Photograph of the Milky Way rising (setting?) above the Earth’s limb from Space Shuttle Discovery.
Odds & Ends: The Milky Way
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Photograph of the Milky Way rising (setting?) above the Earth’s limb from Space Shuttle Discovery.
Satellite view of Mount St. Helens on August 23, 2010.
The free Natural Earth data are a great resource for map-making.
Karsnoyarsk 56.2° N 92.5°E 9:10 p.m. Local Siberia; 9:10 a.m. next day EST High 69F Low 42F Rain We are back to where we started – in comfortable rooms at the Hotel for Scientists in Krasnoyarsk. We drove through the night and arrived here about 6:15 this morning. Even at that early hour, we were graciously greeted us and […]
Marinsk, 56.22 N 87.75 E 12:00 midnight Local Siberia; 12:00 Noon next day EST High 74 F Low 69 F Rain Today has been one long day of travel – and our day is not over yet. I’m calling from a little café in Marinsk, which is a town about 200 km east of Tomsk. […]
Two NASA Earth scientists have traded in their air-conditioned offices for the uncomfortably arid fields of central Turkey. Toiling nine or more hours per day, seven days a week, they walk up to 10 miles a day searching ancient Turkey archaeological grounds for bone fragments, pottery and tombs. But they aren’t using shovels, picks, and […]
Tomsk Oblast 58.55 N 85.68 E 11:00 p.m. Local Siberia; 11:00 a.m. next day EST High 79 F Low 62 F Clear We’ve been on the move today. Last night we looked at our data, and realized that we are done with last night’s site. We still need a day’s worth of different data, so that’s what […]
Stepanova, Siberia 58.67 N 86.76 E 11:05 pm Siberia local; 12:05 pm next day EST High 74 F Low 52 F Scattered Rain Once again I’ve had to spend a day in camp. I have gotten so frustrated and disgusted with being sick, that I’ve gone to the medical kit and started taking amoxicillin. I’ve […]
3 high-resolution images of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.