The geographical South Pole sits atop a featureless, barren, windswept and icy plateau at an altitude of 2,835 m (9,301 ft) above sea level.
The ice is estimated to be about 2,700 m (8,900 ft) thick at the Pole, so the land surface under the ice sheet is actually near sea level.
This impressive lunar occultation of Saturn gives you an idea of the real time speed of astronomical events observed through a telescope
[📹 Jan Koet]
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The cotton plant
These fibers are part of cotton's reproductive process: they are produced to preserve its seeds and help them disperse in the wind.
Humans learned to use these fibers to manufacture textiles 8,000 years ago.
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The lava formations you can spot at West Kamokuna Skylight, HI look like Dante's damned soul sliding into hell
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Flying amongst the Greenlandic icebergs, photographer Luke Stackpool was fortunate enough to capture these beautiful giants as they explored the deep blue Icefjord
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Can you believe all the three vans are the same size?
It's called Ponzo illusion: your mind judges an object's size based on its background
[📷 Andrew Wells Photography]
«When you think you're pretty good at painting details»
Victor Navlet, "Vue générale de Paris, prise de l'Observatoire, en ballon", 1855, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
[📹 Mathieu Nozieres]
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
Here are the first observations from the ChaSTE payload onboard Vikram Lander.
ChaSTE (Chandra's Surface Thermophysical Experiment) measures the temperature profile of the lunar topsoil around the pole, to understand the thermal behaviour of the moon's surface. It has a temperature probe equipped with a controlled penetration mechanism capable of reaching a depth of 10 cm beneath the surface. The probe is fitted with 10 individual temperature sensors.
The presented graph illustrates the temperature variations of the lunar surface/near-surface at various depths, as recorded during the probe's penetration. This is the first such profile for the lunar south pole. Detailed observations are underway.
The payload is developed by a team led by the Space Physics Laboratory (SPL), VSSC https://t.co/qBAOCsr4Vu collaboration with PRL, Ahmedabad https://t.co/7DNjnLiXua
Ping Heng Shu Wang is a real master of balance. This is a performance with rocks, but he does it with basically every single object (or even person) he stumbles upon
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St. Elmo's fire on a A320 windshield.
Luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge on the leading edges of airplanes
[📹 Kevin Diaz: https://t.co/o2kbeJm2Ee]
Scientists have recorded seals sleeping for minutes while slowly drifting downward in a belly-up orientation.
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[📹 Kaush Subramaniam: https://t.co/hLGjA6CUfU]
@elonmusk is it possible to add a link that brings me to the bookmarks list when I hit the blue circle area (see picture) Could make it easier to use bookmarks.