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Planetary Picture of the Day - Week of February 6, 2023

Planetary Picture of the Day - Week of February 6, 2023

Feb 13, 2023
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Planetary Picture of the Day
Week of February 6, 2023

Welcome to our weekly recap of our Planetary Picture of the Day (PPOD)!
Martian Clouds, the Himalayas from Space, Milky Way Rising and other amazing sites.

 

Monday, February 6, 2023

Thin wispy white clouds agains a dusty Martian sky.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson
Thin wipsy white clouds agains a dusty Martian sky.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson

Martian Clouds
Beautiful clouds in the martian sky, as seen by the Mars Curiosity rover at Gale crater.

 

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

The expanse of the Himalayas rises above India to the right, covered in clouds, and the Tibetan plain to the left. Mt. Everest is near the middle, just to the left of center.
Credit: NASA

Himalayas from Space
On Feb. 1, the International Space Station captured this magnificent view looking east along the Himalayas while 413 km above northern India (Uttar Pradesh). Mount Everest is visible just above and to the left of center.

 

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

A detailed view of the Milky Way rises above an icy lake and snow capped mountains.
Credit: K Chay Photography

Milky Way Rising
Photographer Kavan Chay took the foreground photo in October 2022 while hiking the Hooker Hut route in New Zealand's Aoraki National Park. The expanse of the Milky Way was processed and added using an older image that stitched together 60 individual images of the night sky. The combination created this stunning composite image.

 

Thursday, February 9, 2023

A galaxy known as 'Tadpole' starts in the upper left as a spiral with a long diffuse tail that wraps around and trails all the way down to the bottom right of the image, disturbed by the passage of an unseen galaxy.
Credit: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI

Tadpole Galaxy by Hubble
The Tadpole Galaxy, also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, has an eye-catching tail that is about 280,000 light-years long. The galaxy is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco.

 

Friday, February 10, 2023

Mount Rainier volcano casts a long shadow on the underside of a sunrise cloud deck over a quiet neighborhood in Washington state.
Credit: Lisa Bishop

Mount Rainier Shadow
Mount Rainier in Washinton state is 4,392 meters tall, the tallest volcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc. During a recent sunrise, the volcano cast its shadow on the rather low altitude cloud deck over Puyallup, Washington. Photograper Lisa Bishop captured the moment in this gorgeous image.

 

 

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