Michael Benson's Planetfall
 

Here is an amazing gallery just released by Michael Benson, that specializes in upscaling and enhancing nasa's photos to make them look visually stunning, if anyone is interested.

LINK: beyond the unknown

http://www.themorningnews.org/images...11_890_890.jpg

Conclusion: The moon is made out of cheese.

Lol, this is the Galilean moom "Lo" that orbits Jupiter. Not sure why its yellow, never looked into it... That could be a possibility XD?

Another one of Enceladus that is not in the gallery [warning ultra HD]: http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012...77ce8dbc07.jpg

It's "Io", or "io" lowercase, not "Lo" :P It's the most geologically active object in the Solar System, even more so than Earth. The blue stuff you see coming out from the planet are actually massive plumes from volcanoes. It's yellow because of all the sulfur, however the guy who "upscaled" it seems to have cranked up the contrast and made the colors much more vibrant.

The second one looks like Europa, another moon of Jupiter. But I'm not entirely sure.

One thing you guys should know is that NASA(which tends to be the guys who obtains these images) value data over visuals. The colors in their images tend to not reflect visual spectrum and instead are colors assigned to the various spectra of data obtained. So while these planet/moon images may be somewhat reflective of what we'd actually see looking at them many things like the Nebulae and deep space images tend to not really reflect what we'd see looking out into space(and in fact most of it is invisible to our eyes).

I hate arial font. A lowercase "L" Looks exactly like a capitol "I". It can get confusing sometimes. Thats interesting though, thanks for the clarification! :D

first pic looks like a very round potato, and someone was drawing stuff on Lo