NASA too celebrated Valentine's Day by tweeting a few photos captured from space.
NASA too celebrated Valentine's Day by tweeting a few photos captured from space that represents hearts and flowers. Take a look at five such photos which include a heart on Mars, roses on Saturn and Pluto and a spectacular rose made up of galaxies. (Image credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)- Flowers from Space: Zinnia plants from the Veggie ground control system are being harvested in the Flight Equipment Development Laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From left, are John Carver, an integration engineer with Jacobs on the Test and Operations Support Contract, and Chuck Spern, a project engineer with Vencore on the Engineering Services Contract. A similar zinnia harvest will be conducted by astronaut Scott Kelly on the International Space Station. (Image credit: NASA/Bill White)
- A 'Rose' Made of Galaxies: The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813. A swath of blue jewels across the top is the combined light from clusters of intensely bright and hot young blue stars. These massive stars glow fiercely in ultraviolet light. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team) (STScI/AURA)
- A 'Rose' Made of Galaxies: The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813. A swath of blue jewels across the top is the combined light from clusters of intensely bright and hot young blue stars. These massive stars glow fiercely in ultraviolet light. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team) (STScI/AURA)
- The Saturn Rose: The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-colour image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometres) across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 miles per hour (150 meters per second). (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI)
- A Pluto Heart: Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015 when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometres) from the surface. This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth before the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto on July 14. The heart borders darker equatorial terrains, and the mottled terrain to its east (right) are complex. However, even at this resolution, much of the heart's interior appears remarkably featurelesspossibly a sign of ongoing geologic processes. (Image credits: NASA/APL/SwRI)
NASA too celebrated Valentine’s Day by tweeting a few photos captured from space that represents hearts and flowers. Take a look at five such photos which include a heart on Mars, roses on Saturn and Pluto and a spectacular rose made up of galaxies. (Image credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
NASA too celebrated Valentine's Day by tweeting a few photos captured from space.
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