Earth’s Siblings: Inside The Planets
Click each for a neat and informative view of the neighboring planets in our Solar System.
via SPACE
This is a really great photoset. On a more personal note… The last year or two has been filled with more vivid and memorable dreams to me than ever before. (Related: I really need to get back to writing them down, because there have been several poignant situations that I think would be fun to recollect later, and they always always fade with time.)
The most powerful dream I had came at the beginning of all this happening. After this dream, it seemed the others were all noticeably different: I no longer recall the setup, because it was unimportant. But from this dream onward, I was frequently able to fly in my dreams without thinking it odd in the slightest. Often I wake up thinking back on how I seemed to just know “This is okay, I’ve done it before,” yet I never connected that I was dreaming.
But it really started with a dream about flying through space, through the solar system. It may not be normal, but I’ve always been fascinated, awed, and a little terrified at the concept of how effing huge the gas giants are. In this dream, I actually woke up because I was flying toward Saturn, which looked spot-on like a Cassini photo of course, and after a moment of admiring its beauty I considered “Well you know, the idea of looking at a planet like this has always been FUCKING TERRIFYING” and so I woke up shortly after I started to panic that I would get sucked down into its atmosphere.
Flying in space without a spacesuit? Not scary, in my dream. Considering getting sucked into a gas giant? Extremely, mind-blowingly terrifying. When I woke up I was immediately thankful I didn’t see Jupiter. But now the mental image is ingrained - accurate or not, it surely can’t be that inaccurate if it looked just like a Cassini picture and was in the black void of space - and sometimes I find myself marveling at that planet, awed. This is all relevant if you note how ridiculously tiny Earth is in comparison in the above pictures.
(via uraniaproject)
