{"id":842,"date":"2016-01-27T08:35:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T08:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2016-01-27T08:37:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T08:37:33","slug":"otherworlds-and-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/27\/otherworlds-and-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Otherworlds, and other things"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ground
Ground fog in Valles Marineris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A few days ago I went to the Natural History Museum’s Otherworlds exhibition<\/a>. This turned out to be well worth the trip – not very large in extent, but beautifully put together, and the ample space in the hall to walk around and look at the pictures helped a lot. The pictures attached here are my own, taken as I walked around, and so nothing like the clarity and resolution of the real ones.<\/p>\n

The arrangement was by planet, starting with Earth and Moon, then taking in the inner solar system planets of Mercury and Venus – together with some spectacular images of the Sun itself – and then heading progressively outwards past Mars and Jupiter, ending with Pluto.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, Mars and Jupiter came out best in the gallery as a whole, The Sun pictures were striking, but one suspects that those two planets – and Saturn to a lesser extent, mainly focusing on the rings – were the collator’s preferred choice.<\/p>\n

\"Phobos
Phobos over the Herschel Impact Basin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was particularly interested in this picture of Mars’ moon Phobos – the dark object to the right of the picture – as it will feature in the successor to Far from the Spaceports.<\/p>\n

\"Asteroid
Asteroid Lutetia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But asteroid pictures were\u00a0thin on the ground, and some of what was there were taken of so-called earth-grazing bodies, meaning that they do not orbit between Mars and Jupiter, but instead have a rather eccentric orbit swinging well inside that of Mars. This particular image is of Lutetia, taken by ESA’s Rosetta probe as \u00a0it headed towards its rendezvous with a comet. There were no pictures out of the many sent back by the Dawn probe from Ceres and Vesta, which I found a little disappointing.<\/p>\n

The really outer planets – Uranus, Neptune, and dwarf Pluto, got just one picture each, again a bit surprising with Pluto considering all that has been coming back from New Horizons. But\u00a0the choice was a fine one to conclude the show, and neatly established a basic similarity between the familiar – Earth – and the unknown.<\/p>\n

All in all a great exhibition, and well worth catching up on if it makes its way to a location near you.<\/p>\n

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