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      The Best of NASA’s Planet Porn

      Outta This World

      Need some space? NASA’s got you.

      Elizabeth Hunt Brockway

      Elizabeth Hunt Brockway

      Editorial Visual Director

      Updated Nov. 11, 2017 12:02AM EST / Published Nov. 10, 2017 9:00PM EST 

      “To infinity and beyond!”

      For NASA, these words earnestly spoken by Buzz Lightyear (and echoed by many children and parents since) are more than a plastic toy’s ironic catchphrase from Toy Story; instead, they define its purpose.

      A new book, The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA, offers those of us unable to physically explore the final frontier a chance to see beyond our planet. The tome gives a glimpse of what lies outside the familiar bounds of Earth through photographs taken over the past half century of space exploration—and a forward written by Bill Nye (the Science Guy!).

      While there are some photographs in the collection that portray the planets as we may have seen before, many of the highlights capture pieces of our solar system that seem more like art than fragments of our universe still out of reach of human touch.

      Referring to the now-iconic photograph of Earth, Pale Blue Dot, celebrated astronomer Carl Sagan once wrote, “There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.” With more than 200 striking images, The Planets offers the same poignancy Sagan described, through a brief respite from life on Earth.

      With that, here’s some space:

      Mercury’s Volcanic Plains

      Sif Mons

      Great Salt Desert

      Moonset

      Earthrise: Updated

      Martian Dust Devil

      Mars’s Viscous Flow Features

      Europa

      Approaching Winter in the Southern Hemisphere of Saturn

      The Moons of Saturn: Janus, Pandora, and Enceladus

      Dione and Enceladus

      A Pair of Rings

      Neptune’s Outermost Ring

      Sputnik Planum

      Sputnik Planum

      A Comet Illuminated in Space

      Photos and captions courtesy of The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA by Nirmala Nataraj, published by Chronicle Books 2017.

      Elizabeth Hunt Brockway

      Elizabeth Hunt Brockway

      Editorial Visual Director

      @theebrockwayelizabeth.brockway@thedailybeast.com

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