By Jan Wondra
\nWhen it comes to breathtaking visuals, nothing in this world can beat the photos taken on the missions of NASA.<\/p>\n
Until now.<\/p>\n
NASA has created an entire range of posters focused on space travel and technology, inspired by those past and future space missions, and they\u2019re giving them away for free.\u00a0 Yes \u2013 for free.<\/p>\n
NASA has created some 14 images of alien worlds, including Mars, Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa, Saturn\u2019s vapor-spewing moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres. How about a visual that could inspire you to visit the planet with no star known as PSO J318.5-22, where it\u2019s always night? Or you can order a poster image of a trip to Kepler-16b, where your day would be super-lit because it orbits two stars like our sun at once, and the grass could very well be red, not green? If you saw the movie Star Wars<\/i>, you\u2019ll recall a similar planet with two suns.<\/p>\n
\u201cProspects for life in this unusual world aren\u2019t good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice,\u201d says NASA of Kepler-16b. \u201cBut the discovery indicates that the movie\u2019s iconic double-sunset is anything but science fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n
The space series includes 14 new posters created by the design studio at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Labs, which is located in Pasadena, California. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA. It is the leading U.S. center for the robotic exploration of the solar system. JPL is currently responsible for conducting missions with more than two dozen spacecraft designed to shed new light on our solar system\u2019s origins while building knowledge of distant planetary environments.<\/p>\n
Why might you ask is NASA stretching our imagination? Because as NASA continues to search for Earth-like planets on the farthest reaches of space, the agency is bringing us along for the ride, encouraging us to dream about what it might be like once we, or at least some spacecraft created for the job, finally lands on those planets.<\/p>\n