A New View Of The Solar System
Jovian Moon In January 2001, Cassini swept past Jupiter en route to Saturn. As it did, scientists directed the unmanned craft to take a series of photos, some of which captured the transit of the volcanic moon Io at Jupiter's limb. Benson combined 27 frames into nine composites, which he then stitched together. Michael BensonMichael Benson combines images from space to make art. Michael Benson has created God's own view of the universe. To make the images on display in his upcoming book, Planetfall, Benson first combed through the tens of thousands of photographs publicly available from NASA and the European Space Agency. Most of his selections came from unmanned spacecraft hurtling through space, while some came from rovers on Mars or crewmembers aboard the International Space Station. Click here to enter the gallery He then processed the raw files and stitched them together into mosaics that tell a particular story-the Milky...