Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost continent, underlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.0 million km2 (5.4 million sq mi), it is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America, and [...]
An orthographic projection of NASA's Blue Marble data set (1 km resolution global satellite composite). "MODIS observations of polar sea ice were combined with observations of Antarctica made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s AVHRR sensor—the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. 5 October 2006 Credit
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
A huge cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland spread south east and has turned the skies of northern Europe into a no-fly zone on Thursday, leaving hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded.
Volcanic ash contains tiny particles of glass and pulverised rock which can damage engines and airframes.
Flights from Europe main airports to the [...]
This image, acquired on 15 April 2010 by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS), shows the vast cloud of volcanic ash sweeping across the UK from the eruption in Iceland, more than 1000 km away. The ash, which can be seen as the large grey streak in the image, is drifting from west to east at a height of about 11 km above the surface Earth. Credit
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
This post shows the work of astrophotographer Daniel López from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) that works in Research and Divulgation areas. Among his work you can find deep sky images, Astro-TimeLapse, photographs of astronomical observatories, telescopes and everything related to astronomy and astrophotography.
Daniel’s astro-timelapse Viaje alucinante (“Amazing trip”) is already a classic. [...]
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This Video took roughly 600 hours of editing not to mention the countless hours of shooting. It is made of around 10k photos and took around 300 gigs of info. All of this was shot in 3.5 months which is about 6 hours of editing a day.
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
A short movie inspired on numbers, geometry and nature.
Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila.
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741), nicknamed il Prete Rosso (“The Red Priest”), was a Venetian Baroque composer, priest, and famous virtuoso violinist. He was born and raised in the Republic of Venice. The Four Seasons, a popular series of four violin concerti, is his best-known work. His other compositions [...]
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Gorillas are the largest of the living primates. They are ground-dwelling and predominantly herbivorous. They inhabit the forests of central Africa. Gorillas are divided into two species and (still under debate as of 2008) either four or five subspecies. The DNA of gorillas is 98%–99% identical to that of a human, and they are the [...]
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