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A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012.
Suomi NPP is NASA’s next Earth-observing research satellite. It is the first of a new generation of satellites that will observe many facets of our changing Earth.
Astronomical is a scale model of our solar system in twelve 500 page volumes printed-on-demand. On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto. The width of each page equals one million kilometres. -
//via olena
(Source: vimeo.com)
you will never hear a pilot saying “I hate my job”
A whole flight day in 8 minutes (mute it)
The Milky Way and Storms over Africa
view from ISS, 2011-12-29 (over central Africa to Madagascar)
(Source: eol.jsc.nasa.gov)
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“Tape Recorders” (2011) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
“Rows of motorised measuring tapes record the amount of time that visitors stay in the installation. As a computerised tracking system detects the presence of a person, the closest measuring tape starts to project upwards. When the tape reaches around 3m high it crashes and recoils back.”
(Source: todayandtomorrow.net)
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Titan & Dione (2011-12-10)
Color-composite of Saturn’s moons Titan and Dione,
made from raw images acquired by Cassini on December 10, 2011.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI. Edited by Jason Major.
Original: saturn.jpl.nasa.gov
Susie is gone
in the 1st post of 2012 I wanted to say Happy New Year to everyone and how happy I am that this shitty year is over.
But 2011 had it’s last strike on me: Susie my little dachshund didn’t woke up today. She was 14 years old. She was like a good-tempered little grandmother. Also emotionally less sensitive friends noted often how benevolent/amiable she was. And smart - she still learned lot of new things in her late years.
Now my one and only housemate is gone.
In this image: we are playing catch-the-ball last summer - that was her favourite activity after eating and chilling.
//thanks to my friend trn for the gif and kind words
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happy holidays!
