The Japanese have successfully inserted a probe into orbit around Venus.
The cool thing is their press material has origami models. ?
![Akatsuki Probe 2D Origami](https://blog.bilak.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Akatsuki-Origami-2D-300x175.jpg)
![Akatsuki Probe 3D Origami](https://blog.bilak.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Akatsuki-Origami-3D-300x300.jpg)
A kraken devouring the earth captioned “Nothing is beyond our reach” is an official NRO spy satellite mission patch … you can’t make this shit up.
Update:
Arstechnica has something about this as well. 🙂
https://alpha.app.net/riyad/post/13416584
https://alpha.app.net/riyad/post/12201710
NASA has put together awesome pictures of Earth from opposing sides of our solar system shot from Saturn (by Cassini) and from Mercury (by MESSENGER).