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An Io-like moon is kept warm by tidal heating in orbit around a T-class brown dwarf with a red star in the background.
Great space scene by "Iris Celestialis".
#space #art
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On March 31, 2005, just minutes after the Cassini spacecraft's closest approach to Titan during the Titan (T-4) Flyby, Cassini viewed Saturn peeking through Titan's thick atmosphere. Saturn's rings are seen here casting dark, dramatic shadows across the planet's northern disk (upper left). This composite is made of images that were taken by the Cassini spacecraft's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on March 31, 2005 and received on Earth April 1, 2005. Cassini was approximately 1,200,000 km away from Saturn and 7,000 km away from Titan. The images were taken using red, green, and blue filters. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Ian Regan / Val Klavans

Saturn through Titan's haze - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/TbspjU

Download full size image here: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54375128834/sizes/o/ (See licence below) Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Check out the original with the martian background distorted here: flic.kr/p/2ogpjSY. The camera scanning the satellite caused the original view of the Martian surface to appear stretched as it moved by. Colourised image created using data processed from archives.esac.esa.int/psa Mission: ESA Mars Express Orbit 22608 Instrument: HRSC Time: 2021-11-22 22:51 Product IDs: HM608_0000_BL3 HM608_0000_ND3 Notes: Colourised image created using data processed from: psa.esa.int. This is a single shot on HM608_0000_BL3, not a composite image, although the background has been resized to reduce distortion (see above original) and the details on Phobos are merged with the second filter HM608_0000_ND3, shot during the same observation. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Phobos over Mars - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qQWKph

2011-JAN-31 Cassini NAC (IR-GRN-UV).

Mimas and the Rings (REDUX 2022) - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/9fBGsk

Assembled from raw uncalibrated infrared, green, and ultraviolet filtered images (IR3, GRN, UV3). NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill

Dione - November 26 2016 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/PvNdqa

Cassini NAC.

2016-03-16 Saturn RGB - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/FhRsdC

The most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too!

#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug

(Me with over 150,000 words of written sci-fi and almost non of it shared with anyone anywhere)

Man, looking back on what I missed on Spaceshiptember… all the ideas I had for “ruins”

[LANCER: Abundance Cascade]

Following multiple nanite outbreaks in Erhuu System the Union Science Bureau TF pressed their small fleet of survey and research craft into service as ad-hoc scouting and electronic warfare vessels

USBS "To Be Determined" was originally built as a radio-observatory ship

Cassini NAC natural color view taken on 2011-04-25 19:34 UTC.

Distance to Rhea: 2.23 million km
Distance to Dione: 3.12 million km
Distance to Enceladus: 2.98 million km
Distance to Saturn: 2.75 million km
Phase angle: 67 deg

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Refueling over Jupiter.
This depot in LJO would have to be heavily shielded but is well situated to maximize the Oberth boost of any departing spacecraft.
#space #art by Emrys Ryan.
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A lighthugger at cruise

Ergo drive accelerating

Ergo drive eclipsing a star, accelerating

A lighthugger at cruise

Subluminal Saturday

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EVA specialists traverse a ravine on Enceladus using tethers and lines. A less fortunate explorer rests at the base of the ravine.

“The fact is you COULD jump it… but protocol exists for a reason. Don’t look down.”

(Lost Souls of Sol, 3/?)
#hibourverse #space #scifi

An erakker of the Bysphere Vipretta conducts a rare live fire test.

A warcraft conducts a live fire demonstration during a close Miranda flyby. This is a political show of force, designed to intimidate the Republic of Miranda.

An ergo drive makes a desperate last stand at the edge of the Milky Way, preparing for a head on pass with her adversary. Two of her companions are already destroyed, their clouds of atoms expanding in the distance. A lone exoplanet bakes with the massive energy being unleashed.

A rogue craft makes a last ditch burn to avoid plunging into Saturn’s rings, putting itself right in the crosshairs of a pursuing spacecraft.

Fire-at-will Friday

#hibourverse #spacecraft #space

Photograph of the far side of the Moon, focusing on a large crater called Daedalus, which is surrounded by a rough terrain full of smaller craters.

#PPOD: This image of the crater Daedalus, with a diameter of about 80 kilometers, on the Moon's far side was taken by the Apollo 11 crew while in orbit around the Moon in 1969. The Moon’s far side is rugged and densely cratered, while the near side is comparatively smooth. Credit: NASA 🧪 🔭

Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan

2015-287 Enceladus Snowman IR-GRN-UV -- C - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/NPYY9p

A Rhean warcraft accelerates over Saturn

A competition space fighter accelerates towards a target

Titanian frakters burn to make an intercept

A beam riding freighter accelerates in the Saturnian system.

Thrust Thursday

#hibourverse #spaceship #scifi

Mars - Syrtis Major, Jezero Crater (Mars 2020: Perseverance and Ingenuity), Isidis Planitia - Hope Mission Orbit 21 Click here to find Perseverance: twitter.com/andrluck/status/1509069937360392193?s=20&... ©UAESA/MBRSC/HopeMarsMission/EXI/AndreaLuck ----------------------------- Filters: f635+f546+f437 Spacecraft altitude: 4194 km Timetag 2021-03-11 Raw Data from: sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae/ ---------------------------------- ©UAESA/MBRSC/HopeMarsMission/EXI/AndreaLuck Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Mars - Syrtis Major, Jezero Crater (Perseverance Landing Site), Isidis Planitia - Hope Mission Orbit 21 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2nbpFin

Post your grunts!

(Few days behind on this, but I actually have something to share for once!)

happy signalis day to all who celebrate

Gisha floats in a spaceport terminal

Workers on a Saturnian moonlet

A cargo tender loads near a fusion-propelled interplanetary spacecraft

A rescue shuttle approached a city over an asteroid

Weightless Wednesday

#hibourverse #space #scifi

Harpsai. Recognized by bluish pigmentation, colorless hair, mustard tinted eyes and “high ears”

Kees (Kenko Evolved). Recognizable by their pale complexion, pinkish hair colors, opaque eyes and small nerve receptors that extend out of the back of the neck when agitated or stressed.

Eppli Si, a Mel’Valae ecologist. Mel’Valae are easily recognized by their grey-bluish tones and bat-like features (bats, of course, having gone extinct with the loss of Earth).

Hermes, most recognized by bright yellow skin pigmentation, opaque eyes and dark facial spots.

Transhuman Tuesday

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#hibourverse #illustration #scifi

Maris Monday! Start your week off with some space nuns.

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Gisha's "Active Enforcement" kit. The kit is based around one or two extendable destabilizers (charge clobbers), which are effectively tasers that tend to put cybernetic augments into hard reset.... and hurt a lot.

Gisha on port duty. Her real leather bomber jacket is one of her most prized garments.

"Wine mom" mode

A breakout of some of Gisha's augmentation. Excluding the prosthetic right arm, Gisha has an average level of cybernetic integration. Most of her augments, especially those in her head, would be considered common. Many of the others are common to soldiers or other physically demanding jobs. Anything coded with a "BS" involves biosynth, which is to say that her body was programmed to grow some portion of the augment, rather than install it surgically.

The Hibourverse *scifi tough gal* Gisha Hiara, an ex-Ganymedian soldier turned Space Security Guild enforcer. She's a somewhat recent immigrant to Vesta. One like: Coffee, even the crappy instant stuff she can make in the shuttle. One dislike: Anti-Jovian prejudice.

#hibourverse #illustration

Various transhumans and their somnoptic (augmented reality) projections

A variety of outfits and somnoptic projections.

#hibourverse

Port Clemmons of the First Light Federation, Mercury sphere.

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#hibourverse #illustration #space

Need to do more lineups

The lighthugger Nostalgia for Infinity orbits Yellowstone and the rust belt. A scene from Revelation Space, by Alastair Reynolds

Nostalgia for Infinity over Yellowstone.

Need some Revelation Space art over here on Bsky

#revelationspace #alastairreynolds #space #scifi