Don Davis
ddavisspaceart.bsky.social
Don Davis
@ddavisspaceart.bsky.social
Space Artist, sky observer and photographer. Processor of space images. Interested in Astronomy, Planetary Geology, history and in what the future may bring.
Unfortunately the paper cited in the article is behind a paywall. I think it is in the public interest to allow the free flow of important information like how to help counter FE mind rot.
The 'Young Earth' movement is also largely religiously inspired and should receive educational attention.
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Astronomy, down to the pointing of worldwide telescopes to counter Earths rotation, is one science that utterly destroys FE beliefs. Of course the space photos of Earth exist, however the belief in FE requires claiming all spaceflight is fake. FE implies a willful ignorance of our knowledge base.
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Intriguing. I captured this apparent airglow color banding the morning of Oct 27th looking North from Joshua Tree, at 34 deg. N. The entire sky visually appeared to have an added faint luminosity as if there was an even thin cloud layer.
October 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I do, they will appear in a book that I hope to one day have of my art.
October 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Yes you may use it, with attribution and © notice.
October 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It was our first goal as a new world to visit, its study has opened up the early history of the Solar System. Rocks brought back take up the geologic record in the early eras where Earth's related record is erased, and from similarities in other worlds we were given new insights into those places.
October 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Sure, and leave the Moon for China, India etc.
October 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Thanks! As an artist I occasionally address camera limitations manually.
September 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I like that idea, I hope they would use them to drop landers and rovers to the surface. Venus surface exploration has been neglected compared to that of Mars.
September 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The thin Martian atmosphere extends higher than does Earths due to the lower gravity. Various spacecraft have photographed high thin layers of clouds particularly over the wintertime poles. Here is an example from the European Mars Express orbiter.
September 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Primarily Co2. They are quite high, at 37 to 50 miles (60 to 80 kilometers)
September 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This one has quite a 'painterly' look to it.
September 29, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Great photos! Having it pass near the Moon from our perspectives was an added treat!
September 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Ideally such art should be photographed with two studio lights with pola filters and one filter on the camera, all turned to suppress specular reflection.
September 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Chesley Bonestell told me he painted with some extra contrast because the printing process tended to 'gray down' the art.
September 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Probably not. Different camera systems will handle color balance etc. differently.
September 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
There would be little benefit to trying, although I did improvise some of that process by adding in the indirectly lit shaded sides of the mountains, which do show in other photos. The Moon's landscape is inherently very contrasty with a black sky except for the Sun and the Earth.
September 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM