gepard]

Seriously though. When you filter the ever living hell our of the sun - I mean down to the point where you're pretty much shooting it from inside a welder's mask - that's what it's looks like.

I didn't know our sun was a urine-type main sequence star.

Learn something new every day.

 

[Meredith]

Dang, I thought hey were kidding about the lack of sunspots, we might just be heading for a minimum period of activity from the sun.

Cool Pic!


Next let's photo shop a silhouette of the new Trek Movie Enterprise and DS9 over the top of it!

 

[trekkiedane]

Next let's photo shop a silhouette of the new Trek Movie Enterprise and DS9 over the top of it!

Sure, the moment we get some reliable numbers on just how big it is...

 

[Brent]

Dang, I thought hey were kidding about the lack of sunspots, we might just be heading for a minimum period of activity from the sun.

Cool Pic!


Next let's photo shop a silhouette of the new Trek Movie Enterprise and DS9 over the top of it!

Until we get to 2012 at least, Solar Maximum baby.

 

[Daedalus12]

A facebook buddy of mine is the NASA photographer and had them on his page.

For a moment I thought you got those directly from the STSCI guys. I saw those same pictures today in a presentation on the Hubble Telescope by STSCI's Dr. Frank Summers at a theater here in NASA Langley.

 

[T'Grinch]

Impressive!

 

[Alpha_Geek]

"Shuttle crew encounters massive alien craft, enjoys tranya."

 

[oponda2009]

In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit.