Between the Seconds
With the click of a shutter sometimes we become privy to the strange world that occurs between the seconds.
Beautiful Planet - Oh I so want to go to the ISS!
Indian Ocean Maldives “The sunny side of life” is a catchphrase used to attract tourists to the Maldive Islands. Well it certainly looks heavenly from the ISS. Time to order a large drink, you know, one with a lot of fruit and a little umbrella, then stretch out on a hammock and just enjoy life, watching what I can only imagine a marvelous sunset. Image Credit: NASA/ESA, Russian Federal Space Agency, Maxim Suraeva and Oleg Kotov I for one am very pleased that the astronauts on the ISS (heroes in my humble opinion) keep sharing images of our beautiful planet with the rest of us. The real kick is, we’ve seen images like this before, created in special effect studios in Hollywood. [34 pictures] Hint: Use “J” and “K” keys to navigate from picture to picture. Pacific Ocean Hawaii Aloha! Aurora Australis, New Zealand I do not think I have ever seen the Aurora from inside the Aurora itself. Manam Volcano, Papua New Guinea Manam, is just 10 kilometers (6 miles) across. Image credit: NASA/ESA
Earth Hour 2011 - Alan Taylor - In Focus
Last Saturday, March 26, people and businesses around the world participated in Earth Hour 2011, turning off their lights at 8:30 p.m. local time. Earth Hour was organized by the World Wildlife Fund in 2007, as a way to bring attention to energy-consumption, sustainability, and climate change issues. This year, participants in 134 countries darkened homes, skyscrapers, and landmarks around the world. The images below (starting with photo number two) are interactive -- click on each image to "turn off the lights" (For wider screens, be sure to click the "1280px" option at right.) [25 photo pairs] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: This combo of photos shows the Seoul N Tower before (left) and after (right) the lights were turned off for Earth Hour in Seoul, South Korea, on March 26, 2011. Lights are put out on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House, at bottom left, in participation of Earth Hour in Sydney, Australia, on March 26, 2011. - javascript required
Earth satellite photos turned into fantastic art
Earth Art: Islandic Tiger – The Eyjafjorour Fjord, Iceland This stretch of Iceland’s northern coast resembles a tiger’s head complete with stripes of orange, black, and white. The tiger’s mouth is the great Eyjafjorour, a deep fjord that juts into the mainland between steep mountains. The name means “island fjord,” derived from the tiny, tear-shaped Hrisey Island near its mouth. Image taken by Landsat 7 on Oct. 21, 1999 Earth Art Photo: USGS/NASA These images are actual pictures of the Earth, created by printing visible and infrared data in colors visible to the human eye. Hint: Use “J” and “K” keys to navigate from picture to picture. Earth Art: 3D Black Hills, South Dakota, USA While working as a student intern at the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Mark Fersdal created this west-looking perspective of the Black Hills of South Dakota by mosaicking four scenes of the Black Hills. Image taken by ASTER on Feb. 6, 2003 Earth Art Photo: USGS/NASA
Satirical Art Drawings by Pawel Kuczynski
Fun Pic, Pop Culture — By Dave on 2011/02/28 1:48 PM These beautiful works of art are from Polish artist Pawel Kuczynski. Pawel was born in 1976 in Szczecin. He graduated the Fine Arts Academy in Poznan with specialization in graphics. Join Daily Picks and Flicks on Facebook You can order and buy his posters in high quality here. Via. NEW: Check out these wonderful map paintings. Tags: artist Pawel Kuczynski, artworks, Pawel Kuczynski art, Pawel Kuczynski satirical drawings, Paweł Kuczyński, picture gallery, pictures, Polish artist, politics, satirical art Pawel Kuczynski, society
Colorful Planet Mars -A barren but still exciting landscape [43 pics
The following photos of Planet Mars shatters the idea of an all “red” planet. Mars also has many many hidden, very colorful treasures. The landscape shown is like a post apocalyptic Earth. Or perhaps more what our own planet would look like if we removed almost all life. Nevertheless the Mars landscape is breathtaking and make me daydream of what it would be to build a new civilisation on Mars – starting from scratch. HiRISE is the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). HiROC (the HiRISE Operations Center) is where the day-to-day action takes place. Hint: Use “J” and “K” keys to navigate from picture to picture. Manhattan GeysersImage: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Colorful planet Mars: Dry Ice Gone Wild Have you ever played with dry ice (with leather gloves on of course!)? On Mars the seasonal polar caps are composed of dry ice (carbon dioxide). Written by: Candy Hansen (21 March 2011) Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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Space Shuttle Discovery - Getting ready for its final mission
Space Shuttle Discovery being moved to launchpad at nightCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Bathed in bright xenon lights, space shuttle Discovery makes its nighttime trek, known as “rollout,” from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will take the shuttle, attached to its external fuel tank, twin solid rocket boosters and mobile launcher platform, about six hours to complete the move atop a crawler-transporter. Rollout sets the stage for Discovery’s STS-133 crew to practice countdown and launch procedures during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test in mid-October. STS-133: Final Flight of DiscoveryWorkhorse, ambassador, scientist and equal opportunity emissary. It’s been the first shuttle to venture into new territory several times, and it’s about to do so again: Following the STS-133 mission, Discovery will be the first of the shuttle fleet to retire. Hint: Use “J” and “K” keys to navigate from picture to picture.
Mind-blowing artistic rendering of Mars
The outstanding digital rendering techniques of the Dutchman Kees Veenenbos have been featured in National Geographic and on NASA pages . The images he rendered are made with a landscape program called Terragen. He has worked with this program already since 1999 in different versions. Most are made with digital elevation models of NASA, from different satellites like the Mars Global Surveyor for example. He made a lot of images for National Geographic, Mars images, but also of good old Earth and other planets in the solar system and even extra solar planets. We have put together a collection of his fantastic made images of recent and ancient Mars (with water and ice). Hint: Use “J” and “K” keys (after the page finish loading) to navigate from picture to picture. Gusev Crater ancient view on Planet Mars Landing site of the Spirit MER2003 rover. Planet Mars Art by Veenenbos: Valles Mariners The Valles Marineris in the aftermath of a dust storm as seen from the Coprates Chasma (in front).
