Thursday, March 28, 2013
Limited Minds Can Only See the Limits of Others
Inside Iceland’s Downed DC-3 by Cole Rise
I think it could be this one... lot's of blogs believe it was sometime in the seventies, but there's no records of a an air accident in Iceland involving a DC-3 in the seventies.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Aurora Borealis
Three-minute time-lapse of a coronal mass ejection (CME) hitting the Earth’s magnetic field by photographer Göran Strand has created an amazing on March 17th, 2013. Two days earlier, sunspot AR1692 produced an M1 class solar flare, which resulted in the CME that hit Earth and created such a beautiful aurora.
Via Laughing Squid
Monday, March 25, 2013
The Story of the Heavens
Early astronomy illustrations from The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert Stawell Ball, 1900 - on Project Gutenberg
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Titan
Spotted this on tumblr...
"Titan Under Varying Filters
RGB color, RGB false color, Infrared, Blue & Ultraviolet Light highlighting geological & atmospheric properties like Titan’s vast dune desert, in Belet (also known as the ‘sand sea’). Or its methane band visible in blue. These filters are mostly used to highlight information about an astronomical body’s chemical properties not visible to the naked eye."
Via Val Klavan's Photostream
"Titan Under Varying Filters
RGB color, RGB false color, Infrared, Blue & Ultraviolet Light highlighting geological & atmospheric properties like Titan’s vast dune desert, in Belet (also known as the ‘sand sea’). Or its methane band visible in blue. These filters are mostly used to highlight information about an astronomical body’s chemical properties not visible to the naked eye."
Via Val Klavan's Photostream
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