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High Definition Images From Mars
April 28th 2010 02:49
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRise) is a camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The 65 kg, $40 million (USD) instrument consists of a 0.5 meter reflecting telescope, the largest of any deep space mission, which allows it to take pictures with resolutions up to 0.3 m, resolving objects about a meter across.
NASA recently undertook a program called HiWish which allowed regular citizens to suggest areas on Mars to point the HiRise camera. Some of the first images from the initiative have been released and can be seen below.
This image shows a portion of the floor in Palos Crater on equatorial Mars. The floor appears bumpy with high-standing layered knobs. Most of the terrain on the floor is weathering into meter-size (yard-size) polygonal blocks. The circular structures in the image, many of which are filled with darker wind-blown material, are eroded impact craters.
The Martian north polar layered deposits are an ice sheet much like the Greenland ice sheet on the Earth. Just as with the ice sheet in Greenland this Martian ice sheet contains many layers that record variations in the Martian climate. Sometimes icy layers can be ablated away during warm climates. Later the ice sheet can be buried by new ice layers and grow in size again. It's likely that many of these cycles have occurred over the ice sheet's history.
This image covers the northern edge of the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars. The margin of Olympus Mons is defined by a massive cliff many kilometers (several miles) tall. At this location, it is nearly 7 kilometers (23,000 feet) tall. The cliff exposes the guts of the volcano, revealing interbedded hard and soft layers. The hard layers are lava and the soft layers may be dust (from large dust storms) or volcanic ash.
Samara Valles is one of the longest ancient valley systems on Mars. This system traverses more than 1000 kilometers (621 miles) toward the northwest across the heavily cratered southern highlands eroding into the gentle slopes of Terra Meridiani. The valley terminates in the northern lowlands within the Chryse basin where both Viking Lander 1 and Pathfinder are located.
Aureum Chaos is a wide region of plateaus, mesas, and knobs. Most of the rocks in this area appear to have formed originally as laterally continuous layers through volcanic or sedimentary processes. Loss of groundwater or ground ice could have then caused the ground to collapse, forming the current surface features of deep valleys and isolated hills with sloped faces. Subtle layering of these rocks can be observed along the slope face seen here, jutting out from under a mantle of surface sediments. Also present along many slopes are dark-toned, discontinuous lineations. These are tracks left behind by boulders that rolled down the slopes.
NASA recently undertook a program called HiWish which allowed regular citizens to suggest areas on Mars to point the HiRise camera. Some of the first images from the initiative have been released and can be seen below.
Palos Crater
Martian North Pole
Side of Olympus Mons
Dunes on Floor of Samara Valles
Mesas in Aureum Chaos
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Holy Week
April 26th 2010 02:24
Holy Week in Christianity is the last week of Lent and the week before Easter. It includes the religious holidays of Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) and Good Friday. It commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ before his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday.
Religious observations throughout the world during Holy Week vary greatly and include many different traditions and cultures.
Below are images taken across the globe in Holy Week 2010. These pictures are part of a large series sourced from this article on Boston.com.
Religious observations throughout the world during Holy Week vary greatly and include many different traditions and cultures.
Below are images taken across the globe in Holy Week 2010. These pictures are part of a large series sourced from this article on Boston.com.
A Christian worshiper holds a candle inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher during a Good Friday procession in Jerusalem's Old City on April 2, 2010. Christian worshipers retraced the traditional route Jesus Christ took along the Via Dolorosa to his crucifixion in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
Girls run as boys throw water at them as part of traditional Easter celebrations in the village of Szenna, Hungary on April 2, 2010. Locals from Szenna celebrate Easter with a traditional "watering of the girls", a fertility ritual rooted in Hungarian tribes' pre-Christian past, going as far back as the second century after Christ.
Members of the Spanish Legion carry the icon, Christ of the Good Death, to the Santo Domingo de Guzman Church during an easter procession on April 1, 2010 in Malaga, southern Spain.
At least one hundred penitents carry the image of Jesus Christ during a Holy Week procession in downtown Guatemala City, Guatemala on Thursday, April 1, 2010.
A man, carrying a candle and a bundle of cactus on his shoulders, takes part in a procession of penitents during Holy Week in Taxco, Mexico, late Thursday, April 1, 2010.
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Wayne Gretzky
April 23rd 2010 01:23
Wayne Gretzky, (born January 26, 1961) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. Nicknamed "The Great One", Gretzky is generally regarded as the best player in the history of the NHL, and has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters, players, and coaches. Upon his retirement on April 18, 1999, he held forty regular-season records, fifteen playoff records, and six All-Star records. He is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season—a feat he accomplished four times. In addition, he tallied over 100 points in 15 WHA/NHL seasons, 14 of them consecutive. Gretzky's jersey number, 99, has been retired by all teams in the National Hockey League.
The images below were taken from this article on Sports Illustrated. Many more rare photos of Wayne Gretzky can be seen here.
At age 11, Gretzky was running wild in his Pee Wee league in Brantford. Nicknamed for his white gloves and speed, he scored 378 goals ... in one season. In one game, he potted three in 45 seconds. "He would never come off the ice," recalls SI.com's Darren Eliot, who played against Gretzky in the same league. "He moved to defense instead of actually taking a break on the bench."
Gretzky, 17, scored 70 goals and 182 points in 63 games for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the Junior A Ontario Hockey Association and was the youngest player on Team Canada at the 1978 World Junior Championship in Quebec City. (He lead all scorers with eight goals and nine assists in six games.) Despite his prowess and uncanny on-ice sense and vision, some scouts feared he would be too small to play in the NHL.
Gretzky had played only eight games for Indianapolis when the team folded. He was sold to the WHA's Edmonton Oilers, with whom he signed a 21-year contract worth $1 million per season on his 18th birthday. The Oilers were absorbed by the NHL later that year and Gretzky's accomplishments and legend would reach unprecedented heights.
Gretzky and the Oilers quickly became a force. Here, he playfully interviews two of his most notable teammates -- future Hall of Famers Paul Coffey and Mark Messier.
Gretzky's trade from the Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in August 1988 was a landmark event for hockey in the United States. The Great One was welcomed to L.A. by Lakers superstar Magic Johnson.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article for Wayne Gretzky.
The images below were taken from this article on Sports Illustrated. Many more rare photos of Wayne Gretzky can be seen here.
The White Tornado, 1972
1978
Edmonton Oiler, January 1979
1982
Wayne Gretzky, Magic Johnson 1988
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article for Wayne Gretzky.
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Historic Los Angeles
April 21st 2010 01:56
Los Angeles, (Spanish for "The Angels") is the second largest city in the United States.
Los Angeles was founded in 1781 by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821, following its independence from Spain. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican-American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States.
Often known by its initials, "L.A.", and nicknamed the "City of Angels", Los Angeles is a world centre of business, international trade, entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, technology, and education. As the home base of Hollywood, it is known as the "Entertainment Capital of the World".
The images below are from this article at Life.com which details the early landmarks and icons of Los Angeles.
The sound stage at 20th Century Fox, c. 1930. It was here that the child star Shirley Temple -- Hollywood's biggest box office draw for years on end during the 1930s -- as well as Will Rogers, Betty Grable, Henry Fonda, and other legends helped turn 20th Century Fox into one of the handful of studios of Hollywood's Golden Age (with Paramount, Columbia, and Warner Bros.) with enough staying power to last into the 21st century.
Glendale Boulevard, 1927. The rapid expansion of contiguous suburbs spreading out around L.A. demanded a modern infrastructure. And that meant freeways. How charming that one can actually count the cars on the road in this picture.
An oil derrick stands in the middle of La Cienga Boulevard, 1938. At one time, there were more than 200 oil companies, large and small, and several thousand oil wells operating within the L.A. city limits.
"Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel." — Fran Lebowitz
Moving day in the Southland, 1952. A posed picture for LIFE magazine illustrates the rapid suburbanization of Southern California in the early 1950s.
Los Angeles was founded in 1781 by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821, following its independence from Spain. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican-American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States.
Often known by its initials, "L.A.", and nicknamed the "City of Angels", Los Angeles is a world centre of business, international trade, entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, technology, and education. As the home base of Hollywood, it is known as the "Entertainment Capital of the World".
The images below are from this article at Life.com which details the early landmarks and icons of Los Angeles.
The Temple of Shirley, and Others
Los Angeles: Portrait of a City
Well-Oiled
Centre of the World
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China, By The Numbers
April 19th 2010 00:53
China is the most populous state in the world with over 1.3 billion people, about one in five humans.
At about 9.6 million square kilometres (3.7 million square miles), China is the world's second largest country by land area[ Click here to read more ]
At about 9.6 million square kilometres (3.7 million square miles), China is the world's second largest country by land area
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Ancient Historical Photographs
April 16th 2010 23:53
A photograph or photo is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The word "photograph" was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek (phos) "light" and (graphe) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light".
Here are some of the earliest photographs ever taken and their historical significance[ Click here to read more ]
Here are some of the earliest photographs ever taken and their historical significance
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Winter Paralympics
April 14th 2010 23:36
As reported in the Big Picture on Boston.com, over 500 athletes from 44 countries around the world have once again descended on Vancouver Canada, for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Paralympic Games. After a separate torch relay and opening ceremony, competitors faced off in five different sports: Sledge hockey, Wheelchair curling, Alpine skiing, Biathlon, and Cross-country skiing - the last three broken into classes of sitting, standing and visually impaired.
Below are some pictures from this year's games. View the full article here.
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Below are some pictures from this year's games. View the full article here.
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High Speed Photography
April 12th 2010 23:15
High Speed Photography is the complete opposite of Time Lapse Photography.
To be used for high speed photography a camera must be able to take a minimum of 128 frames per second and in sequences of at least three. Some modern cameras are capable of much more than this which allows the photographer to capture extremely high speed objects and phenomena which are not normally visible to the human eye, or too quick for the brain to process.
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To be used for high speed photography a camera must be able to take a minimum of 128 frames per second and in sequences of at least three. Some modern cameras are capable of much more than this which allows the photographer to capture extremely high speed objects and phenomena which are not normally visible to the human eye, or too quick for the brain to process.
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Lake Kaindy
April 9th 2010 02:45
Kaindy Lake is a 400 meter long lake in Kazakhstan that reaches depths near 30 meters in some areas. It is located 129 km ESE of the city of Almaty and is 2,000 meters above sea level. It was created by the result of an enormous limestone landslide last century. The track to Kaindy lake has many scenic views to the Saty Gorge, the Chilik River valley and the Kaindy gorge. Dried-out trunks of submerged Schrenk’s Spruce trees rise above the surface
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Starbucks vs McDonalds
April 7th 2010 01:46
McDonalds has been around a long time, and has the most restaurants of any fast food chain in the world with over 30,000. However, the relative newcomer Starbucks is catching fast with 6,000 outlets already and an average of three new stores opening every single day.
The infographic below sourced from Princeton University compares these to other major fast food chains around the world. It gives an intriguing insight into their size, influence, growth and future prospects[ Click here to read more ]
The infographic below sourced from Princeton University compares these to other major fast food chains around the world. It gives an intriguing insight into their size, influence, growth and future prospects
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Strange Facts About Space
April 5th 2010 01:43
Space is an unusual place to us humans, there the laws of physics no longer seem to apply.
The universe is so huge that it's almost impossible for us to comprehend the sheer enormity of it all.
However, we now believe we have a decent grasp of what goes on in our own solar system. But even in the local neighbourhood things become very strange up there[ Click here to read more ]
The universe is so huge that it's almost impossible for us to comprehend the sheer enormity of it all.
However, we now believe we have a decent grasp of what goes on in our own solar system. But even in the local neighbourhood things become very strange up there
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Insects Up Close
April 2nd 2010 01:08
Creepy crawlies: Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope pictures of insects and spiders.
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