Monday, October 10, 2011

Solar system graphic

This is a very impressive graphic showing the solar system. It's a big download for an image (20MB), and very, very long horizontally (30,000 pixels!), so it looks odd in the browser until you zoom in on it.
Here's a detail:


4 comments:

TC [Girl] said...

This reminds me of the imagery in 'The Tree of Life.' Keep forgetting to mention it. I think you might enjoy it, Eo.

Bruce W. said...

I like the space station. I think it is the one from "2001 A Space Odyssey"

Miserere said...

I get an error when I try to see it; says the "image couldn't be displayed because it contains errors".

:-(

Miserere said...

However...I was able to download the file from Wikipedia, though Windows picture viewer refused to show it at full resolution. ACDSee 8 had no such issues :-)

So, cool pic, though it seems to depict the Sun as some powerful monster trying to melt Mercury and Venus :-)

Like Bruce, I also loved seeing Stanley Kubrick's space station, which looks so much like the one we have now in 2011. Not!