Gallery: Messenger Sends Back First-Ever Pictures From Orbit Around Mercury [Updated] View Photo Gallery Messenger, meet Mercury. The first image ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit around Mercury was snapped in the wee morning hours yesterday and returned to Earth in short order. Click to launch the photo gallery This image shows a swath of Mercury's southern hemisphere, an area that has never been thoroughly explored close-up (that prominent white feature is a huge, 50-mile-wide crater named Debussy). That's just one question the Messenger spacecraft could help astronomers answer in the coming year as it makes multiple passes around the planet in its 12-hour orbit. The real science phase begins on April 4, when the mission plan calls for Messenger to begin a 75,000-photo survey of the planet (all counted, there are seven scientific instruments on board collecting various data). Update: NASA and company have released a few more Messenger pics as promised, click through the gallery above to see what else Messenger is seeing.
House Swap/Home Exchange - HomeSwapHolidays Showcase of Very Creative 3D Artwork - Noupe Design Blog Feb 15 2011 Three dimensional artwork always tends to mesmerize the human eye. This is the main reason behind the popularity of 3D artwork. With the help of 3D tools, you can create unbelievably realistic artwork. If you happen to have a good command of 3D tools, you can give 2D objects more deepness and thus bring them to life with just a couple of clicks. In this roundup, we are showcasing some amazing 3D artworks for your inspiration. 3 Spheres by Zortje Selfillumination2 by Kutsche Bugatti Veyron Pt XV by rottweiler Victory by geograpcics Picnic at the Lake by MadMaximus83 Guitar by Jesar Reawakening by mOsk Spiderman 3 by JPRart The Chronicles of Riddick – VD by loden Hinted Hills by Hossein Afzali Fish Man by Fabricio Moraes Day of the tentacles by Olivier Cannone le neunoeil by damien canderle Bobby, the little octopus by weilynn By Jose Maria Andres Martin Salad by Till Nowak Cryfro by dleafy Snake by CR-67 The Incredible Hulk by Jonas Thornqvist Pixologic Superhero by jeff miller (ik)
10 Of The Best Beaches For Families (PHOTOS Ahhh . . . the family beach vacation. It's as all-American as apple pie, a time-honored tradition where some of the best childhood memories are made. Everyone has their favorite sands, but when it comes to family-friendly options, not all are created equal. ShermansTravel.com picked 10 great family beaches across the country that parents and kids alike are guaranteed to love – whether for their gentle surf, range of activities, sand-castle potential, or educational elements. So gather the gang and pack up the SPF and beach ball – it's time to take the clan to the sand! Text, photos, and captions courtesy of ShermanTravel.com, adapted from "Top 10 Family Beaches." Cannon Beach, Oregon Set against verdant old-growth forests and punctuated by giant rock monoliths (including the 235-foot-high Haystack Rock), quaint and kid-friendly Cannon Beach lies just 80 miles west of Portland, Oregon. Photo: Travel Oregon 1 of 10 Photos
Dark Wallpapers for Bright Inspiration - Noupe Design Blog Feb 10 2011 Desktop wallpapers are one of those things that inspire all of us once in a while. Therefore, we tend to have developed the habit of changing our desktop wallpapers according to our moods and surroundings. In this post we’ve collected some nice dark wallpapers to show you that black does not always have to represent gloominess but it can also serve to be a color of luminous elegance and style. Don’t forget to share with us which ones are your favourites in the comment section below! Wallpapers The Rise of a Planet II Download Wallpaper: 1024×768 1280×1024 1600×1200 Bavaria Download Wallpaper: 1024 x 768 1600 x 1200 1920 x 1440 Waiting for the next day… Download Wallpaper: 1024 x 640 Gyllenhall computer generated Download Wallpaper: 1920×1200 Sky waves – Beautiful Sunset Download Wallpaper: 1024 x 768 2816 x 2112 Forest trees scenery fog dark forest night Download Wallpaper: 1280×1024 Responsible parents wat responsible parents Download Wallpaper: 1680×1050
San Pedro de Atacama Photos | Bacon is Magic Day 365: San Pedro de Atacama, Chile I’m leaving Tierra Atacama and the desert with a heavy heart but well moisturized skin. Some people love jungles or beaches but I’ve learned that my heart is in the desert. I don’t think I could ever live here, not unless I had a standing weekly appointment with Maca, but the beauty is unbelievable and like nothing I’ve ever seen. I wanted to share a few photos that I hadn’t posted of this spectacular land. Tour group heading out to see the flamingos. It seems like the salt crusted land stretches for miles, only stopping for the mountains. I didn’t touch this photo at all in Lightroom but it’s so picturesque it looks like a painting. Now when someone asks me where the most beautiful landscape is I won’t hesitate to say Northern Chile.
2011 February 2 - Moon and Venus over Switzerland Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2011 February 2 Explanation: Sometimes a morning sky can be a combination of serene and surreal. Such a sky perhaps existed before sunrise this past Sunday as viewed from a snowy slope in eastern Switzerland. Guernsey Day 4 - Sunrise, Clifftop Trek and Foraging On Day 2 I sat and enjoyed the Sunset on Guernsey at Cobo Bay. Today I thought it would be nice to see the sunrise. Great being on an island that you could actually see both in a day, or even walk to each of them the same day too This morning I was not to be disappointed at all for getting up early. After the sunrise and into the day with a hike across the southern coast cliff path. Its not all just sea and rocks around this part of the island, the flowers and butterflies light your pathway all along bringing even more colour to the proceedings. One thing I have not mentioned yet and will do in more detail in a future blog is the various ways and sights that remind you of the German occupation of the island. For the last part of the walk as I turned North off the cliffs to head up the west coast I was met by Jamie Hooper, of Environment Guernsey. Then to greet me at the end of the walk was Tara and D’arcy of Wild Guernsey.
Google Art Project offers gigapixel images of art classics, 'indoor' Street View of museums Google and museums around the world unveil Art Project LONDON, Tuesday 1st February. Today Google unveiled the Art Project, a unique collaboration with some of the world's most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Over the last 18 months Google has worked with 17 art museums including, Altes Nationalgalerie, The Freer Gallery of Art Smithsonian, National Gallery (London), The Frick Collection, Gemäldegalerie, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Museo Reina Sofia, Museo Thyseen - Bornemisza, Museum Kampa, Palace of Versailles, Rijksmuseum, The State Hermitage Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Tate, Uffizi and Van Gogh Museum. The results of this partnership, which can be explored at www.googleartproject.com involved taking a selection of super high resolution images of famous artworks, as well as collating more than a thousand other images into one place. Key features:
UFO-Like Clouds Linked to Military Maneuvers? Three nearly identical, UFO-like cloud formations recently appeared over Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, sparking online discussions linking the features to everything from the Second Coming to recent mass bird deaths to secret military experiments. At least one scientist believes the so-called hole-punch clouds have a military explanation, though it may not be quite what conspiracy theorists expect. On January 7, IT technician Wesley Tyler was running out to his car for a computer part when he noticed the saucer-like formations. (See other cloud pictures.) "At first we thought they were tornado clouds, but the air was so still—like mausoleum still," Tyler said. Back home, he uploaded pictures of the clouds to Facebook, tagging a meteorologist friend, who later identified the phenomena as hole-punch clouds, or punch-hole clouds. Hole-punch clouds are miniature snowstorms that can occur in thin, subfreezing cloud layers. Triple Hole-Punch Clouds Linked to HAARP, Heaven? But why three together?
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