I’m totally blown away after seeing this high-definition video of the moon’s surface, taken from the Japanese “Kaguya” probe. It’s balls-out fucking jaw-droppingly sweet. The detail is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Stop a moment and take a few minutes to check it out. It’s worth the time. If the above link to the hi-def video fails to work, either by overload (at this moment, the film’s been /.’d) or take-down, there’s a extremely poor youtube version that has unfortunately been over-compressed and lost most of it’s better details.

I like to keep shit interplanetary and ever since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated with the surface photos of Mars. This morning, I find myself apeshit-agog at the largest Mars image repository I have ever seen or heard of that’s publically accessible. 1.7 terabytes—over 1,100 high resolution images and counting, each averaging a gigabyte in size! There’s a nifty gallery viewer, offering up several down-sized versions of images so you can browse to your heart’s content. Each image has it’s own description and relevant information. There’s even an RSS feed to keep you in the loop as new photos are added to the database. Awesome. It’s a great way to kill a few hours, geeking out or looking for that sweet alien desktop wallpaper you know you must have in order to concentrate properly.

Check out this image of what’s thought to be a cavern entrance or sinkhole in an immense lava plain. Fucking unreal. Fucking interplanetary—just the way I like it.