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Joint Europe-Japan Space Mission Captures Its First Flyby Photos of Mercury

A pair of linked orbiters known together as BepiColombo passed within 124 miles (199 km) of the planet’s surface.

A NASA Spacecraft Will Slingshot Past Earth Today

Right now, NASA’s Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security – Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is hurtling through the void in order to link up with an asteroid named Bennu in 2018. While the intrepid spacecraft still has a way to go until its big rendezvous, today it’ll casually fly by Earth. Unfortunately, it poses no…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta Sep 22

Filmmaker Painstakingly Crafts One of the Best Looks at Mars Ever

Over the course of 12 years, the HiRISE camera has been photographing the Red Planet inch-by-inch from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Around 50,000 still images have been taken and anyone can check out hi-res stereo versions online. A Finnish filmmaker has spent three months converting the photos into a short video that allows us to…

Tech News Rhett Jones Mar 20

New Close-Up Image of Jupiter’s South Pole is Mind-Blowingly Beautiful

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has once again delivered stunning images of Jupiter, this time giving us a glimpse at the gas giant’s south pole. The image, taken from Juno’s most recent flyby on February 2nd, was captured at an altitude 63,400 miles. While there aren’t any Jovian penguins on this south pole (that we know of),…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta Feb 9

Watch a Totally Crazy Low Pass Flyby and Aileron Roll from Inside a MiG-21 Cockpit

The Libyan Air Force sure loves pulling wild stunts from inside its MiG fighter jets. This time we get to see the perspective of an insane low pass—and the plane flies so low that you’d think it was trying to land and touch down on the ground—from inside the cockpit. It’s a crazy new angle…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 19

Watch an Airbus A380 Abort a Landing When It’s Incredibly Close to the Ground

Here’s a British Airways Airbus A380 attempting to land at the Vancouver airport. You can see the world’s largest passenger airplane make its final approach and come so, so close to the ground—but then decide to abort and make a go-around instead. It’s crazy impressive to see such a big plane make a maneuver like…

Sploid Casey Chan May 16

Japanese Spacecraft Reveals Our Home is a Lonely Outpost in the Darkness

Our home planet and its moon are but specks against the vast blackness of space in this image from the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2. The robotic explorer is currently flying past the Earth to redirect its trajectory into the main asteroid belt. The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft launched in December 2014, and is currently approaching the…

Space & Spaceflight Mika McKinnon Dec 2

Cargo plane makes a crazy low pass over fighter jets at an air base

Here’s a role reversal of sorts: an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane does a low pass right over some SU-25 fighter jets on a Ukrainian air field. Seeing the big boy plane delicately flying close to the ground over the nimble little planes makes for a pretty hilarious visual. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 29

This is Exactly What New Horizons saw Zipping by Pluto

When the New Horizons spacecraft raced past Pluto this summer, it constantly snapped photographs both coming and going. This is exactly what it saw while zooming past the frozen dwarf planet. Whoa. We’ve seen fan-art of what the probe might have seen in a simulation interpolated from public image releases. But now NASA is providing…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Aug 31

What a flyover of the surface of Mars would look like

The ESA put together this rendered flyover video of Mars (from images taken from the Mars Express) and we can see the craters and cliffs and canyons that pockmark the red planet as if we we were actually flying by and poking our head out the window. It’s all the same drab and dusty color…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 11

The most insane airplane low pass yet

If you were standing up straight, your head would be clipped off from this low pass from a fighter jet. That’s how close this Libyan MiG-23 is flying to the ground. The flyby is terrifyingly low and ridiculously fast and it is completely wild, especially considering how Libya only has a smattering of these jets…

Sploid Casey Chan Jul 10

I’ll never get tired of breathtaking flyby videos of Earth from space

I can’t even begin to imagine how incredible it must be to be an astronaut and see Earth from space like this. It can’t ever get old, right? I mean, I’m amazed every time I see one of these flyby videos and I’m just watching on YouTube. This one, which uses footage from NASA’s Johnson…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 9

Flying man in wingsuit comes close to crashing into Rio’s Jesus statue

A good policy on all wingsuit jumps is to never crash into anything. A secondary policy to follow would be if you do crash into something, make sure it’s soft and not Rio de Janeiro’s 125-foot tall Christ the Redeemer statue. Jesus Christ may be forgiving but his statue made of 635 metric tons of…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 25

Flying man in wingsuit flies deathly close to the ground like Superman

He’s Superman. Actually, I take it back. I don’t even think Superman would fly this impossibly close to the ground because it’s just ridiculous. Insane, really. That didn’t stop wingsuit pilot Brian Drake from zipping mere feet from the ground though. Look at him tear through the gully and marvel at death being defied. So…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 18

NASA Captures Unprecedented View of Moon Orbiting Earth

On October 9th, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made a close pass of Earth on its way to Jupiter. The flyby, which helped boost Juno’s speed by almost 9,000 miles-per-hour, was captured from the spacecraft’s perspective by a low-res camera optimized to track faint stars, giving us a never-before-seen view of the moon orbiting Earth. “If Captain…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 12

Watch This Crazy Hercules Airplane Flying Just Five Meters Above the Ground (Update 2)

Crazy jet fighter pilots: CHECK! Crazy bomber pilots: CHECK! Crazy airliner pilots: CHECK! Crazy military transport pilots: Watch this crazy pilot flying this Swedish Air Force’ Hercules C-130 as low as five meters and just over the head of his colleagues. https://gizmodo.com/the-craziest-low-pass-flyby-ive-ever-seen-updated-5808599 Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet says the pilot who flew the Hercules declared that “it…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 18

New B-52 Low Flyby Photo Demonstrates That Bomber Pilots Are Absolutely Nuts Too

Remember that insane low pass flyby for that B-52 Stratofortress next to the carrier USS Ranger. Gizmodo Reader and retired US Air Force master sergeant has sent us the look from the ship. It’s pretty bloody stunning: https://gizmodo.com/is-this-insane-low-pass-flyby-the-craziest-thing-youre-5893585 Here’s what that low pass looked like from on board the squid’s boat. If you’ll note, you…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 18

Is This Insane Low Pass Flyby the Craziest Thing You’re Going To See Today? Most Probably Yes

I thought this was the craziest low pass flyby ever, but obviously I was mistaken. After all, what you’re seeing here is not a small fighter jet but a B-52 Stratofortress almost kissing the sea while flying by USS Ranger aircraft carrier. https://gizmodo.com/the-craziest-low-pass-flyby-ive-ever-seen-updated-5808599 Look at the size of that thing and its altitude. That beast…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 15

Slo-Mo Flybys, Big Guys Jumping Little Guys, and Some Smashing Pumpkins

Roll that spliff phatly, pack some fresh ice into the binger, and set the Volcano to “toastify.” It’s time for Gizmodo’s newest feature, The Stoner Channel. We’ve collected our best high-times material for the discerning pothead so sit back, relax, and pass that shit to the left, yo. Click here for more hits from the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 3

This Fluid Fly-By Video Is the Most Astonishing View of Earth I’ve Ever Seen

This weekend NASA published an awesome time-lapse flyby of planet Earth taken from the International Space Station. Awesome, but jerky—until now. Someone interpolated the original frames to achieve this smooth as silk motion film. It’ll leave you stupefied. Probably created with the magical Twixtor, the new video runs at 30 frames-per-second. Check out the lightning…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Sep 21

Joint Europe-Japan Space Mission Captures Its First Flyby Photos of Mercury

A NASA Spacecraft Will Slingshot Past Earth Today

Filmmaker Painstakingly Crafts One of the Best Looks at Mars Ever

New Close-Up Image of Jupiter’s South Pole is Mind-Blowingly Beautiful

Watch a Totally Crazy Low Pass Flyby and Aileron Roll from Inside a MiG-21 Cockpit

Watch an Airbus A380 Abort a Landing When It’s Incredibly Close to the Ground

Japanese Spacecraft Reveals Our Home is a Lonely Outpost in the Darkness

Cargo plane makes a crazy low pass over fighter jets at an air base

This is Exactly What New Horizons saw Zipping by Pluto

What a flyover of the surface of Mars would look like

The most insane airplane low pass yet

I’ll never get tired of breathtaking flyby videos of Earth from space

Flying man in wingsuit comes close to crashing into Rio’s Jesus statue

Flying man in wingsuit flies deathly close to the ground like Superman

NASA Captures Unprecedented View of Moon Orbiting Earth

Watch This Crazy Hercules Airplane Flying Just Five Meters Above the Ground (Update 2)

New B-52 Low Flyby Photo Demonstrates That Bomber Pilots Are Absolutely Nuts Too

Is This Insane Low Pass Flyby the Craziest Thing You’re Going To See Today? Most Probably Yes

Slo-Mo Flybys, Big Guys Jumping Little Guys, and Some Smashing Pumpkins

This Fluid Fly-By Video Is the Most Astonishing View of Earth I’ve Ever Seen

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