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archive for 'science'
only because i’ve been working in and out of trees all day today … above, General Sherman, a sequoia in Sequoia National Park in California, US. est. 2,300 years old to 2,700 years old. Pando, colony of Quaking Aspen in Utah, US… While Pando isn’t technically the oldest individual tree, this clonal colony of Quaking Aspen [...] an international crew observed the total solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 on Enewetak Atoll in Marshall Islands and recorded fabulous images The display of the solar corona, lunar surface and stars in the resulting image are highly beyond the ability of human vision during the eclipse. The weakest stars visible in the image are [...] Donald Simanek “It may be perpetual motion, but it will take forever to test it.”
top judged microscopic images from the 2009 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.
a collection of satellite images of earth, processed during the month of August 09. “Rainforests are not always wet and rainy. The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, actually has a dry season when the clouds clear and sunlight drenches the trees. It is during this period that the forest growth is the greatest. [...] a remote volcanic crater on the Pacific island of Papua, New Guinea has revealed many new discoveries and wildlife never seen before. A team of scientists from Britain, the United States and Papua New Guinea found more than 40 previously unidentified species when they climbed into the kilometre-deep crater of Mount Bosavi and explored a pristine [...]
astronomers at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) site in Chile shoot a laser in the sky to measure our own atmospheric distortions… photo – Derick Rethans Noctilucent clouds, or ‘night shining’ are becoming more common, attracting the attention of photographers, environmentalists, scientists and other sky-watchers… The clouds might be beautiful, but they could portend global changes caused by global warming. Noctilucent clouds are a fundamentally new phenomenon in the temperate mid-latitude sky, and it’s not clear why they’ve [...] |
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