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Have you ever seen the band of our Milky Way Galaxy?
http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0819-hippo_tortoise.html
Quote from: Cire on April 05, 2011, 07:08:45 AMhttp://news.mongabay.com/2005/0819-hippo_tortoise.htmlThat's one small hippo!
SouthWest Jordan - Wadi Rum is a strange landscape with mountains ranging up to 5,600 feet high separated by flat, red-sand-filled valleys. It's so alien that it stood in for the surface of Mars in the movie Red Planet and is nicknamed "Valley of the Moon"
Aleutian Islands, Alaska - This steep-sided, 5,000 foot-high stratovolcano is one of the most active volcanoes in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Dark lava flows from a 1980s eruption drape the flank of the southern summit crater of the volcano. The breach and partial edifice collapse of the crater probably occurred during an eruption in 1929. The hydrothermally altered back wall of the crater hosts a 1,000-foot-wide, sulfur-encrusted fumarole field that constantly emits steam plumes.
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado - This steep-sided canyon was carved over 15 million years by the Gunnison River. The walls are made of 1.7-billion-year-old metamorphic rocks known as gneiss and schist. The lighter streaks are igneous dikes made of pegmatite.
Don't know how to embed. http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htm
Quote from: WillieWatanabe on April 08, 2011, 03:20:37 PMDon't know how to embed. http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htm
Quote from: pissclams on April 08, 2011, 03:35:18 PMQuote from: WillieWatanabe on April 08, 2011, 03:20:37 PMDon't know how to embed. http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htmI should have noted, it's a video. But thank you for the picture, Mod Pissclams.
Quote from: WillieWatanabe on April 08, 2011, 04:26:22 PMQuote from: pissclams on April 08, 2011, 03:35:18 PMQuote from: WillieWatanabe on April 08, 2011, 03:20:37 PMDon't know how to embed. http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htmI should have noted, it's a video. But thank you for the picture, Mod Pissclams. Wow. Clams moderating skills on display right here folks.
http://news.discovery.com/space/what-has-the-tevatron-really-discovered-110407.htmlhttp://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/Lectures/WC/110406Cavaliere/index.htmhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0699
This image is the Topeka NEXRAD radar and indicates light echoes that can be seen traveling to the south. These echoes are smoke and ash that are being detected by the radar from fires across the area. The radar shows lots of light echoes near the radar sites. This is actually ground clutter caused by insects, birds, and other non-meteorological echoes.
In the image the infrared satellite shows area that are slightly warmer (i.e. fires) with the orange colors. The urban areas are also warmer. This is actually due to the urban heat island effect and not fires.
This image is a visible satellite image, where the grey plumes of smoke can be seen across Eastern Kansas, with plumes from large fires also seen in Arkansas and Southern Missouri.
Quote from: Chingon on April 09, 2011, 02:17:13 PMhttp://news.discovery.com/space/what-has-the-tevatron-really-discovered-110407.htmlhttp://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/Lectures/WC/110406Cavaliere/index.htmhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0699 Nope!
Foreign workers from Nigeria, Ghana, and other African countries pile in the back of a truck with their belongings trying to leave as the sun sets on the port in Misurata, Libya. Thousands of foreign workers and Libyans alike are trying to leave war-torn Misurata, as fighting continued between Libyan government forces and anti-government rebels. April 18, 2011
Undular bore over the Gulf of Mexico on April 27.
Nile River Delta at NightOne of the fascinating aspects of viewing Earth at night is how well the lights show the distribution of people. In this view of Egypt, the population is shown to be almost completely concentrated along the Nile Valley, just a small percentage of the country’s land area. The thin yellow-brown band tracing the Earth’s curvature at the top of the image is airglow, a faint band of light emission that results from the interaction of atmospheric atoms and molecules with solar radiation at an altitude of approximately 60 miles (100 kilometers).
The photo below shows a superb example of a hole punch and fall streak as observed over Grimsby, U.K., on the east coast of England. The almond-shaped tear in this altostratus cloud deck likely resulted from an aircraft transit. When supercooled cloud water droplets are disturbed by a plane or jet, they’re instantly crystallized. As this occurs, latent heat is released, and the undisturbed portion of the cloud, near the initial perforation, evaporates. The feathery wisps in the “tear” are composed of ice crystals and referred to as fall streaks. They may appear to be trying to fill the rip in the cloud fabric, but they’re simply descending through a hole of opportunity. Even though these crystals are falling, they rarely reach the surface since they quickly sublimate in the drier air immediately below the cloud deck.
Scientists found a flying boar carrying a building across England.
