NASA's great at naming things

A couple embeds here to make the points that

  • space is cool

  • NASA is skilled at packaging data for scientific and consumer consumption

Video caption from West Wing Transcripts

FADE IN: EXT. THE WHITE HOUSE COLONNADE - DAY
Bartlet and C.J., along with other aides behind them are walking down the
colonnade.

BARTLET
Galileo V.

C.J.
Yes, sir.

BARTLET
Just the name...

C.J.
Galileo V!

BARTLET
You can feel the adventure.

C.J.
Yes, indeed.

BARTLET
NASA's great at naming things.

C.J.
They are.

BARTLET
Mercury, Apollo, Atlantis, the Sea of Tranquility, the Ocean of Storms...

C.J.
Good names!

BARTLET
First time I heard 'Galileo V,' the way the imagination immediately... It
reminded me of the
way folks in my generation felt when we heard "Yellow Submarine."

mars.nasa.gov is the best URL I’ve had the pleasure of typing this year and this panorama is (inter)stellar

This panorama, taken on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, was stitched together from six individual images after they were sent back to Earth.