The Most Amazing Space Photos This Week!
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The International Space Station welcomes a film crew, an Earth-observing satellite watches lava pour out from an active volcano at night and Cyclone Shaheen strikes the Arabian desert. These are some of the top photos this week from Space.com.
Perseverance appearing like a tiny marble
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this bird’s-eye view of the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover, which appears like a tiny white speck amidst the rolling hills of Earth’s neighboring planet. Perseverance is currently rolling through the landscape of South Séítah, which is filled with rocky ridges covered by sand dunes. The rover is currently scouting for rocks that it can drill into to obtain a sample.
Full story: Perseverance rover on Mars spotted from space in striking new satellite image
The International Space Station
Spacefarers indulged in a breathtaking view of the International Space Station as they readied the laboratory for a film crew.
Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky shared this photo of the orbiting laboratory on Sept. 29 via Twitter, after relocating a Russian Soyuz capsule alongside cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei. They moved the crew capsule to another docking port to make room for another Soyuz capsule carrying director Klim Shipenko, actor Yulia Peresild and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov up to the station. Shipenko and Peresild will film part of a Russian movie called “Challenge” on the station, then return to Earth on Oct. 16.
Full story: Cosmonaut photos show International Space Station from rare perspective
A vein of lava
The mesmerizing glow of this image comes from the river of lava that emanates from the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Island of La Palma. The Canary Islands are governed by Spain but are located off the coast of Africa, just south of Morocco.
In this view, taken by a Maxar Technologies satellite on Sept. 29, the heated material flows right to left towards the Atlantic Ocean. Just the lava is visible in this nighttime photo. The lava has already solidified to create a new peninsula that is currently larger than 25 soccer fields, according to a report from The Guardian.
Full story: Unstoppable lava from La Palma volcano eruption reaches ocean in stunning space photos
Film crew heads to space
The prime and backup crews for the Soyuz MS-19 mission to the International Space Station pose for a photo. From left to right are prime crewmembers Klim Shipenko, Yulia Peresild and Anton Shkaplerov; and the backup crewmembers are actor Alena Mordovina, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and cinematographer Alexey Dudin.
Shipenko, Peresild and Shkaplerov successfully reached the International Space Station on Tuesday (Oct. 5) to begin their 12-day shoot in space. — Space.com Staff
Full gallery: In photos: Russian film crew launching to the International Space Station
New images reveal scale of La Palma eruption
New satellite images of the Spanish island of La Palma reveal a broad swath of lava flowing down the flank of the erupting Cumbre Vieja volcano into the Atlantic Ocean where a new peninsula has formed since the lava reached the coast last week.
The images, taken on Thursday (Oct. 7) by satellites of U.S. Earth observation company Maxar Technologies, provide a natural-color view of the scene. The eruption, which started on Sept. 19, has already destroyed more than a thousand buildings. The European Copernicus Earth observation program reports that the sulfur dioxide plume from the volcano has already spread to the U.K. and is about to reach the Caribbean. — Tereza Pultarova
Ship tracks in the Pacific Ocean from space
A Weather forecasting satellite captures the formation of ship tracks in the atmosphere above the northern Pacific Ocean.
The false-color imagery, captured by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) West satellite operated by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Oct 5 and 6, reveals moving streaks above the ocean surface, which are caused by aerosol particles from the ship exhaust. These aerosol particles act as cloud condensation nuclei around which moisture from the atmosphere can condense. First observed in 1965, ship tracks help scientists study how human-made emissions affect the climate, which is difficult to study in polluted urban areas. — Tereza Pultarova
Cyclone dumps year’s worth of rain in Arabian desert
Coastal desert areas along the Gulf of Oman can be seen submerged in water after Cyclone Shaheen dumped a year’s worth of rain on the area earlier this week. The two images taken by the European Copernicus Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B satellites on Sept. 30 and Oct. 5 show the coast of Oman in the north-eastern parts of the Arabian Peninsula before and after the deluge.
Shaheen, the first cyclone in history to hit Oman originally formed above the Bay of Bengal as Cyclone Gulab and brought heavy rain to northeast India. It then disintegrated while crossing the Indian sub-continent only to reform again above the warm Arabian Sea. The revitalized tropical storm, renamed as Shaheen, then made landfall on Sunday (Oct. 3) near the town of al-Khaburah, west of Oman’s capital Muscat, accompanied by 150 km/h winds. — Tereza Pultarova
Russian actress headed to International Space Station
Russian actress Yulia Peresild strapped inside the Soyuz capsule shortly before the launch to the International Space Station on Tuesday at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT).
Peresild and movie director Klim Shipenko are the first professional filmmakers to visit the orbital outpost. During their two-week stay, they will film a movie called The Challenge. The film’s plot involves an astronaut getting a heart attack during a space walk and a surgeon being sent to the space station to perform emergency surgery before the stricken space farer could be returned to Earth. The two artists launched to the space station with veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket that was specially decorated for the movie. — Tereza Pultarova
Satellite watches first ever cyclone bring flash floods to Arabian desert
The first cyclone in history bringing flash floods to the desert-covered Arabian Peninsula is seen in this video captured by a European weather forecasting satellite. The cyclone, called Shaheen, originally formed above the Bay of Bengal as Cyclone Gulab and brought heavy rain to northeast India. It then disintegrated while crossing the sub-continent only to reform again above the warm Arabian Sea as Cyclone Shaheen.
The cyclone, captured in this video by the European Meteosat satellite, made landfall yesterday in North West Oman, bringing torrential rain and up to 93 mph (150 km/h) winds to the country’s capital Muscat, where it killed at least four people. The storm brought about 500 mm of rain in a few hours where usual annual rain averages amount to less than 100 mm per year. — Tereza Pultarova
Typhoon Mindulle looks pretty from space but is actually wreaking havoc in Japan
The creamy swirl of Typhoon Mindulle can be seen in this image taken by Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide from the International Space Station. Mindulle, also called Typhoon No. 16, brought strong winds and heavy rain to the Pacific coast of eastern Japan on Oct.1, causing disruption to airlines and train services, according to local media.
“Typhoon No. 16 approaches Japan. Everyone, please be careful,” Hoshide tweeted early in the morning on Friday. With sustained winds of nearly 75 mph (120 km/h) and gusts of up to 95 mph (150 km/h), Mindulle will move further to the north over the weekend and will continue affecting weather in the northeast of Japan in the upcoming days. — Tereza Pultarova
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