NASA has impressively restoreD to unbeatable resolution the first image of Earth as seen from space, taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 while orbiting the moon in 1966.
The restoration to high resolution proyect was a quarter million dollars worth.
Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies.
Its time to grab a good companion and do some eastern sky sight-spin to watch the annual cosmoaesthetics parade of the Persaid meteor shower. Get away from city lights, enjoy galactic nightlife, this night there´ll be lots of wonders above us.
The legendary pop singer Madonna has announced she will travel to the moon, after paying 200,000 dollars for a ticket. The music Diva said she wants to go "to forget for a while all of my problems". Madonna has been recently troubled by the rumors of her imminent divorce to filmmaker Guy Ritchie and by the publication of a book by her brother Cristopher Siccone where some of the stars deepest intimacys are revealed.
The spacecraft that will take Madonna on her moon-ride, will be SpaceShip Two, owned by the intrepid millionaire Richard Branson, who recently unveiled the mothership his company Virgin Glactic will use to launch tourists into space. Even though the trips to the the moon for "common" tourists will begin in 2013, an exception will be made in the case of the Queen of Pop, and she will be able to reach the moon in 2009.
Recent photos have showed Madonna in a discouraged state, in evident depression. But her never winding spirit has made her take radical decisions to counterattack her emotional gloom, this way she has appointed refreshingly her moon-ride as a n opportunity to relax and meditate with on her problems with the aid of the cosmic views.
NASA has impressively restoreD to unbeatable resolution the first image of Earth as seen from space, taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 while orbiting the moon in 1966.
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