#ArtOfTheDay: 'Pirates Of Venus' by Richard Hescox

'Pirates Of Venus' by Richard Hescox.

Cover art for the 1991 edition of the novel, 'Pirates Of Venus', book 1 of the 'Venus' series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

#ArtOfTheDay: 'Lost On Venus' by Frank Frazetta

'Lost On Venus' by Frank Frazetta.

Cover art for the 1963 edition of the novel, 'Lost On Venus', book 2 of the 'Venus' series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

#ArtOfTheDay: 'Escape On Venus' by Roy Krenkel

Cover art by Roy Krenkel for the novel 'Escape On Venus', book 4 of the 'Venus' series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

#FrazettaFriday: 'Lost On Venus' by Frank Frazetta

Unlettered cover art by Frank Frazetta for the novel 'Lost On Venus' by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Cool Art: 'Carson Of Venus' by Jeff Doten

Jeff Doten, curator at Barsoomia.org, one of the best places to go if you're a fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter / Barsoom books and the recent film, has produced a poster from one of Edgar Rice Burroughs' other series, the third book in the Venus series, 'Carson Of Venus'.

Check out his website for more awesome art - http://www.jeffdoten.com
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Cool Video: The Transit Of Venus from NASA

I would recommend you watch this in HD and embiggen to full screen!

Awesome stuff.



Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its five-year mission, it will examine the sun's atmosphere, magnetic field and also provide a better understanding of the role the sun plays in Earth's atmospheric chemistry and climate.  SDO provides images with resolution 8 times better than high-definition television and returns more than a terabyte of data each day.

On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event--the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.  This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years.  The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.

The videos and images displayed here are constructed from several wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light and a portion of the visible spectrum.  The red colored sun is the 304 angstrom ultraviolet, the golden colored sun is 171 angstrom, the magenta sun is 1700 angstrom, and the orange sun is filtered visible light.  304 and 171 show the atmosphere of the sun, which does not appear in the visible part of the spectrum.

This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010900/a010996/index.html

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The Art Of Pop Culture: Frank Frazetta

Continuing to showcase artwork by some of my favourite pop culture artists. This time it's the work of legendary fantasy artist, Frank Frazetta.

For more information and art, check out this website and Frazetta Girls, run by his daughters Holly and Heidi.

I've already featured his more well known Barsoom/John Carter art previously, but here's a selection of his other work. More examples of Frank's art after the jump, as always, click to embiggen. Be warned as some images are NSFW!