Canções como “Break on Through (To the Other Side)”, “Light My Fire”, “People Are Strange” ou “Riders on the Storm”, aliadas à personalidade e escândalos protagonizados por Jim Morrison, contribuíram de sobremaneira para o aumento da fama do grupo.
Após a dissolução da banda no início da década 70, e especialmente desde a morte de Morrison em 1971, o interesse nas músicas dos Doors tem-se mantido elevado, ultrapassando mesmo por vezes o que o grupo teve enquanto esteve ativo. Em todo o mundo, os seus discos e DVDs já venderam mais de 75 milhões de cópias, e continuam a vender cerca de 2 milhões anualmente.
As origens dos The Doors surgem de um encontro ao acaso entre dois estudantes da escola cinematográfica UCLA, Jim Morrison e Ray Manzarek, em Venice Beach, Califórnia em Julho de 1965. Morrison disse então a Manzarek que andava a escrever canções e, a pedido de Manzarek, cantou “Moonlight Drive”. Impressionado pelas letras de Morrison, Manzarek sugeriu que formassem uma banda.
O tecladista Ray Manzarek estava numa banda chamada Rick And The Ravens com o seu irmão Rick Manzarek, enquanto Robby Krieger e John Densmore tocavam com os The Psychedelic Rangers e conheciam Manzarek das aulas de yoga e meditação. Em agosto, Densmore juntou-se ao grupo e juntamente com os membros dos Ravens e o baixista Patty Sullivan, gravaram uma demo de seis canções em setembro de 1965. A demo foi bastante pirateada e acabou por surgir completa mais tarde, em 1997, na coletânea dos Doors.
Nesse mesmo mês o grupo recrutou o guitarrista Robby Krieger e o alinhamento final estava formado — Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger e Densmore. A banda retirou o seu nome do título de um livro de Aldous Huxley, “The Doors of Perception”, que por seu turno havia sido ‘emprestado’ do verso de um poema do artista e poeta do século XIX, William Blake: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite” (em pt: Se as portas da percepção fossem abertas, tudo apareceria como realmente é: infinito).
Os Doors não tinham uma formação comum à maioria dos grupos rock porque não possuíam qualquer baixo quando atuavam ao vivo. Deste modo, Manzarek tocava as seções de baixo com a sua mão esquerda no recentemente inventado Fender Rhodes bass keyboard, uma variação do conhecido piano elétrico Fender Rhodes, enquanto tocava as partes de teclado com a sua mão direita. Já nos álbuns de estúdio, os Doors usaram diversos baixistas, tais como Jerry Scheff, Doug Lubahn, Harvey Brooks, Kerry Magness, Lonnie Mack, Larry Knechtel, Leroy Vinegar e Ray Neapolitan.
Muitas das canções originais dos Doors eram compostas pelo grupo, com Morrison ou Krieger a contribuírem com a letra e melodia inicial, e os restantes com as sugestões rítmicas e harmônicas ou até seções inteiras (por exemplo, a introdução de Manzarek em “Light My Fire”).
Em 1966, o grupo tocava no clube The London Fog, tendo pouco tempo depois passado para o Whisky a Go Go. A 10 de agosto, foram vistos pelo presidente da Elektra Records, Jac Holzman, que se encontrava presente a recomendação do vocalista dos Love, Arthur Lee, que estava ligado à Elektra. Após Holzman e o produtor Paul A. Rothchild verem duas performances da banda no Whisky a Go Go, os Doors assinaram contrato com a Elektra Records a 18 de agosto, tendo marcado aí o início da longa e bem sucedida parceria com Rothchild e o engenheiro de som Bruce Botnick.
A hora foi fortuita, pois a 21 de agosto o clube despediu a banda após tocarem a canção “The End”. Num incidente que serviu de presságio para a polêmica que seguiria o grupo, um Morrison pedrado recitou a sua própria interpretação do drama grego “Oedipus Rex” no qual o protagonista Oedipus mata o seu pai e faz sexo com a sua mãe. A versão de Morrison consistia em “Father? Yes son? I want to kill you. Mother? I want to fuck you” (em pt: Pai? Sim filho? Eu quero matar-te. Mãe? Eu quero foder-te).
The Doors, o álbum de estreia da banda, foi gravado em agosto de 1966 e lançado na primeira semana de janeiro de 1967. Incluía a maioria das principais canções das suas atuações, incluindo o drama musical de 11 minutos, “The End”. A banda gravou o disco em poucos dias entre finais de agosto e início de setembro, com várias canções a serem capturadas num único take.
Morrison e Manzarek dirigiram um filme promocional para o primeiro single, “Break On Through”, o que constituiu um importante avanço para o desenvolvimento dos vídeos musicais.
O segundo single, “Light My Fire”, tornou-se um grande sucesso no verão de 1967, e colocou o grupo, juntamente com Jefferson Airplane e The Grateful Dead, como uma das principais bandas contracultura da América. Para a rádio AM, os solos de órgão e piano foram retirados da canção.
Em maio do mesmo ano, os Doors fizeram a sua estreia televisiva ao gravarem uma versão de “The End” para a CBC nos estúdios de Yorkville, em Toronto. Permaneceu inacessível desde a sua transmissão original até ao lançamento do DVD The Doors Soundstage Performances em 2002.
Os Doors ganharam reputação de artista com performances ao vivo polêmicas. Com a sua presença em palco e as calças de ganga justas, Morrison tornou-se um sex symbol, embora depressa se tenha cansado desta condição de estrela. Uma das mais míticas polêmicas ocorreu quando os censores da rede ed TV Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) exigiram que Morrison mudasse a letra de “Light My Fire” através da alteração do verso, “Girl, we couldn’t get much higher”, antes da banda tocá-la ao vivo a 17 de setembro de 1967, no Ed Sullivan Show. O verso foi trocado para, “Girl, we couldn’t get much better”. Contudo, Morrison cantou o verso original, e pelo facto de ter sido transmitido em direto sem atraso, a CBS não pode fazer nada para o travar. Furioso, Ed Sullivan recusou-se a cumprimentar os membros da banda, e nunca mais voltaram a ser convidados para atuar no programa. De acordo com Manzarek, a banda foi informada que nunca mais tocaria no Ed Sullivan Show novamente. Sobre o assunto, Morrison disse, “E daí? Nós já tocamos no Ed Sullivan Show”. Na época, uma aparição nesse programa era considerada um grande impulso para o sucesso. Manzarek afirma que a banda concordou com o produtor de antemão, mas não tinha qualquer intenção em mudar o verso. Nesta altura, também tocaram um novo single, “People Are Strange”, para o “DJ Murray The K’s TV show” a 22 de setembro.
Morrison cimentou o seu estatuto de rebelde a 10 de dezembro quando foi preso em New Haven, Connecticut, por insultar a polícia perante a audiência. Morrison afirmou que havia sido atacado com spray por um agente após ter sido apanhado nos bastidores com uma rapariga.
A 24 de dezembro, os Doors gravaram “Light My Fire” e “Moonlight Drive” ao vivo para o “Jonathan Winters”. Entre 26 e 28 de dezembro, o grupo atuou no “Winterland Ballroom” em San Francisco. Num excerto retirado do livro de Stephen Davis sobre Jim Morrison, pode-se ler:
Na noite seguinte em Winterland, uma TV foi colocada em palco durante a actuação dos Doors para que estes pudessem ver a sua própria performance no Jonathan Winters Show. Eles pararam de tocar a “Back Door Man” quando a sua canção começou a dar. O público assistiu aos Doors a verem-se na TV.
Continuaram o concerto quando a sua parte no programa tinha acabado, tendo Ray desligado a TV. A noite seguinte seria a última de sempre em Winterland.
— Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend de Stephen Davis em 2004.
Após isto, atuaram em Denver a 30 e 31 de dezembro, e terminaram quase um ano de constante digressão.
Em Outubro de 1967, foi lançado o segundo trabalho dos Doors, intitulado Strange Days e considerado menos espontâneo que seu antecessor, ainda que tenha também ficado creditado pela sua atmosfera e letras. A faixa final, “When the Music’s Over”, era, tal como “The End”, longa e dramática, e contribuiu para aumentar a reputação de Morrison como figura do rock. O álbum incluiu canções clássicas dos Doors como “People Are Strange” e “Love Me Two Times”.
Como resultado do seu sucesso, os Doors deixaram o seu estatuto de heróis do underground. Permitiram que a revista Sixteen os usasse como ídolos de adolescentes e as suas “espontâneas” performances em palco já não eram assim tão espontâneas. Um artigo de Jerry Hopkins da edição de 10 de fevereiro de 1968 da Rolling Stone tipificou o fim do estado de graça:
Uma rotina, ou parte do negócio, não realizada em Shrine, foi a cuidadosamente executada queda “acidental” de Morrison palco para o público. Durante meses fez parte dos espetáculos e gerava muitos gritos por parte das adolescentes. No entanto, surgiu uma análise num jornal no qual a queda era considerada um dos atos mais falsos de sempre. Morrison, em resposta a uma pergunta sobre se ele tinha lido o artigo, disse ‘Sim, e penso que está correto.’ Morrison não fez a queda nessa noite em Shrine.
— Jerry Hopkins – 10 de fevereiro de 1968, num artigo da Rolling Stone.
Em abril, a gravação do terceiro álbum ficou marcada pela tensão resultante da crescente dependência de Morrison pelo álcool. Em aproximação do seu pico de popularidade, os Doors realizaram uma série de espetáculos ao ar livre que levaram a várias situações descontroladas entre fãs e polícia, particularmente no “Chicago Coliseum” a 10 de maio.
A banda começou a sair do seu som original no terceiro LP, Waiting for the Sun, principalmente pelo facto de terem esgotado o seu repertório original e começado a escrever novo material. Tornou-se o seu primeiro e único LP a chegar ao primeiro lugar da Billboard e o single “Hello, I Love You” foi o seu segundo e último a atingir o primeiro lugar no Billboard Hot 100. Este novo álbum reforçou o afastamento dos Doors do panorama underground. Em 1969 na Rock Encyclopedia, Lilian Roxon escreveu que o álbum “fortaleceu as suspeitas de que os The Doors apenas estavam lá pelo dinheiro”. O LP incluiu “The Unknown Soldier”, que foi banida das rádios pelas sua controversa letra. Nesta fase, o grupo realizou outro vídeo musical. “Not to Touch the Earth” foi retirada da peça conceitual de 30 minutos “Celebration of the Lizard”, embora não tenham conseguido gravar uma versão satisfatória da peça completa para o LP. Foi eventualmente lançada numa compilação de maiores êxitos, em CD.
Houve uma controvérsia nesta altura por causa do lançamento do single “Hello, I Love You”, com a imprensa musical a apontar semelhanças musicais da canção com o sucesso de 1965 dos The Kinks, “All Day and All of the Night”. Os membros desse grupo concordaram com os críticos e, de forma sarcástica, o guitarrista Dave Davies costumava tocar partes de “Hello, I Love You” durante os solos em performance ao vivo de “All Day and All of the Night”. Nos concertos, Morrison por vezes não cantava a canção, deixando para Manzarek essa tarefa.
Um mês após as tumultuosas cenas de “Singer Bowl” em Nova Iorque, o grupo viajou para o Reino Unido para as suas primeiras atuações fora da América do Norte. Realizaram uma conferência de imprensa no Instituto de Artes Contemporâneas em Londres e atuaram no The Roundhouse Theatre. Os resultados da digressão foram gravados pela Granada TV com o título The Doors Are Open, que foi mais tarde lançado em vídeo. Também fizeram espectáculos noutros locais da Europa, incluindo um show em Amisterdâ sem Morrison, após este ter perdido os sentidos devido a abuso de drogas. Morrison regressou a Londres a 20 de Setembro e permaneceu lá durante um mês.
O grupo realizou mais nove concertos nos Estados Unidos antes de começarem a trabalhar, em Novembro, no seu quarto LP. O ano de 1969 começou com um espetáculo completamente esgotado no Madison Square Garden em Nova Iorque a 24 de Janeiro e com novo single bem sucedido, “Touch Me”, lançado em Dezembro de 1968, que chegou ao terceiro lugar nos EUA.
Em Janeiro de 1969, Morrison participou numa produção de teatro que mudou o curso da banda. No auditório da Universidade do Sul da Califórnia, ele fez uma atuação que apelava à sua busca pela liberdade pessoal. Isto resultou numa “jam” em estúdio a 25 de Fevereiro, que se tornou na lendária sessão “Rock Is Dead”, mais tarde lançada no box-set dos Doors de 1997. Serviu também de base para um episódio controverso e muito badalado.
O incidente de Miami ocorreu a 1 de Março de 1969, num concerto no “Dinner Key Auditorium” em Miami, Flórida. Morrison tinha estado a beber desde que tinha falhado o seu voo para o concerto. Os 6.900 lugares do auditório estavam completamente lotados, havendo a estimativa de se encontrarem 13.000 pessoas. Então Morrison vociferou para o microfone: “O que quer que tu queiras, vamos fazê-lo”. Dito isto, alegadamente, expôs as suas partes íntimas. Na sua autobiografia, Manzarek afirma que tal nunca aconteceu.
Essa é a minha opinião. Havia uma hipnotização geral. Ele [Morrison] disse-lhes que o ia mostrar e, meu Deus, eles acreditaram. Ele estava a segurar a sua camisola à sua frente, puxando-a rapidamente para a frente e para trás, para a frente e para trás, como um toureiro, enquanto dizia, “Vocês viram? Vocês viram? Eu mostrei-vos! Ele saiu. Eu não o vou deixar de fora. Agora vejam, vou fazê-lo novamente.” E ele voltaria a mexer para a frente e para trás a camisola. Estava calor e havia demasiada gente no local, e as pessoas estavam a ficar loucas, gritando, rodando e puxando este frágil palco temporário. Pensámos que ia desabar – eventualmente parte dele caiu. Foi a insanidade total.
— Ray Manzarek em Light My Fire: My Life with the Doors.
O incidente indignou as autoridades locais e Morrison foi preso por obscenidade. Concertos por todo o país foram cancelados. “Nós tínhamos a nossa primeira grande digressão a vinte cidades programada, e estávamos todos apreensivos por isso,” escreveu Manzarek. “Vinte cidades? Meu Deus, nós vamos fazer uma digressão de um mês? Até então, nós não tínhamos estado na estrada por mais de quatro ou cinco dias. Mas todas as cidades cancelaram, por todo o país.”
A banda confrontou nesta altura Morrison por causa do seu alcoolismo. O incidente permanece inconclusivo.
Morrison gravou alguma da sua poesia nesse mês e em abril começou as filmagens para HWY, um filme experimental sobre um viajante à boleia, interpretado por ele próprio. Os Doors transformaram a sessão de poesia em música para o álbum de 1978 An American Prayer.
Embora Morrison recebesse grande parte da atenção, tendo uma maior imagem na capa do álbum de estreia do grupo, ele mantinha-se inflexível de que todos os membros da banda deviam ser igualmente reconhecidos. Antes de um concerto, quando o apresentador introduziu o grupo como “Jim Morrison and The Doors”, Morrison recusou-se a entrar em palco enquanto o grupo não fosse anunciado novamente como “The Doors”.
Nos últimos dois anos da sua vida, Morrison reduziu o seu consumo de drogas e começou a beber bastante, o que afetou as suas performances em palco e no estúdio. Ganhou peso e deixou crescer barba, levando a Elektra a usar fotos mais antigas para a capa do LP Absolutely Live, lançado em 1970. O álbum inclui atuações gravadas durante a digressão norte-americana dos Doors em 1970 e em 1969, e inclui uma versão completa ao vivo da canção “The Celebration of the Lizard”.
A única aparência em público foi numa gravação especial para a PBS feita em finais de Abril e transmitida no mês seguinte. O grupo tocou apenas canções do seu álbum seguinte, Soft Parade.
Os Doors continuaram os espetáculos no auditório de Chicago a 14 de Junho e atuaram a 21 e 22 de Julho no “Aquarius Theatre” em Hollywood, tendo sido mais tarde lançado em CD. Morrison, com barba, vestiu roupas mais largas e dirigiu o grupo em volta de um som mais blues, através de canções como “Build Me A Woman”, “I Will Never Be Untrue” e “Who Do You Love”.
O seu quarto álbum, The Soft Parade, lançado em julho de 1969, distanciou mais o grupo da sua base de fãs original, contendo arranjos mais “pop” e seções de trompetes. O primeiro single “Touch Me” também teve colaboração do saxofonista Curtis Amy.
Enquanto que a banda tentava manter o seu ímpeto, as tentativas para expandir o seu som deram ao álbum um sentido experimental, originando críticas à sua integridade musical. Os problemas de bebida de Morrison tornavam-no imprevisível, e as sessões de gravação estenderam-se por várias semanas. Os custos de gravação dispararam, o que levaram quase à desintegração dos Doors.
Durante a gravação do seu álbum seguinte, em Novembro de 1969, Morrison teve problemas com as autoridades após ter agido com agressividade contra o pessoal do avião, enquanto se dirigia para Phoenix, Arizona para assistir a um concerto dos The Rolling Stones. Foi libertado em Abril de 1970 após um guarda ter erradamente identificado Morrison como seu companheiro de viagem, o ator norte-americano Tom Baker.
O grupo iniciou o ano em Nova Iorque com duas bem recebidas noites no “The Felt Forum”.
Os Doors regressaram ao sucesso em 1970 com o seu quinto LP, Morrison Hotel. Com um som hard rock consistente, o primeiro single do álbum foi “Roadhouse Blues”, tendo este atingido o 4º lugar nos EUA.
A banda continuou a atuar em arenas durante o verão. Morrison enfrentou julgamento em Miami em agosto, mas o grupo ainda conseguiu fazer a sua única participação num grande festival, o Isle of Wight Festival, a 29 de Agosto. Atuaram juntamente com artistas como Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joni Mitchell e Miles Davis. Duas canções desse concerto foram inseridas no documentário de 1995 Message To Love.
A 16 de Setembro, Morrison voltou ao tribunal, mas o júri considerou-o culpado por profanidade e exposição indecente a 20 de Setembro. Morrison foi condenado a oito meses de prisão mas foi-lhe permitido sair em liberdade, pendente de recurso e após pagar fiança.
Em 8 de Dezembro de 1970, no seu 27º aniversário, Morrison gravou outra sessão de poesia.
Durante a última performance pública dos Doors com o alinhamento original, na “Warehouse” em Nova Orleans, Louisiana, a 12 de Dezembro de 1970, Morrison aparentemente teve um colapso nervoso, tendo deixado cair por várias vezes o microfone ao chão.
De qualquer forma, os Doors recuperaram definitivamente, nesta altura, o estatuto que haviam perdido nos registros anteriores (exceto Morrison Hotel) com L.A. Woman, lançado em Abril de 1971. Apesar da saída de Rothchild da produção, este álbum regressava às origens R&B da banda. Rothchild recusou-se a produzir o novo repertório por o considerar “música cocktail”, tendo entregue o trabalho a Botnick. Como resultado desta mudança, os Doors produziram aquele que é considerado um dos seus registros mais históricos. Os singles “Love Her Madly” e “Riders on the Storm” tiveram sucesso nas rádios e nos tops norte-americanos, e ainda hoje em dia passam com regularidade nas programações de rádio.
Em 1971, após a gravação de L.A. Woman, Morrison decidiu parar algum tempo para descansar e partiu para Paris com a namorada, Pamela Courson, a 11 de Março. Ele havia visitado a cidade no Verão anterior e sentia-se confiante em escrever e explorar aquele local.
Em Junho, voltava a ter problemas de álcool. A 16 de Junho, a última gravação conhecida de Morrison foi feita quando ele travou amizade com dois músicos de rua num bar e convidou-os para ir a um estúdio. Os resultados foram lançados em 1994 num “bootleg CD” designado The Lost Paris Tapes.
Morrison morreu em circunstâncias misteriosas a 3 de Julho de 1971. O seu corpo foi encontrado na banheira do seu apartamento. Foi concluído que morreu de ataque cardíaco, embora tenha sido revelado mais tarde que não foi realizada qualquer autópsia antes do corpo de Morrison ter sido enterrado no Cemitério de Père Lachaise a 7 de Julho.
Ainda existem rumores persistentes de que Morrison simulou a sua morte para escapar à fama ou que morreu num clube noturno e o seu corpo foi então levado secretamente para o seu apartamento. Contudo, no seu livro Wonderland Avenue, Danny Sugerman, antigo manager de Morrison, afirma que durante o seu último encontro com Courson, que ocorreu pouco tempo antes de ela morrer de overdose de heroína, esta confessa ter feito Morrison entrar na droga e, por causa dele ter medo de agulhas, foi ela que lhe injetou a dose que o matou.
Os restantes membros dos Doors continuaram durante mais algum tempo a atuar, considerando inicialmente em substituir Morrison com novo vocalista. Chegou-se a afirmar que Iggy Pop era um dos cantores considerados para a possível entrada. No entanto, Krieger e Manzarek ficaram com os vocais, lançando mais dois álbuns, Other Voices e Full Circle, e partiram em mais uma digressão. Ambos os álbuns venderam menos que os registros da era Morrison, e por isso os Doors pararam as atuações e as gravações no final de 1972. O último álbum entrou no território do jazz. Os álbuns só foram relançados em CD na Alemanha e Rússia, num pacote 2 em 1.
O terceiro álbum lançado após a morte de Morrison, An American Prayer, surgiu em 1978. Este consistiu na adição de música às recentemente descobertas gravações de recitação de poesia por parte de Morrison, constituindo assim os primeiros registros a serem lançados postumamente. O álbum foi um sucesso comercial e foi sucedido pelo lançamento de um mini - álbum com material ao vivo inédito.
Em 1979, Francis Ford Coppola, que estudou com Morrison na UCLA, lançou o filme Apocalypse Now, com “The End” a ter destaque na banda sonora. Quatro anos depois, foi lançada uma apresentação ao vivo sob o título de Alive, She Cried.
Em 1991, o realizador Oliver Stone lançou o filme The Doors, com Val Kilmer no papel de Morrison e presenças especiais de Krieger e Densmore. A interpretação de Kilmer e o próprio filme foram bem acolhidos pela crítica, apesar das suas imprecisões. Os membros do grupo criticaram o retrato feito por Stone sobre Morrison, fazendo-o passar por um sociopata descontrolado. O cantor Billy Idol fez uma aparição no filme e gravou uma cover de “L.A. Woman”. Em Janeiro de 1993, o grupo foi introduzido no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Durante a apresentação, contaram com a presença de Eddie Vedder, vocalista do Pearl Jam, para cantar “Light My Fire” e “Break on Through”.
Em 2001, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore e Robby Krieger reuniram-se pela primeira vez em mais de vinte e cinco anos para tocar canções dos The Doors como parte da série VH1 Storytellers. A cantar com a banda estiveram vários vocalistas convidados, incluindo Ian Astbury dos The Cult, Scott Stapp dos Creed, Scott Weiland dos Stone Temple Pilots, Perry Farrell dos Jane’s Addiction e Travis Meeks dos Days of the New. O espetáculo foi mais tarde lançado no DVD VH1 Storytellers – The Doors (A Celebration).
Em 2002, Manzarek e Krieger voltaram a juntar-se e criaram uma nova versão dos Doors, designada “The Doors of the 21st Century.” O alinhamento era liderado por Astbury, com Angelo Barbera da Krieger’s Band no baixo. No seu primeiro concerto, o grupo anunciou que o baterista John Densmore não participaria, e mais tarde foi reportado que não podia tocar devido a um problema de tinnitus. Densmore foi inicialmente substituído por Stewart Copeland dos The Police, mas após Copeland partir o braço numa queda de bicicleta, a parceria acabou por mútuo acordo, e entrou Ty Dennis, da Krieger’s Band.
Densmore afirmou mais tarde que não tinha sido afinal convidado para fazer parte da reunião. Em Fevereiro de 2003, ele procede a uma ação judicial contra os seus antigos companheiros de banda, para evitar que estes usassem o nome “The Doors of the 21st Century.” A sua moção foi recusada em tribunal em maio. Manzarek afirmou publicamente que o convite para Densmore regressar ao grupo mantinha-se firme. Nesta altura, a família de Morrison juntou-se a Densmore na tentativa de evitar que Manzarek e Krieger usassem o nome “The Doors”. Em julho de 2005, Densmore e os representantes de Morrison ganharam uma acção judicial permanente, obrigando a nova banda a mudar o nome para “D21C.” Atualmente tocam sob a designação Riders on the Storm, em referência à canção da banda com o mesmo nome. Também foram autorizados a atuarem como “antigos membros dos Doors” ou até “membros dos The Doors.”
Ray Manzarek afirmou uma vez: “Estamos todos a ficar velhos. Nós devíamos, os três, tocar essas canções porque, ei, o fim está sempre próximo. Morrison era um poeta, e acima de tudo, um poeta quer que as suas palavras sejam ouvidas.” No entanto, em 2007, Densmore afirmou que só entraria no grupo, caso o vocalista escolhido fosse “desse nível” de Jim Morrison, como Eddie Vedder dos Pearl Jam.
Quando Jim Morrison foi questionado pelo que é que ele gostava que fosse mais lembrado, respondeu: “As minhas palavras, meu, as minhas palavras.” Morrison disse ainda: “Eu gosto de qualquer reação que possa ter com a minha música. Qualquer coisa que ponha as pessoas a pensar. Eu quero dizer que se conseguires pôr uma sala cheia de gente pedrada e bêbada a refletir e a pensar, então estás a fazer algo.”
Em 2004, a Rolling Stone colocou os Doors no 41º posto na sua lista dos 100 Maiores Artistas de Todos os Tempos. No ano anterior, já havia considerado os álbuns The Doors, L.A. Woman e Strange Days os 42º, 362º e 407º melhores álbuns de sempre, respectivamente. Já as canções “Light My Fire” e “The End”, ambas do primeiro álbum do grupo, foram consideradas, respectivamente, as 35ª e 328ª melhores canções de sempre.
Bastante atividade foi anunciada em 2006 por ocasião do 40º aniversário do álbum homônimo de estreia da banda. Para comemorar a efeméride, saiu mais um box-set com os seis primeiros álbuns de estúdio, o livro “The Doors by The Doors” e foi anunciado o início da produção de um documentário oficial sobre o grupo.
Em 2007, os The Doors foram premiados, juntamente com os Grateful Dead e Joan Baez, com o Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award nos Grammy Awards de 2007 e, a 28 de Fevereiro, receberam uma estrela no Passeio da Fama de Hollywood. Pelo meio, a 16 de Fevereiro, Ian Astbury abandona os Riders on the Storm, para relançar a sua antiga banda The Cult, sendo substituído por Brett Scallions, antigo vocalista dos Fuel.
A 24 de Julho é lançado um álbum triplo com registros ao vivo de uma atuação dos Doors na Boston Arena a 10 de Abril de 1970.
A popularidade dos Doors hoje em dia é demonstrada pela quantidade de cópias que os seus álbuns continuam a vender.
The Doors lançou nove álbuns de estúdio, sendo três destes após a morte de Jim Morrison. Além destes, a banda possui inúmeros singles, compilações e apresentações ao vivo.
Canções da banda foram usadas em filmes como “The End” em Apocalypse Now e Knoflíkári, “Soul Kitchen” e “Love Her Madly” em Forrest Gump, assim como “Break On Through (To The Other Side)”, que aparece também em Soldado Anônimo, Gardens of Stone e Os Que Me Amam Tomarão O Trem, “People Are Strange”, que também aparece em Os Garotos Perdido e American Pop, e “Hello, I Love You”, que consta na trilha sonora de Neighbors; “Touch Me” em Escola de Rock, “The Changeling” em Sans toit ni loi, “Riders on the Storm” em Rail Kings e Diário de um Adolescente, “Peace Frog” em The Waterboy,”Moonlight Drive” em Abaixo de Zero e Two-Lane Blacktop, “Strange Days” em Strange Days, “Light My Fire” em More American Graffit e Altered States,”The Spy” e “Maggie M’Gill” em Os Sonhadores, “Roadhouse Blues” em Garota, Interrompid e O Sonho Já Era?, “Over The River and Through The Woods” em I’ll Be Home for Christmas e “The Crystal Ship” em The X-Files, Doidas Demais e True Believer. No entanto, grande parte da sua contribuição em bandas sonoras foi no filme sobre o grupo, The Doors, onde grande parte das canções são da sua autoria.
Também já protagonizou uma única vez, um comercial, da Pirelli na Inglaterra, já que é política da banda, particularmente de Densmore, não ceder as canções da banda para campanhas publicitárias, tendo já inclusive recusado ofertas milionárias da Apple e Cadillac com a justificativa de ser antiético para o legado do grupo e para a memória de Jim Morrison.
As pessoas perderam a sua virgindade com esta música, ficaram chapadas pela primeira vez com esta música. Já ouvi pessoas dizerem que morreram miúdos no Vietname a ouvirem esta música, outras a afirmarem que conhecem alguém que não cometeu suicídio por causa desta música…. Em palco, quando tocávamos aquelas canções, elas pareciam misteriosas e mágicas. Isso não está à venda.
— John Densmore para o The Nation.
Várias séries consagradas já usaram canções dos The Doors, entre as quais se destaca Os Sopranos, Alias, Cold Case, Charmed, Os Simpsons e My Name is Earl.
Além disso, um trecho de “Soul Kitchen” foi adaptado em uma canção de Imani Coppola intitulada “I’m a Tree”, presente na trilha sonora de Alguém Como Você e Virtual Sexuality.
O estilo musical dos The Doors baseia-se essencialmente numa mistura entre blues e o psicodélico. Ray Manzarek fornece elementos de música clássica e blues, Robby Krieger insere ritmos de flamenco, enquanto que Densmore usa os seus conhecimentos de jazz na bateria.
As letras negras do grupo, compostas na sua maioria por Jim Morrison, afastam-se em boa medida das convencionadas pela pop da época. Nos primeiros discos (The Doors e Strange Days), os elementos visionários próprios da música psicodélica surgem expressos em imagens inspiradas na tradição romântica e simbolista, atualizando-a com referências ao existencialismo e à psicanálise. De destacar também a influência dos simbolistas franceses, como Arthur Rimbaud ou Charles Baudelaire, na poesia de Morrison. Nos últimos discos, em especial L.A. Woman, as letras de Morrison tornaram-se mais simples e imediatas, evoluindo assim com o som da banda em direção ao blues.
Música Bauhaus. É limpa, é pura. De um lado há o piano, do outro uma guitarra, a bateria no meio, um tom de baixo no fundo e o vocalista à frente e tu consegues ouvir as letras. Essa é uma das razões porque o som dos The Doors continua ser importante hoje em dia. É claramente moderno. E era isso o que pretendíamos.
— Ray Manzarek para a The World Magazine, em Fevereiro de 2007.
O trabalho dos The Doors serviu de inspiração para muitos artistas, entre eles Iggy Pop, Trent Reznor, Julian Casablancas, Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen, Scott Weiland, Patti Smith, Glenn Danzig e Billy Idol.
Jim Morrison, com a sua atitude e presença em palco, influenciou vocalistas de vários estilos que surgiram depois de si, permanecendo um dos mais populares e influentes vocalistas e compositores da história do rock, enquanto que o catálogo dos Doors tornou-se presença habitual nos programas de rock clássico das rádios.
Hoje em dia, Morrison é apresentado como o protótipo da estrela rock: Arrogante, sexy, escandaloso e misterioso. As calças de ganga que usava quer em palco quer fora dele tornaram-se estereotipadas como parte do perfil de um roqueiro. Serviu de inspiração para outros vocalistas rock da época, como Roger Daltrey (The Who) e Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin).
Instigado pelo jogador Robin Ventura, a equipe americana de basebol New York Mets adaptou a canção “L.A. Woman” como tema tocado nos alto - falantes durante os jogos, com o público a cantar a letra “Mr. Mojo Risin’” (anagrama de “Jim Morrison”) Em 2007, foi anunciado que uma campanha de caridade, a Global Cool, com vista a combater o aquecimento global, tinha encomendado uma canção a ser feita com um poema escrito por Morrison, “Woman in the Window”, que será lançada no álbum de estreia dos Satellite Party, Ultra Payloaded. Morrison inclusive já foi citado num trabalho preliminar para a Comissão Europeia, sobre telecomunicações.
Em abril de 2010, foi lançado o documentário When You're Strange de Tom DiCillo, que conta a história da banda, é narrado pelo ator Johnny Depp. Em 20 de maio de 2013 morre Manzarek. Texto:Wikipédia.
Jim Morrison (Vocais, Harmônica, 1965-1971, R.I.P 1971)
Ray Manzarek (Vocais Secundários, Teclados, 1965-1972, 2002-2013, R.I.P 2013)
Robby Krieger (Guitarra, Vocais Secundários, 1965-1972, desde 2002)
John Densmore (Bateria, 1965-1972)
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Álbuns.
01. End Of The Night
02. Go Insane
03. Hello, I Love You
04. Moonlight Drive
05. My Eyes Have Seen You
06. Summer's Almost Gone
07. Hyacinth House
01. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
02. Soul Kitchen
03. The Crystal Ship
04. Twentieth Century Fox
05. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
06. Light My Fire
07. Back Door Man
08. I Looked At You
09. End Of The Night
10. Take It As It Comes
11. The End
13. Moonlight Drive (Version 2-Rec. 1966)
14. Indian Summer (Vocal Version-Rec. 19.08.66)
01. Strange Days
02. You’re Lost Little Girl
03. Love Me Two Times
04. Unhappy Girl
05. Horse Lattitudes
06. Moonlight Drive
07. People Are Strange
08. My Eyes Have Seen You
09. I Can’t See Your Face In My Mind
10. When the Music’s Over
12. Love Me Two Times (Take 3)
01. Hello, I Love You
02. Love Street
03. Not To Touch The Earth
04. Summer’s Almost Gone
05. Wintertime Love
06. The Unknown Soldier
07. Spanish Caravan
08. My Wild Love
09. We Could Be So Good Together
10. Yes, The River Knows
11. Five To One
13. Not To Touch The Earth (Dialogue)
14. Not To Touch The Earth (Take 1)
15. Not To Touch The Earth (Take 2)
16. Celebration Of The Lizard (An Experiment, Work In Progress)
01. Tell All The People
02. Touch Me
03. Shaman’s Blues
04. Do It
05. Easy Ride
06. Wild Child
07. Runnin’ Blue
08. Wishful Sinful
09. The Soft Parade
11. The Soft Parade
01. Roadhouse Blues
02. Waiting For The Sun
03. You Make Me Real
04. Peace Frog
05. Blue Sunday
06. Ship Of Fools
07. Land Ho!
08. The Spy
09. Queen Of The Highway
10. Indian Summer
11. Maggie M’Gill
13.Waiting For The Sun
01. House Announcer
02. Who Do You Love
03. Alabama Song
04. Backdoor Man
05. Love Hides
06. Five To One
07. Build Me A Woman
08. When The Music’s Over
09. Close To You
11. Universal Mind
12. Petition The Lord With Prayer
13. Break On Through (To The Other Side No. 2)
14. Lions In The Street
15. Wake Up
16. A Little Game
17. The Hill Dwellers
18. Not To Touch The Earth
19. Names Of The Kingdom
20. The Palace Of Exile
21. Soul Kitchen
01. Back Door Man
02. Break On Through
03. When The Music’s Over
04. Ship Of Fools
05. Roadhouse Blues
06. Light Ny Fire
07. The End
01. The Changeling
02. Love Her Madly
03. Been Down So Long
04. Cars Hiss By My Window
05. L.A Woman
06. L’America
07. Hyacinth House
08. Crawling King Snake
09. The WASP
10. Riders On The Storm
12. (You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further
01. In The Eye Of The Sun
02. Variety Is The Spice Of Life
03. Ships White Sails
04. Tightrope Ride
05. Down On The Farm
06. I’m Horny, I’m Stoned
07. Wandering Musician
08. Hang On To Your Life
01. Get Up And Dance
02. 4 Billion Souls
03. Verdilac
04. Hardwood Floor
05. Good Rockin’
06. The Mosquito
07. The Piano Bird
08. It Slipped My Mind
09. The Peking King And The New York
Awake.
01. Awake
02. Ghost Song
03. Dawns Highways
04. Newborn Awakening
To Come Of Age.
05. To Come Of Age
06. Black Polished Chrome
07. Latino Chrom
08. Angels And Sailors
09. Stoned Immaculate
The Poet's Dream.
10. The Movie
11. Curses Invocation
World On Fire.
12. American Night
13. Roadhouse Blues
14. The World On Fire
15. Lament
16. The Hitchhiker
An American Prayer.
17. An American Prayer
18. Hour For Magic
19. Freedom Exists
20. A Feast Of Friends
Bonus Tracks.
21. Babylon Fading
22. Bird Of Prey
23. The Ghost Song (Extended Version)
01. Gloria
02. Light My Fire
03. You Make Me Real
04. The WASP
05. Love Me Two Times
06. Little Red Rooster (Willie Dixon)
07. Moonlight Drive
CD 1.
02. Light My Fire
03. The Crystal Ship
04. People Are Stranged
05. Strange Days
06. Love Me Two Times
07. Alabama Song
08. Five To One
09. Waiting For The Sun
10. Spanish Caravan
11. When The Music’s Over
02. Roadhouse Blues
03. L.A. Woman
04. Riders Of The Storm
05. Touche Me
06. Love Her Madly
07. The Unknown Soldier
08. The End
01. Wake Up
02. Light My Fire
03. Unknown Soldier
04. A Little Game
05. The Hill Dwellers
06. Spanish Caravan
07. Light My Fire (Edit Of Studio Version)
CD 1.
02. Who Do You Love?
03. Alabama Song
04. Back Door Man
05. Love Hides
06. Five To One
07. Build Me A Woman
08. When The Music’s Over
09. Universal Mind
10. Petition The Lord With Prayer
11. Dead Cats, Dead Rats
12. Break On Through
13. The Celebration Of The Lizard: Lions In The Street
14. The Celebration Of The Lizard: Wake Up
15. The Celebration Of The Lizard: A Little Game
16. The Celebration Of The Lizard: The Hill Dwellers
17. The Celebration Of The Lizard: Not To Touch The Earth
18. The Celebration Of The Lizard: Names Of The Kingdom
19. The Celebration Of The Lizard: The Palace Of Exile
20. Soul Kitchen
02. Gloria
03. Light My Fire
04. You Make Me Real
05. Texas Radio & The Big Beat
06. Love Me Two Times
07. Little Red Rooster
08. Moonlight Drive
09. Close To You
10. Unknown Soldier
11. The End
01. The Movie
02. Riders On The Storm
03. Love Street
04. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
05. The End
06. Light My Fire
07. Ghost Song
08. Roadhouse Blues (Live)
09. Heroin
10. Carmina Burana: Introduction
11. Stoned Immaculate
12. When The Music's Over
13. The Severed Garden (Adagio)
14. L.A. Woman
CD 1: Without A Safety Net.
02. Queen Of The Highway (Alternate Version)
03. Hyacinth House (Demo Version)
04. My Eyes Have Seen You (Demo Version)
05. Who Scared You
06. Blakc Train Song (Live)
07. End Of The Night (Demo Version)
08. Whiskey, Mystics And Man
09. I Will Never Be Untrue (Live)
10. Moonlight Drive (Demo Version)
11. Moonlight Drive (Sunset Sound)
12. Rock Is Dead
13. Albinoni's Adagio In G Minor
02. Ship Of Fools
03. Peace Frog
04. Blue Sunday
05. The Selebration Of The Lizard
06. Gloria
07. Crawling King Snake
08. Money
09. Poontang Blues / Build Me A Woman / Sunday Tracker
10. The End
02. Break On Through
03. Rock Me
04. Money
05. Someday Soon
06. Go Insane
07. Mental Floss
08. Summer's Almost Gone
09. Adolph Hitler
10. Hello, I Love You
11. The Crystal Ship
12. I Can't See You'r Face In My Mind
13. The Soft Parade
14. Tightrope Ride
15. Orange County Suite
02. Peace Frog (Robby)
03. Wishful Sinful (Robby)
04. Take It As It Comes (Robby)
05. L.A. Woman (Robby)
06. I Can't See You'r Face In My Mind (Ray)
07. Land Ho (Ray)
08. Yes, The River Knows (Ray)
09. Shaman's Blues (Ray)
10. You're Lost Little Girl (Ray)
11. Love Me Two Times (John)
12. When The Musics Over (John)
13. The Unknown Soldier (John)
14. Wild Child (John)
15. Riders On The Storm (John)
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Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, 1967 And At Cobo Hall, Detroit, 1970.
01. Hello To The Cities
Recorded Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival, England, UK, 1970.
02. Break On Through
Recorded Live At Madison Square Garden, New York City, 1970.
03. Roadhouse Blues
Demo Recorded At Robby Krieger's Home Studio, 1969.
04. Hyacinth House
Recorded At Elektra Studios, 1969.
05. Who Scared You
Recorded At Elektra Studios, 1970.
06. Whiskey, Mystics & Men
Recorded Live At The Aquarius Theater, Hollywood, Los Angeles, 1969.
07. I Will Never Be Untrue
Demo Recorded At World Pacific Studios, 1965.
08. Moonlight Drive
Alternate Version Recorded At Elektra Studios, 1969.
09. Queen Of The Highway
Recorded Live At The Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington, 1970.
10. Someday Soon
Demo Recorded At World Pacific Studios, 1965.
11. Hello, I Love You
Recorded At Elektra Studios, 1970.
12. Orange County Suite
Recorded Live On PBS Television, New York, 1969.
13. The Soft Parade
Recorded Live At Madison Square Garden, New York City, 1970.
14. The End
Recorded At Elektra Studios, 1969.
15. Woman Is A Devil
CD 1.
02. Roadhouse Vamp
03. Hello To The Cities
04. Dead Cats, Dead Rats
05. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
06. Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
07. Back Door Man
08. Five To One
09. Roadhouse Blues
10. You Make Me Real
11. Ship Of Fools
12. When the Musics Over
13. People Get Ready
14. Mystery Train
15. Away In India
16. Crossroads
02. Carol
03. Light My Fire
04. Been Down So Long
05. Love Hides
06. Mean Mustard Blue
07. Carol (Reprise)
08. Close To You
09. I'm A King Bee
10. Rock Me Baby/Heartbreak Hotel
11. The End
01. Light My Fire
02. Been Down So Long
03. Back Door Man
04. Love Hides
05. Five To One
06. Touch Me
07. The Crystal Ship
08. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
09. Bellowing
10. Roadhouse Blues
11. Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
12. Love Me Two Times/Baby Please Don’t Go
13. The End
CD 1.
02. Jim's Introduction
03. Backdoor Man
04. Breaking On Through
05. What Do We Do Next
06. Soul Kitchen
07. You Make Me Real
08. Tuning
09. I Will Never Be Untrue
10. The Crowd Humbley Requests
11. When The Music's Over
12. Universal Mind
13. The Crowd Requests Their Favorites And Tuning
14. Mystery Train / Crossroads
15. Build Me A Woman
02. Who Do You Love (False Start)
03. Who Do You Love
04. Light My Fire
05. The Crowd Requests More
06. The Celebration Of The Lizard
CD 1.
02. Jim's Introduction
03. Backdoor Man
04. Breaking On Through
05. When The Music's Over
06. Tuning
07. You Make Me Real
08. Tuning
09. Universal Mind
10. The Crowd Humbley Requests
11. Mystery Train / Crossroads
12. The Crowd Again Requests
13. Little Road Rooster
14. Tuning
15. Gloria
16. Tuning
17. Touch Me
18. The Crystal Ship
02. Light My Fire
03. The Crowd Requests Their Favorites
04. The Celebration Of The Lizard
05. A Request Of The Management
06. Soul Kitchen
07. Jim Introdices Ray
08. Close To You
09. A Conversation With The Crowd
10. Peace Frog (Inst.)
11. Blue Sunday
12. Five To One
13. The Crowd Again Requests Their Favorites
14. Jim Introduces The Movie
15. Rock Me Baby
CD 1: Beginning Of The Doors: Visionary Dream.
The End
Take It As It Comes
Light My Fire
Moonlight Drive
Break On Through (To The Other Side)
Strange Days
02. Segment II:
Who Do You Love
When The Music's Over
My Eyes Have Seen You
03. Segment III:
Spanish Caravan
We Could Be So Good Together
Roadhouse Blues
When The Music's Over
Who Do You Love
04. Segment IV:
Dawn's Highway
People Are Strange
I Can't See Your Face
Celebration Of The Lizard-The Hill Dwellers
Five To One
Celebration Of The Lizard-A Little Game
Soul Kitchen
Crystal Ship
Celebration Of The Lizard-Lions In The Street
Celebration Of The Lizard-Wake Up
Light My Fire
The End
02. Segment II:
Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
Not To Touch The Earth
The End
Strange Days
03. Segment III:
The American Night
Roadhouse Blues
Celebration Of The Lizard-Wake Up
When The Music's Over
Back Door Man
04. Segment IV:
Tell All The People
Unknown Soldier
Five To One
Ship Of Fools
Riders Of The Storm
Awake
Waiting For The Sun
Dead Cats, Dead Rats
Break On Through (To The Other Side)
02. Segment II:
Peace Frog
Jim Morrison Stage Rant From Miami
Love Me Two Times
03. Segment III:
The End
Hour For Magic
Been Down So Long
Stoned Immaculate
04. Segment IV:
When The Music's Over
Shaman's Blues
The Changeling
The End
When The Music's Over
Horse Latitudes
Ghost Song
Newborn Awakening
02. Segment II:
To Come Of Age
Black Polished Chrome
Latino Chrome
Angels And Sailors
Stoned Immaculate
The Movie
03. Segment III:
The Movie
The Hitchhiker
Riders Of The Storm
Jim Morrison: Cemetery Poem
04. Segment IV:
Jim Morrison: Hitler
Wild Child
An American Prayer
Curses, Invocations
Hour For Magic
A Feast Of Friends
The End
CD 1.
02. I Will Never Be Untrue
03. Peace Frog (Inst.)
04. Blue Sunday
05. Maggie Mcgill
06. Arranging (You Need Meet) Don't Go No Further
07. (You Need Meet) Don't Go No Further
08. Arranging Close To You
09. Close To You
10. Arranging Gloria
11. Gloria
12. Mystery Train (Rehearsal)
13. Mystery Train / Crossroads
02. Thousands Of Dollars Rest Upon This Day
03. I'm Your Doctor
04. Hyper Yachting
05. Build Me A Woman
06. Yachting
07. Cars Hiss By My Window
08. Money Beats Soul
09. Mental Floss
10. Jazzy Maggie Mcgill (Rehearsal)
11. Jazzy Maggie Mcgill
01. Welcome
02. Back Door Man
03. Break on Through (To The Other Side)
04. When the Music's Over
05. You Make Me Real
06. Universal Mind
07. Touch Me
08. Soul Kitchen
09. Jim Introduces Ray
10. Close to You
11. What You'd Like to Hear?
12. Peace Frog (Instrumental)
13. Blue Sunday
14. Five to One
15. Celebration
16. Light My Fire
CD 1.
01. Bootlegger's Chat
Continental Ballroom, Santa Clara, Ca. July 9, 1967.
02. Announcer Intro
Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, Ca. March 4, 1967.
03. Moonlight Drive
04. Back Door Man (Dixon/Burnett)
Continental Ballroom, Santa Clara, Ca. July 9, 1967.
05. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
The Family Dog, Denver, Co. September 30, 1967.
06. Light My Fire
Danbury High School Auditorium, Danbury, Ct. October 11, 1967.
07. People Are Strange
Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, Ca. December 16, 1967.
08. Alabama Song (Brecht/Weill)
Winterland Arena, San Francisco, Ca. December 26, 1967.
09. Close To You (Dixon)
10. I'm A Man (Mcdaniel)
Back Bay Theatre, Boston, Ma. March 17, 1968.
11. Love Me Two Times
Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Il. May 10, 1968.
12. Soul Kitchen
Dallas Memorial Auditorium, Dallas, Tx. July 9, 1968.
13. The Wasp
14. Money (Strong)
Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, Tx. July 10, 1968.
15. When The Music's Over
01. Never Before In Public
02. Wild Child (Morrison)
Cleveland Public Auditorium, Cleveland, Oh. August 3, 1968.
03. Gonna Have A Real Good Time (Rap)
Philadelphia Arena, Philadelphia, Pa. August 4, 1968.
04. Spanish Caravan
The Roundhouse, London, England. September 7, 1968.
05. Five To One
Kongresshalle, Frankfurt, Germany. September 14, 1968.
06. The Unknown Soldier
07. Vince Treanor's Announcement
08. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
Minneapolis Concert Hall, Minneapolis, Mn. November 10, 1968.
09. Little Red Rooster (Dixon)
10. Wild Child (Morrison)
11. Love Me Two Times
L.A. Forum, Inglewood, Ca. December 14, 1968.
12. Touch Me (Krieger)
L.A. Forum, Inglewood, Ca. December 14, 1968.
13. The Celebration Of The Lizard
Madison Square Garden, New York. January 24, 1969.
14. The Soft Parade (Morrison)
15. Tell All The People (Krieger)
16. Who Scared You? (Morrison/Krieger)
17. Does Anyone Have A Cigarette? (Rap)
01. Back Door Man (Dixon)
02. Five To One
03. Forget This Is The Square Garden (Rap)
04. Hitler Poem
Dinner Key Auditorium, Miami, Fl. March 1, 1969.
05. I'm Talkin' About Having A Good Time (Rap)
06. No Limits, No Laws (Rap)
Varsity Stadium, Toronto, Canada. September 13, 1969.
07. The Crystal Ship
Winterland Arena, San Francisco, Ca. February 6, 1970.
08. Carol (Berry)
09. Rock Me (Muddy Waters)
Long Beach Sports Arena, Long Beach, Ca. February 7, 1970.
10. The Spy
11. Is There Any Left (Rap)
12. Blue Sunday
13. Petition The Lord With Prayer / Maggie M'gill
Chicago Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Il. February 15, 1970.
14. Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Carter)
Honolulu Covention Center, Honolulu, Hi. April 18, 1970.
15. Roadhouse Blues
16. Peace Frog
17. Mystery Train (Parker/Phillips)
01. Light My Fire
State Fair Music Hall, Dallas, Tx. December 11, 1970.
02. Love Her Madly
03. Ship Of Fools
04. The Changeling
05. L.A. Woman
Singer Bowl, Queens, Ny. August 2, 1968.
06. The End
Cleveland Public Auditorium, Cleveland, Oh. August 3, 1968.
07. Announcer Outro
CD 1.
02. Tuning
03. Roadhouse Blues
04. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
05. Back Door Man / Love Hides
06. Ship Of Fools
07. Universal Mind
08. When The Music's Over
09. Mystery Train / Away In India
10. Wake Up!
11. Light My Fire
02. Maggie Mcgill
03. Roadhouse Blues (Reprise)
04. Been Down So Long / Rock Me Baby
05. The Music Capital Of The World, Philadelphia
06. Carol
07. Soul Kitchen
CD 1: First Show.
02. All Right, All Right, All Right
03. Howling & Moaning
04. Roadhouse Blues
05. Ship Of Fools
06. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
07. Back Door Man
08. Five To One
09. When The Music's Over
10. Rock Me
11. Mystery Train
12. Away In India
13. Crossroads
14. Prelude to Wake Up!
15. Wake Up!
16. Light My Fire
02. Break On Through
03. I Believe In Democracy
04. When The Music's Over
05. Roadhouse Blues
06. The Spy
07. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
08. Back Door Man
09. Five to One
10. Astrology Rap
11. Build Me A Woman
12. You Make Me Real
13. Wait A Minute!
14. Mystery Train
15. Away In India
16. Crossroads
02. Adolf Hitler
03. Light My Fire
04. Fever
05. Summertime
06. St. James Infirmary Blues
07. Graveyard Poem
08. Light My Fire
09. More, More, More!
10. Ladies & Gentlemen
11. We Can't Instigate
12. They Want More
13. Been Down So Long
14. Power Turned Off
CD 1.
02. Strange Days
03. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
04. Love Me Two Times
05. Light My Fire
06. Spanish Caravan
07. Crystal Ship
08. The Unknown Soldier
09. The End
10. People Are Strange
11. Back Door Man
12. Moonlight Drive
13. End Of The Night
14. Five To One
15. When The Music's Over
02. Love Her Madly
03. Riders On The Storm
04. Orange County Suite
05. Runnin' Blue
06. Hello, I Love You
07. The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
08. Stoned Immaculate
09. Soul Kitchen
10. Peace Frog
11. L.A. Woman
12. Waiting For The Sun
13. Touch Me
14. The Changeling
15. Wishful Sinful
16. Love Street
17. The Ghost Song
18. Whiskey, Mystics And Men
19. Roadhouse Blues
01. Back Door Man
02. Love Hides
03. Five To One
04. Roadhouse Blues
05. Mystery Train
06. Away In India
07. Crossroads Blues
08. Universal Mind
09. Someday Soon
10. When The Music's Over
11. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
12. Push Push
13. The Soft Parade (Vamp)
14. Tonight You're In For A Special Treat
15. Close To You
16. Light My Fire
CD 1.
02. Soul Kitchen
03. Money
04. The Crystal Ship
05. Twentieth Century Fox
06. I'm A King Bee
07. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
08. Summer's Almost Gone
09. Light My Fire
10. Get Out Of My Life, Woman
11. Back Door Man
12. Who Do You Love
13. The End
02. Moonlight Drive
03. Woman Is A Devil / Rock Me
04. People Are Strange
05. Close To You
06. My Eyes Have Seen You
07. Crawling King Snake
08. I Can't See Your Face In My Mind
09. Summertime
10. When The Music's Over
11. Gloria
CD 1: First Show 17/01/70.
02. Roadhouse Blues
03. Ship Of Fools
04. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
05. Tuning / Breather
06. Peace Frog
07. Blue Sunday
08. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
09. Back Door Man
10. Love Hides
11. Five To One
12. Tuning / Breather
13. Who Do You Love
14. Little Red Rooster
15. Money
16. Tuning / Breather
17. Light My Fire
18. More, More, More
19. Soul Kitchen
20. End Of Show
02. Jim 'How Ya Doing?'
03. Roadhouse Blues
04. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
05. Ship Of Fools
06. Crawling King Snake
07. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
08. Back Door Man
09. Five To One
10. Pretty Neat, Pretty Good
11. Build Me A Woman
12. Tuning / Breather
13. Who Do You Love
14. Tuning / Breather
15. Wild Child
16. Cheering / Tuning
17. When The Music's Over
02. Light My Fire
03. Hey, Mr. Light Man!
04. Soul Kitchen
05. Jim's Fish Joke
06. The End
07. End Of Show
02. Roadhouse Blues
03. Ship Of Fools
04. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
05. Tuning / Breather
06. Universal Mind
07. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) (False Start)
08. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
09. Back Door Man
10. Five To One
11. Tuning / Breather
12. Moonlight Drive
13. Who Do You Love
14. Calling Out For Songs
15. Money
16. Tuning / Breather
17. Light My Fire
18. More, More, More
19. When The Music's Over
20. Good Night / End Of Show
02. Roadhouse Lues
03. Peace Frog
04. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
05. Back Door Man
06. Five To One
07. We Have A Special Treat
08. Celebration Of The Lizard
09. Alright Let's Boogie
10. Build Me A Woman
11. When The Music's Over
12. More, More, More
02. For Fear Of Getting Too Patriotic
03. Petition The Lord With Prayer
04. Light My Fire
05. Only When The Moon Comes Out
06. Close To You
07. The Encore Begins
08. Rock Me
09. What To Do Next?
10. Going To N.Y. Blues
11. Tuning / Breather
12. Maggie Mcgill
13. Tuning / Breather
14. Gloria / End Of Show
CD 1.
02. Roadhouse Blues
03. Alabama Song
04. Back Door Man
05. Five To One
06. When The Music's Over
07. Applose Jim Talk
08. Love Me Two Times
09. Applose Jim Talk
10. Little Red Rooster
11. Tuning
12. Money
13. Tuning
14. Rock Me
15. Tuning
16. Who Do You Love
02. Petition The Lord With Prayer
03. Light My Fire
04. Tuning
05. The End
06. Thank You & Good Night
CD 1.
02. Love Her Madly
03. Been So Long
04. Cars Hiss By My Window
05. L.A. Woman
06. L’ America
07. Hyacinth House
08. Crawling King Snake
09. The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
10. Riders On The Storm
02. Love Her Madly (Alternate Version)
03. Cars Hiss By My Window (Alternate Version)
04. L.A. Woman (Alternate Version)
05. The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat) (Alternate Version)
06. Been Down So Long (Alternate Version)
07. Riders On The Storm (Alternate Version)
08. She Smells So Nice
09. Rock Me
01. Show Start/Intro
02. When The Music's Over
03. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
04. Back Door Man
05. Five To One
06. Back Door Man (Reprise)
07. The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
08. Hello, I Love You
09. Moonlight Drive
10. Horse Latitudes
11. A Little Game
12. The Hill Dwellers
13. Spanish Caravan
14. Hey, What Would You Guys Like To Hear?
15. Wake Up!
16. Light My Fire
17. Light My Fire (Segue)
18. The Unknown Soldier
19. The End (Segue)
20. The End
01. Moonlight Drive (Version 1)
03. Indian Summer (81966 Vocal)
04. People Are Strange (False Starts & Dialogue)
05. Love Me Two Times (Take 3)
06. Albinoni’s Adagio In G Minor
07. Not To Touch the Earth (Dialogue)
08. Not To Touch the Earth (Take 1)
09. Not To Touch the Earth (Take 2)
10. Celebration of the Lizard
11. Who Scared You (Recorded At Elektra Studios, 1969)
12. Whiskey, Mystics and Men (Version #1) [At Elektra Studios, 1970]
13. Whiskey, Mystics and Men (Version #2)
14. Push Push
15. Touch Me (Dialogue)
16. Touch Me (Take 3)
17. Talking Blues
18. Roadhouse Blues (Takes 1-3)
19. Roadhouse Blues (Take 6)
20. Carol
21. Roadhouse Blues (Take 1)
22. Money Beats Soul
23. Roadhouse Blues (Takes 13-15)
24. Peace Frog (False Starts & Dialogue)
25. The Spy (Version 2)
26. Queen of the Highway (Jazz Version)
27. The Changeling (Alternate Version)
28. Love Her Madly (Alternate Version)
29. Cars Hiss By My Window (Alternate Version)
30. L.A. Woman (Alternate Version)
31. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) [Alternate Version]
32. Been Down So Long (Alternate Version)
33. Riders On the Storm (Alternate Version)
34. She Smells So Nice
35. Rock Me
36. L.A. Woman (Take 1)
37. Crawling King Snake (Run Through and Studio Chatter)
38. Love Her Madly (Take 1)
39. Changeling (Take 9)
40. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) [Instrumental]
41. Orange County Suite
42. (You Need Meat) Don’t Go No Further
43. Breakn’ a Sweat
44. L.A. Woman (Paul Oakenfold Remix)
45. Hello, I Love You (Adam Freeland Fabric Mix)
46. Maggie M’Gill (John DensmoreFredWreck Remix)
47. You Make Me Real (2Manzarek2 Remix)
48. Roadhouse Blues (Crystal Method Remix)
49. Hello To the Cities (On the Ed Sullivan, 1967 & At Cobo Hall, 1970)
50. Hyacinth House (Demo) At Robbie Krieger's Home Studio, 1969]
51. Queen of the Highway (Alternative Version At Elektra Studios, 1969]
52. Hello, I Love You (Demo Recorded At World Pacific Studios, 1965)
53. The Soft Parade, (Live On PBS Television, New York, 1970)
54. The Woman Is a Devil
55. Someday Soon (Live At the Seattle Centre, Seattle, 1970)
56. Roadhouse Blues (Live At Madison Square Garden, New York, 1970)
57. Break On Through (Live At the Isle of Wight Festival, England, 1970)
58. The End (Live At Madison Square Garden, New York, 1970)
Singles Box (2013)
CD 1.
01. Light My Fire (Mono)
02. The Crystal Ship (Mono)
01. People Are Strange (Mono)
02. Unhappy Girl (Mono)
01. Love Me Two Times
02. Moonlight Drive
01. The Unknown Soldier (Mono)
02. We Could Be So Good Together (Mono)
01. Hello, I Love You
02. Love Street
01. Touch Me
02. Wild Child
02. Easy Ride
01. Runnin' Blue
02. Do It
01. Land Ho!
02. You Make Me Real
01. Love Her Madly
02. (You Need Meat) Don’t Go No Further
01. Riders Of The Storm
02. Changeling
01. Tightrope Ride
02. Variety Is The Spice Of Life
01. Get Up And Dance
02. Treetrunk
01. The Mosquito (Mono)
02. It Slipped My Mind
Tributos.
01. Break on Through (To the Other Side)(Stone Temple Pilots)
02. Riders on the Storm (Creed)
03. Light My Fire (Train)
04. Peace Frog (Smash Mouth)
05. L.A. Woman (Days Of The New)
06. Love Me Two Times (Aerosmith)
07. Under Waterfall (The Doors)
08. Wild Child (The Cult)
09. Roadhouse Rap (Jim Morrison)
10. Roadhouse Blues (John Lee Hoocker & Jim Morrison)
11. Is Everybody In? (William S. Burroughs)
12. Hello I Love You (Oleander)
13. Touch Me (Ian Astbury)
14. Children of Night (Perry Farrell & Exene Cervenka)
15. Love Her Madly (Bo Diddley)
16. The Cosmic Movie (The Doors)
17. The End (Days Of The New)
01. Elephant Stone - L.A. Woman
02. The Black Angels - Soul Kitchen
03. Psychic Ills - Love Me Two Times
04. Dark Horses - Hello, I Love You
05. Camera - People Are Strange
06. Dead Meadow - The Crystal Ship
07. Sons Of Hippies - The Soft Parade
08. Dead Skeletons - Riders On The Storm
09. Wall Of Death - Light My Fire
10. Clinic - Touch Me
11. VietNam - Roadhouse Blues
12. Geri X - Love Her Madly
13. The Raveonettes - The End
01. L.A. Woman
Jimi Jamison (Survivor), Ted Turner (Wishbone Ash) & Patrick Moraz (Moody Blues)
02. Love Me Two Times
Lou Gramm (Foreigner), Thijs van Leer (Focus) & Larry Coryell
03. Roadhouse Blues
Leslie West (Mountain), Brian Auger & Rod Piazza
04. Love Her Madly
Mark Stein (Vanilla Fudge) & Mick Box (Uriah Heep)
05. Riders On The Storm
Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow), Tony Kaye (Yes) & Steve Cropper (Booker T. & The M.G.’s)
06. The Crystal Ship
Edgar Winter & Chris Spedding
07. Intro (People Are Strange)
Keith Emerson, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter & Joel Druckman (John Fahey)
08. People Are Strange
David Johansen (New York Dolls) & Billy Sherwood (Yes)
09. Touch Me
Robert Gordon, Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater), Steve Morse (Deep Purple) & Nik Turner (Hawkwind)
10. The Soft Parade
Graham Bonnet (Rainbow), Christopher North (Ambrosia) & Steve Hillage (Gong)
11. Hello, I Love You
Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep) & Roye Albrighton (Nektar)
12. Spanish Caravan
Eric Martin (Mr. Big) & Elliot Easton (The Cars)
13. Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
Todd Rundgren and Geoff Downes (Yes/Asia) & Zoot Horn Rollo (Captain Beefheart)
14. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad) & Chick Churchill (Ten Years After)
15. Light My Fire
Ian Gillan (Deep Purple), Rick Wakeman (Yes) & Steve Howe (Yes)
16. The End
Pat Travers & Jimmy Greenspoon (Three Dog Night)
Once Sputnik 1 was successfully hurled into orbit in 1957, spaceflight was no longer a mere pipe dream reserved for the pages of fiction. Shortly after the peculiar satellite’s stunning series of orbits, an entire planet watched as mankind, against all odds, set foot on the moon, marking the dawn of the spacefaring age — and leading to some of the best extraterrestrial photos to date. In the half century or so since these historic achievements, we have launched a vast array of instruments into outer space, allowing us to better understand our infinitesimal sliver in the infinite void of the cosmos.
Since then, space agencies around the globe have proposed bizarre missions to whet our curiosities in the name of science. While many of these far-out programs never left the launchpad — let alone the drawing board — plenty of pioneering probes have blasted through our atmosphere, through the outer reaches of our solar system, and, at least on one occasion, drifted into interstellar space. We have rendezvoused with asteroids, sailed through the rings of Saturn, and quite literally roved robotic marathons on the red planet. In pure 21st-century fashion, at least one of these rovers can’t seem to resist the occasional selfie.
While most of us will probably never escape Earth’s gravity, a joint partnership between the International Space Station (ISS) and Google recently unveiled an interactive Space View platform — a variation of the Google Street View program. It lets those of us who never fully achieved our childhood dream of becoming an astronaut virtually tour the ISS and even peer out at a panoramic Earth from the Cupola bay.
Luckily for us, some of the most sophisticated imaging technology ever is currently making its way through our solar system, transmitting breathtaking images of the final frontier back to Earth for our gawking pleasure. From the early, grainy images of the Martian surface sent from the Viking 1 lander to humanity’s first close-up of Pluto’s moon, these glimpses of our celestial neighbors and those light-years away fill us with a sense of wonder. So without further ado, here are 60 of the best space photos to help you put our Pale Blue Dot in perspective.
Photo: NASA
Patches of snow on the red planet
The large patches of ice that typically cover this section of Mars were melted by the heat of early Martian summer, offering a beautiful picture of sand dunes interspersed by small icy formations. This photograph was taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Photo: NASA
Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn’s Enceladus
Long lines called tiger stripes are known by scientists to be spewing ice from the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, creating a cloud of fine ice particles over the moon’s south pole. This photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows those tiger stripes — dubbed here in a false-color blue.
Photo: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team
Hubble Finds an Einstein Ring
This galaxy-packed image from the Hubble Space Telescope showcases a phenomenon known as an Einstein ring. Light from beyond the SDSS J0146-0929 galaxy cluster has been distorted by the massive gravity of the cluster, forced to travel along many different light paths toward Earth, and giving us the appearance of a ring in the sky.
Photo: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt
Space Shuttle Rising
This image of the space shuttle Endeavor shows it punching through the Florida clouds on its final journey into orbit. Taken in 2011, this was the featured image of the Endeavour’s last trip to space. The shuttle would eventually be transported to California, where it can be visited by the public at the California Science Center.
Photo: NASA
M57: The Ring Nebula
A dense ring that is wrapped around a football-shaped cloud of glowing gas, the Ring Nebula is an iconic celestial formation that resembles the fiery eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings. A well-studied planetary nebula, the gaseous shroud of the Ring Nebula was formed by the outer layers of a dying, sun-like star. The nebula is also bigger than you may think — measuring a light year across and about 2,000 light years away.
Photo:NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Composition: Giuseppe Donatiello
Painting with Jupiter
At first glance, this gorgeous image of Jupiter’s atmospheric bands appears as though it is a painting by a famous impressionist. That is largely due to processing by Rick Lundh, who took a close-encounter image shot by the Juno Spacecraft on December 16, 2017, and put it through a special oil-painting filter in his photo-processing software. The result is a beautiful photo that captures the unique appearance of Jupiter’s massive gas clouds and makes it a touch more human, providing a whole new perspective on the beautiful planet.
Photo: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS; Processing: Rick Lundh
STS-41-B Spacewalk
It may have a boring name, but this sure is a pretty picture. This is Astronaut Robert L. Stewart floating a few meters away from the Space Shuttle Challenger during an extravehicular activity (EVA). The mission specialist is seen floating above the oceans of Earth without tethers, using a propulsion system attached to his suit to move around freely in space.
Photo: NASA/Flickr
Horsehead: A Wider View
This image of the Horsehead Nebula combines imaging data from the ground-based VISTA telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, providing a gorgeous view of one of the most beautiful formations of gas and dust. It’s also massive: The left-to-right frame of the photo spans around 10 light years, showcasing the birthplace of numerous young stars.
Photo: Robert Gendler, ESO, VISTA, HLA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Enceladus in Silhouette
This Cassini image from 2009 showcases Saturn’s moon Enceladus, as it floats above the gas giant’s rings with the sun behind it. Just beyond the rings, you can also see Pandora, a pint-sized moon that’s being faintly lit by the reflected light from Saturn.
Photo: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
ISS Solar Transit
This is a 10 frame composite image that shows the International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, in as it transits across the sun at roughly five miles per second. Shot on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, from Newbury Park, California.
Photo: Flickr/NASA/Joel Kowsky
Tesla In Space
Private space organization SpaceX used founder Elon Musk’s red Tesla Roadster as its payload during its February 6, 2018 test launch. The launch was an overall success, sending Mr. Musk’s car deep into space on a trans-Mars injection heliocentric orbit. This photo was taken from the outside of the driver’s side of the car and shows a demo version of the company’s planned spacesuit design with both hands on the wheel.
Photo: SpaceX
Hubble mosaic of the Sombrero Galaxy
This composite shot of the majestic Sombrero Galaxy (M104) shows the galaxy’s brilliantly white core surrounded by thick spiraled dust lanes. Typically just beyond the brightness that would allow humans to see it with their naked eyes, the galaxy can easily be seen through small telescopes. But when shot from the mighty Hubble, it’s true beauty shines through.
Photo: NASA/ESA
Westerlund 2
This special image of the cluster Westerlund was released as part of the Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th year in orbit. A star cluster in the center of the image blends visible light and near-infrared exposures to create a jaw-dropping blend of color in the image.
Photo: ESA/Hubble
Into the unknown
The New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of Pluto after a more than nine-year voyage to the dwarf planet. As part of the mission, the probe performed a six-month flyby reconnaissance study of the dwarf planet and its moons, including the closest approach of Pluto to date. This mission was a major success but the probe was far from finished faring the final frontier.
New Horizons was designed with extra hydrazine fuel onboard to investigate potential Kuiper belt objects (KBO) beyond Pluto if they were detected nearby. In 2014, three such KBOs were discovered all with possible flyby dates in late 2018 or in 2019 and last year, the craft received the green light to journey even farther into the Kuiper belt. The probe is now en route to an object known as (486958) 2014 MU69 and — seeing as this series of numbers and letters isn’t the most communicable of names — NASA has enlisted mankind to come up with an alternate monicker. Those so-inclined have until December 1 to nominate and vote on other potential names via the New Horizons website.
Photo: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
A little perspective
Spanish photographer Dani Caxete snapped this photo of the International Space Station passing in front of the moon earlier in 2017. The image was captured during one of the space station’s 15 daily orbits at a speed of more than 17,000 miles per hour or about 5 miles per second. Nearly the size of a football field, the space station can be seen with the naked eye as it passes overhead. Individuals so inclined can sign up to receive text alerts from NASA as the orbiting laboratory approaches their neck of the woods.
Photo: Flickr/DaniCaxete
Alien terrain
Earlier this year, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a portion of the Hellas Planitia — the largest visible impact basin in our solar system. The formation is more than 1,200 miles in diameter and deeper than the Grand Canyon along certain stretches. However, what is truly mesmerizing about this particular expansive dune field depicted above are the strange, extensive network of winding clefts and the cause of these seemingly meandering markings is still largely unknown.
During the Martian winter, higher latitude surfaces are covered with frost and NASA postulates that these “linear gullies” are formed as this dry ice breaks apart and slowly sift downward along these warm slopes. The space agency is currently testing a prototype “igloo” habitat that could utilize subsurface water ice to insulate humans from the harsh Martian environment.
Photo: NASA/JPL
Throwing shade
The Jovian moon, Amalthea, casts an oblong shadow on the gas giant in this Juno image snapped earlier in 2017. As part of the missions eighth flyby, the spacecraft was racing 2,400 miles above Jupiter’s atmosphere when this photo was captured. Amalthea is an irregularly shaped moon (hence the peculiar shadow) nearly 170 miles in length and about half that in width.
Other than its odd shape, the craggy satellite holds the very specific title of “reddest” object in the solar system. This crimson-clad space rock orbits the volcanically active moon, Io, and it has been speculated that Amalthea’s deep red hue is the result of accumulated sulphur emitted by its lava-spewing neighboring.
Photo: NASA/JPL/JUNO
A galactic “hit and run“
The Hubble Space Telescope captured thousands of galaxies in this breathtaking observation in 1999. The largest feature depicted is galaxy UGC 10214 known as the Tadpole because of its peculiar shape. Located roughly 420 million light-years away, this odd-shaped galaxy is the result of a gravitational encounter with a small interloper (the bright blue feature in the to left of the image). This cosmic collision created a number of stars and stars clusters and each of these individual clusters is comprised of up to one million stars. Eventually these will evolve into globular clusters like our Milky Way galaxy. Billions and billions indeed.
Photo: NASA
Trailblazing the Red Planet
In 2003, NASA launched the twin robotic geologists Spirit and Opportunity, and the following January the two rovers landed on opposite sides of Mars. Opportunity landed in the flat plain known as Meridiani Planum searching for evidence of Martian water. The golf cart-sized craft snapped this photo of the landing site clearly showing the conical outer hull of the shattered heat shield on the left and the physical impact site on the far right. Samples collected at the location determined the area was once the shoreline of a salty Martian sea.
While mission control lost contact with Spirit in 2010, Opportunity is still roving the Red Planet today, exceeding its original 90-day mission timeline by more than a decade. In 2015, the rover set the record for greatest extraterrestrial ground distance traveled breaking the previous record of 24.2 miles set by the Russian Lunokhod 2 rover. Currently surveying Perseverance Valley, Opportunity’s has now logged nearly 28 miles and is showing no signs of stopping.
Photo: NASA/JPL
A rare glimpse of totality
On August 21, some of us witnessed the first total solar eclipse to cross the entire continental United States in nearly a century. Millions flocked to the direct path for the event for a chance to experience a few moments of totality, however, only the six humans aboard the ISS had the opportunity to take in this sight of the moon’s shadow, or umbra, as the total solar eclipse passed over Earth. The ISS orbited the eclipse three times in total, at an altitude of roughly 250 miles. NASA recently released a time lapse of images taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) showing the moon’s shadow as it crossed over our planet.
Photo: NASA/ISS
Pluto’s polygons
In July 2015, the New Horizons craft gave mankind its first up-close and personal look at the dwarf planet formerly known as our ninth planet, Pluto. When NASA began combing through these transmitted images, the team was initially taken aback by a patchwork of seemingly “fresh” polygonal shapes atop Sputnik Planum, an equatorial sea of frozen nitrogen. These findings and others indicate the dwarf planet is surprisingly still geologically active. An article published in the Nature suggests these cells could be the result of subsurface convection — a process that replaces older surface material with fresh ice over time. This would allow the planet to essentially “repave” its icy surface roughly every one million years. To celebrate the two-year anniversary of New Horizon’s initial flyby, NASA used mission data as well as elevation models based on Pluto and its moon, Charon, to create a series of virtual flyovers. You can watch these stunning cuts here.
Photo: JPL/NASA
Juno spies Jupiter’s crimson chaos
Orbiting at a speed of nearly 129,000 miles per hour, the Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot on July 10. When this photo was taken, the probe was just 5,600 miles above the planet’s atmosphere, making the flyby of the iconic storm system the closest to date. Although the spot has been shrinking in recent years, it is still more than 10,000 miles in width (or about 1.3 times wider than Earth). Juno’s next flyby of the Jovian giant will take place in September, and we can only hope for a panoply of equally spellbinding snapshots.
Photo: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/GeraldEichstädt/SeánDoran
Historic firsts
Aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Jack Fischer captured this image of the SpaceX Dragon capsule as it burned through Earth’s atmosphere upon reentry. The event marked the first successful relaunch of a recycled capsule. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private space company, has launched and landed multiple rockets at this point — the company even reused one of these rockets earlier this year. Needless to say, recycled capsules and rockets such as these will be paramount in driving down the cost of space travel moving forward.
Photo: NASA
Veiled Titan
Cassini captured this image of Saturn’s A and F rings, the craggy moon Epimetheus, and a hazy Titan drifting in the background. Titan is the only moon in our solar system known to have an Earth-like cycle of liquids flowing across its surface and also an atmosphere. It is believed conditions on the moon could possibly support life. Researchers have proposed an array of crafts that may one day unlock the secrets of the mystifying moon. These concept vehicles range from a subsurface probe capable of drilling through potential surface ice to a helium blimp that could circumnavigate the moon every few weeks.
Photo: NASA/JPL
Hidden in plain sight
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured this image of the Red Planet on April 8, 2015. The small, blue dot in the center of the photo is actually the Curiosity rover, trekking through a colorful valley known as Artist’s Drive on the lower slope of Mount Sharp. For perspectives sake, Curiosity is about the size of a small SUV. The MRO once again spotted Curiosity climbing Mount Sharp on June 5, 2017. As of Sol 1734, Curiosity has traveled more than 10 miles across Mars; however, another Martian rover, Opportunity, surpassed 26.2 miles traveled on the Red Planet in 2015, making it the first manmade vehicle to complete a Martian marathon.
Photo: NASA/JPL
More than a “red” planet
On Mars, higher latitudes are often more concentrated with seasonal ravines than lower ones. However, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) snapped this photo of the vibrant Krupac Crater and its subsequent gullies, which are located just south of the equator. These seasonal flows — also known as recurring slope lineae — occur during the warmer months, and the subsequent color of each channel corresponds to the eroded source materials.
Photo: NASA/JPL
Enigmatic Mars
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) packs one of the largest cameras to ever visit another planet, allowing the spacecraft to snap the most vivid images of our planetary neighbor to date. This photo of the Red Planet was taken by the MRO during late summer in the Martian Southern hemisphere. During this season, the Sun sits low in the sky, brilliantly highlighting the shifting topography of this so-called “Swiss cheese terrain.”
Mars has polar ice caps similar to Earth, however, on Mars these regions are made of a combination of water, ice, and carbon dioxide, known as “dry ice” in its frozen state. This photo depicts dozens of circular formations in these vast dry ice deposits created by impacts with foreign bodies or as a result of natural surface collapse. Researchers at JPL and NASA have yet to determine the cause of the massive pit — estimated to be hundreds of feet wide — featured in the right of this image.
Photo: JPL/NASA
Juno beholds a not-so-gentle giant
The Juno spacecraft snapped this photo of the gas giant, Jupiter, in August. Taken from an altitude of about 32,000 miles, we can see the planet’s south pole and dozens of Earth-sized hurricanes in stunning detail. The probe arrived at the planet in June and makes a flyover every 53 days, at which point the probe uses eight instruments to collect data for roughly two hours. Once this information has been transmitted back to Earth, this file takes 36 hours for NASA to download.
Along with these sophisticated instruments, Juno packs a few other surprising items, including a trio of Lego passengers: The Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno, and — last but certainly not least — Galileo. In Roman mythology, Jupiter drew a veil of clouds around himself to conceal his mischief. Juno will get a small taste of this mischief and then some when the spacecraft makes its final plunge into the gas giant in early 2018.
Photo: NASA/Juno
Glinting through the darkness
Earlier this year, NASA started releasing global maps of Earth at night, known as “night lights.” Until recently, these images were only produced roughly once a decade. However, NASA is now analyzing these intricate images more regularly for a host of economic, social science, and environmental applications. Researchers will soon be able to produce high-definition images daily, and NASA is currently comparing these photographs — like this composite shot from 2016 — to better project regional and global carbon dioxide emissions.
Photo: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
The potential for extraterrestrial life
The Galileo spacecraft captured this composite image of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, in the late 1990s. Researchers believe Europa is home to a global ocean of liquid water — nearly 60 miles deep — beneath a frozen exterior. If this turns out to be true, Europa would contain more than twice as much water as Earth. Europa’s distance from Jupiter varies due to its orbital pattern causing flexing along the surface. These disproportionate gravitational tugs are responsible for creating the ridges and cracks along the surface, producing these intricate markings as regions continuously shatter and freeze. The same tidal flexing responsible for these geological features may also cause volcanic activity along the seafloor. The subsequent heat and nutrients from such hydrothermal activity could potentially support living organisms.
Photo: NASA/JPL
Fixing our ‘eyes’ in the sky
Some of the most detailed images we have of our cosmos would not be possible without the Hubble Space Telescope. Since Hubble’s launch and deployment in 1990, the telescope has snapped more than 1.3 million “observations.” NASA has also routinely serviced the telescope to tweak faulty equipment and upgrade its overall performance.
This photo was snapped during the first servicing mission in 1993, when astronauts installed new instruments and equipment to correct a flaw in the primary mirror. Hubble weighed about 24,000 pounds when launched, and after the final servicing mission in 2009, it now orbits at a svelte 13.5 tons. The James Webb Space Telescope will replace Hubble in October 2018 — talk about a tough act to follow.
Photo: NASA/Hubble
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The Magellan probe took this photo of the second rock from the sun, Venus, in the ’90s. However, Magellan was not the first craft to attempt to unlock the planet’s many mysteries. Venus is one of the most inhospitable bodies in our solar system. The atmosphere is made predominantly of carbon dioxide, with thick clouds of sulfuric acid and a surface strewn with volcanoes and vast plains of lava. Moreover, the atmospheric pressure on the planet is enough to crush a human and the surface temperature — at nearly 900 degrees Fahrenheit — is more than capable of melting lead.
Needless to say, designing a craft that’s capable of both landing and withstanding such conditions is no easy feat. Nonetheless, in the ’70s and ’80s, the Soviet Union set out to do just that with the Venera missions. In 1975, Venera 9 successfully landed in operational condition, snapping the first 180-degree image of the Venusian surface. Venera 10 similarly touched down on the inhospitable planet and transmitted data back to Earth for roughly an hour. You can check out some of these stunning — albeit grainy — mission images here.
Photo: NASA/JPL
The end of an era
The Cassini spacecraft snapped this photo of Saturn’s small shepherd moon, Pan, on March 7. The moon orbits Saturn at a distance of about 83,000 miles in a 200-mile gap — known as the Encke Gap — within the planet’s A-ring. The probe has regularly transmitted stunning images like this back to Earth, however, after more than a decade in orbit around the gas giant, we are now approaching the end of the Cassini mission. In September, the craft will have nearly exhausted its fuel reserves. To prevent Cassini from colliding with one of Saturn’s moons and potentially contaminating the surface with “hardy” Earth microbes, the craft will be sent on a controlled dive toward Saturn, where it will quickly burn up in the planet’s atmosphere.
Photo: NASA/JPL
Blue skies on the red planet — a “curious” sunset indeed
The Curiosity rover’s Mastcam snapped this breathtaking Martian sunset during a “skywatching” test on April 15, 2015. This specific image was taken between dust storms, and the faint blue haze is the result of sunlight reflecting off of dust that lingers in the atmosphere. The Curiosity team often captures both twilight and sunset images to gauge how high in the atmosphere this dust extends. Curiosity’s official Twitter account originally posted this image with a quote from T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: “Let us go then, you and I when the evening is spread out against the sky: Blue sunset on Mars.”
Photo: NASA/JPL
Ice mountains and cryovolcanoes
The New Horizons mission gave us our first close-up look at the dwarf planet Pluto in 2015, revealing a truly bizarre world. Photographed at a distance of 11,000 miles from the surface, this picture reveals the dwarf planet in stunning detail. The relatively smooth region depicted in the right portion of the image is known as Sputnik Planum. A series of jagged mountains extending as far as 11,000-feet high dominant the left portion of the image. The Norgay Montes formation is also highlighted in the foreground.
These craggy mountains are probably composed primarily of water ice. NASA believes it has identified two potential cryovolcanoes — volcanoes that spew a “slurry” combination of water ice, nitrogen, ammonia, and methane — in the southern hemisphere. The spacecraft snapped this mesmerizing image just minutes into its closest approach. Talk about first impressions…
Photo: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Mimas’ Everest
Mimas, the smallest of Saturn’s major moons, has one of the most cratered surfaces within our solar system. The most prominent of these features is the Herschel crater, named after the astronomer who discovered Mimas, William Herschel. At more than 80 miles across, the massive formation is nearly a third of the total diameter of Mimas.
Fractures on the opposite side of Herschel were potentially caused by shockwaves. In fact, it is believed that the impact event that created the crater nearly fragmented the moon. The peak at the center is nearly 3.5-miles high, making it about as tall as Mount Everest.
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Juno beholds a Jovian giant
This photo of Jupiter’s northern latitudes was taken by the Juno spacecraft in December 2016. The image was snapped as the spacecraft was just 10,000 miles above the planet’s upper atmosphere. In the top portion of the photograph, we can see an anticyclonic storm significantly smaller than Jupiter’s infamous Great Red Spot. Consequently, this meteorological phenomenon is known as the Little Red Spot. This smaller storm system is roughly the size of Earth. While the Great Red Spot appears to be shrinking in size, winds inside of the Little Red Spot have rapidly increased in recent years, causing the system to darken in color.
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Dunes
Depicted above is a portion of the Namib Dune, located in the Martian Bagnold Dune Field. This feature appears as a dark band on the planet’s surface, and was sculpted by Martian winds. The Curiosity rover snapped this picture in 2015 as part of the first investigation of a sand dune on a planet other than Earth. While smaller dunes and similar ripples can also be found on Earth, these larger formations — those more than 10-feet apart — are not part of our earthly landscape.
Photo: NASA/JPL
Cosmic collisions
This photograph was snapped by the Cassini spacecraft nearly 1.4 million miles from Saturn. In the right portion of the shot, you can see a hazy debris field inside the planet’s F ring, which is normally the result of a collision.
This disruption was likely caused by Saturn’s small moon Pandora, seen in the bottom-right portion of the photograph. However, the impingement could also have been the result of an interaction between other objects within the ring. Since these objects are often very small, however, tracking and identifying such an event is exceptionally complicated.
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
A truly peculiar planet
This surreal photo of Earth rising behind our moon was taken by “Kaguya,” a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) orbiter. The spacecraft was named after a 10th-century Japanese folktale in which a lunar princess visits Earth.
The orbiter spent more than 20 months orbiting and surveying the moon. The mission ended in June 2009, however, when Kaguya intentionally impacted the lunar surface near the crater Gill. JAXA later released a trove of photographs depicting our craggy moon, as well as the space rock we call home, in chilling clarity.
Photo: JAXA/Kaguya
Going out on top
In a year chock-full of general low points, the European Space Agency (ESA) served up arguably the best highlight reel of 2016. On September 30, at the end of the Rosetta mission, the ESA executed a controlled fatal crash into comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
The final moments of the orbiter’s life were livestreamed across the globe in real time via an onboard camera. The craft took the selfie above while in transit. Rosetta’s grand finale generated more than 4 million views, making it the most livestreamed video of 2016. You can rewatch the video here.
Photo: ESA/Rosetta
Pluto’s sapphire silhouette
The New Horizons spacecraft spent more than six months studying Pluto and the dwarf planet’s moon, Charon, in the latter half of 2015. Backlit by the sun, this high-resolution, true color image of Pluto was taken on July 14, 2015. The vibrant, hazy layers in the photo extend more than 120 miles above the Plutonian surface. It’s believed that this gorgeous blue haze is a “photochemical smog,” which is the direct result of the sun acting on methane and other molecules in the planet’s atmosphere.
Photo: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Ocean Moon
For decades, scientists were perplexed by Saturn’s ultra-bright moon Enceladus, which remains the most reflective object in our solar system. The mystery behind the moon’s radiance was finally explained, however, during the Cassini mission in 2005. Data from the flyby revealed that Enceladus is home to a vast saltwater ocean.
On the surface, this ocean is frozen, but beneath the dense layer of ice lies a liquid ocean heated by active hydrothermal vents. Jets of ice and water gush through the surface at more than 800 miles per hour. Some of this material continues into space, some of it rains back down onto the moon, and the remaining material actually escapes only to quickly become part of Saturn’s iconic rings.
Photo: NASA/JPL
A not-so-gentle giant
Jupiter is as gorgeous as it is anomalous. The planet actually has more in common with our sun than it does any other planet in our solar system, having developed from the celestial “leftovers” remaining after the formation of the sun. In fact, Jupiter has the same ingredients as a star (hydrogen and helium), however, the planet did not become massive enough to ignite. C’est la vie.
Jupiter also doesn’t have a true “surface.” A probe wouldn’t be able to land on the the planet, however, a spacecraft would also be unable to fly through the gas giant. The intense pressure and extreme temperatures would literally vaporize anything that attempted to do so.
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A lucky rabbit’s footprints
In 2013, China became became the third nation to successfully perform a soft landing on the moon (the United States and Russia being the two others). The landing module, Chang’e-3, and the rover, Yutu — which translates to “The Jade Rabbit” — were named after a Chinese goddess and her pet rabbit.
Yutu spent three months exploring the lunar surface before the mission ended abruptly due to mechanical failures. It is believed that the rover did not properly enter hibernation before a frigid, two-week lunar night. The “frostbitten” Jade Rabbit never fully recovered. China plans to send another lander to the moon and return samples to Earth in 2017.
Photo: NCSA
Rings abound
This is a rare glimpse of Uranus and the planet’s elegant ring system. Astronomers had no idea Uranus even had a ring system until 1977. The astronomers who made the discovery believed there to be six rings in all, though, later observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope identified a total of 13 rings. The hazy white feature depicted near the top of Uranus is actually a massive aurorae. This was one of the first images taken to capture such a meteorological phenomenon on another planet.
Photo: NASA, ESA, and L. Lamy (Observatory of Paris, CNRS, CNES)
Asteroids and interstellar visitors
This is a photograph of asteroid 243 Ida — informally known as simply “Ida” — and its moon, Dactyl. Ida was first identified in 1884, however, its small moon wasn’t discovered until the Galileo spacecraft flyby en route to Jupiter in 1993. At that time, Ida was the first asteroid ever identified with its own satellite. Recently, while scanning the skies for other asteroids, a team of astronomers in Hawaii happened upon the first documented interstellar object to enter our solar system. The team dubbed this drifting visitor “Oumuamua” — a name meaning “a messenger from afar arriving first.”
While Oumuamua‘s exact origins are still unknown, even if the asteroid originated within the nearest star system along its trajectory, it would have taken a minimum of a few hundred thousand years to reach us.
Unfortunately, Oumuamua is quickly whirling toward yet another interstellar adventure and after mid-December, it will be too faint to be detected using even the largest telescopes on Earth.
Photo: NASA/JPL
Craggy moons
This is Saturn’s third-largest moon, Iapetus. The natural satellite’s most prominent feature is the dense ridge that runs along the bulk of its equator. This equatorial ridge has peaks reaching up to six miles high, making these individual mountains some of the tallest in our solar system. This ridge was discovered by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2004. The Voyager missions during the late-’70s and ’80s were the first to provide detail of these geological features, and thus they are informally known as the Voyager Mountains.
Photo: NASA/Cassini
Billions and billions, indeed
Your are looking at one the most extraordinary photographs ever captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. This image was taken as part of NASA’s Frontier Fields campaign, the point of which is to investigate galaxy clusters in more detail than ever before. For this image, Hubble homed in on the constellation Leo, revealing thousands of vibrant galaxies. Keygen easycafe.
Photo: ESA/Hubble/NASA
Lesser-known “spots” in our solar system
This is a composite image of Neptune created from 42 photos, each snapped by Voyager II in 1989. Featured in the photo is Neptune’s Great Dark Spot, which was once a huge storm akin to the one that defines Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. The massive system was about the size of Earth, and winds in the Great Dark Spot were estimated to gust at speeds of nearly 1,500 miles per hour. In 1994, when Hubble focused in to monitor the storm, the system had faded, although a new spot had formed in the northern hemisphere.
Photo: JPL/NASA
Humans on the moon
Images sent back millions of miles to the Earth from various probes are a testament to our species’ curiosity. However, there’s just nothing quite like the photographs taken on the Apollo missions. Photos of the moon snapped by the fingertips of the first humans to bravely bridge the cold, void of space. This photo in particular comes from the Apollo 15 mission. The lefthand portion of the photograph shows a section of Mt. Hadley. On the right, is a lunar formation known as Swann Range, named after Apollo 15 geologist Gordon Swann. The tracks of the Lunar Roving Vehicle can be seen faintly in the bottom left of the image.
Photo: Apollo 15/NASA
Massive impact craters
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera snapped a photograph of this huge impact crater located in the Sirenum Fossae region. The crater is a more than a half of a mile wide. NASA has determined this feature to be relatively new (in cosmic terms) based on the sharp rim and well-preserved ejecta.
Photo: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Unprecedented spacewalks
On February, 7, 1984, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first astronaut to drift outside of a spacecraft without a tether. In this photo, taken by crew members onboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, McCandless is seen field-testing a hand-guided, nitrogen-propulsion device known as the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
Photo: NASA
Cryovolcanoes
Featured amongst the vivid reds is one of two suspected Plutonian cryovolcanoes. At nearly 90 miles across and 2.5 miles high, if further analysis determines this to actually be an ice volcano, this would be the largest known cryovolcano in the outer solar system. Scientists still are baffled as to why the red sediments are not more widespread throughout the region.
Photo: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Charon up-close
This photo of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, was snapped by the New Horizons spacecraft. Charon is a very large natural satellite. In fact the moon is nearly half the size of Pluto. The combination is sometimes even referred to as a double dwarf planet system. The reddish portion at the top is a polar region known informally as Mordor Macula.
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Jupiter’s red spot
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is perhaps one of the most recognizable features of our Solar System. The “spot” is actually a massive, turbulent storm roughly the size of three and a half Earths. The storm has been circling the planet for at least 186 years. This classic photograph was created from three black-and-white negatives from Voyager 1’s 1979 flyby of the gas giant. In 2012, Voyager 1 entered interstellar space, the region between stars — and is still sending signals back to Earth. Talk about return on investment…
Photo: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Death Stars among us
Tethys is one of Saturn’s 62 confirmed moons. Astronomers have long jokingly referred to the moon as the “Death Star” due to its resemblance to the planet-sized battle station from Star Wars. The large impact crater — known as Odysseus — is actually one of the largest in the entire Solar System. Tethys is roughly 660 miles across and the crater is nearly 280 miles wide, meaning the crater itself represents 5 percent of the moon’s total surface.
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
A quintet poses
Cassini has snapped thousands of gorgeous photos of Saturn during its extended mission. In this photo, five of Saturn’s moons are caught in frame alongside a few of the planet’s extensive network of rings. (From right to left: Rhea, Mimas, Enceladus, Pandora, and Janus.)
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Saturnian hurricanes
The Cassini satellite completed its original four-year mission to explore the Saturn and its moons in 2008. And it’s still snapping detailed photographs of the beautiful ringed planet today. This incredible image is a close-up of Saturn’s north-pole hurricane, the first close-up ever taken of the infamous storm; the clouds at the edge are traveling at roughly 335 miles per hour. The eye of the hurricane itself is roughly 1,200 miles wide. To put that in perspective, the United States is about 2,800 miles across. The vibrant colorations are added by spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light.
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Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
Martian bedrock
Located on the northwest rim of Isidis impact basin, the Nili Fossae region is considered one of the most vibrant on Mars. In this photo, the Martian bedrock is exposed, sans the vast expanses of sand dunes. This photo was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
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