distant-traveller:

NASA’s GROVER debuts on Greenland’s ice sheet

NASA’s new Earth-bound rover began testing on the Greenland ice sheet this week.

GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, is an autonomous, solar-operated robot that carries a ground-penetrating radar to examine the layers of Greenland’s ice sheet. Its findings will help scientists understand how the massive ice sheet gains and loses ice.

The GROVER team, led by glaciologist Lora Koenig from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., arrived in Summit Camp, the highest spot in Greenland, on May 6, 2013. After loading and testing the rover’s radar and fixing a minor communications glitch, the team began the robot’s tests on the ice on May 8, defying winds of up to 23 mph (37 kph) and temperatures as low as minus 22 F (minus 30 C).

Image credit: Lora Koenig / NASA Goddard

thingsmagazine:

Ezra Stoller, Life Savers Factory, Port Chester, N.Y, 1956

jamiew:

Lichtenberg Figures: The Fractal Patterns of Lightning Strike Scars

miss-azura:

gimme-souls:

andrewgary-scott:

you-are-another-me:

“A friend took this pic in Arizona USA. The meteorologists don’t have a name for it. 
Seems to be high energy to be in a Rainbow and a tornado! ”

(source: Council of World Elders)

Oh my

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All I could think of is the Bifrost.

miss-azura:

gimme-souls:

andrewgary-scott:

you-are-another-me:

“A friend took this pic in Arizona USA. The meteorologists don’t have a name for it. 
Seems to be high energy to be in a Rainbow and a tornado! ”

(source: Council of World Elders)

Oh my

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All I could think of is the Bifrost.

mythologyofblue:

Lantern slides of Norway, ca. 1910 + +

ikenbot:

Red Sun with Sunspots

May 3rd, 2013 - as on the day before, smoke from forest fires tinted the sun an unusual shade of red. The smoke also dimmed the sun enough to make it possible to see the larger sunspots without a protective filter. — Florian Kainz

Nightscapes from Real de Catorce, México — César Cantú

pappubahry:

Approaching Saturn’s moon Titan.  Photographed by Cassini, 26 October 2004.

Dancing Aurora Rotating Sky by Yuichi Takasaka