Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the solar system, the 72,000-foot-tall Olympus Mons:
There's a bunch of trash left by humans on the moon. In fact, if you really want to know, there are 96 bags of human waste on that big pie in the sky:
Here's a computer illustration of what Olympus Mons looks like from space:
This is what Antarctica looks like from space:
This is Eugene Cernan, who is, as of 2023, the last man to ever walk on the moon:
He did it way back in 1972. It's been that long, folks!
You might recognize Eugene from this iconic picture of his moon walk:
This is the Willamette meteorite, the largest meteorite that's ever been found in the United States:
It is the sixth largest in the world and weighs 15.5 tons.
And this is the Hoba meteorite, the largest meteorite on Earth:
The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is shrinking:
According to NASA, "Some unknown activity in the planet's atmosphere may be draining energy and weakening the storm, causing it to shrink."
See that little hole there? This is what Mount Vesuvius looks like from space:
Way out on the edge of the Solar System is this big ol' hunk of rock called Ultima Thule, Arrokoth, or (486958) 2014 MU69 — the farthest thing from Earth humanity has ever "explored up close":
In 2018, NASA captured an unreal-looking rectangular iceberg:
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just took some brand-new pictures of Uranus. Here's what one of the new photos looks like:
While we're at it, here's another new picture from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, this time of Neptune:
This, to scale, is how far apart the Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy are:
FYI, the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across.
This is a close-up of some well-worn pebbles on the surface of Mars:
Speaking of Mars, this is what a sunset looks like on that there planet:
This is what the moon looks like in the Northern Hemisphere...
...and this is what the moon looks like in the Southern Hemisphere. It's upside down:
This is what Jupiter would look like if it were as close as the moon:
This is what Ireland looks like from space:
This is astronaut Joseph P. Allen IV doing maintenance on a satellite in the middle of the cold, dark void of space:
This is what the eye of a hurricane looks like from above:
This is the last image NASA's InSight rover sent from Mars before running out of power at the end of its mission last December:
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Human evolution is reversing. We need the monoliths back on earth.
Warning the Americans to stay away from Europe. Attempt no landings there.
uh, refering to #13