"Hello there!, I'll be your tour guide on a boating adventure, a day of exploration, in the summertime.
This is a harbour seal, I think. I refer to them as the Cute seals, the Grey Seal is much larger & also called a horsehead seal, because, THEY UGLY! 😂
You don't have to be in a boat to see these. I can walk to most shorelines and see them.
Today is the 93rd anniversary of the 1st test of the Bathysphere (May 27th 1930), the first capsule to take humans down into the ocean depths. It was William Beebe’s idea & Otis Barton did the engineering. They were the first people to see deep ocean creatures in their natural habitat, setting a record dive depth of 670 metres in 1932. Beebe described it as “dangling in a hollow pea on a swaying cobweb, a quarter of a mile below the deck of a ship rolling in mid-ocean”. #Ocean#Exploration
Guy: Don’t run an exploration game, they are deeply flawed because they don’t have recurring NPCs.
While I think it’s important to acknowledge that might be a drawback, I’ve seen plenty of groups who are more interested in solving the next puzzle than having ongoing drama with NPCs. Too often people mistake their personal preferences for universal laws.
Here’s the time lapse we made of ESA/JAXA #BepiColombo’s third of six flybys of Mercury earlier this week, as the spacecraft emerged from behind the planet & watched it recede 🛰️🌓
There’s also a “shape from shading” 3D flyover of Manley Crater & Beagle Rupes made with the data by Kay Wohlfarth at TU Dortmund 🛸
All set to a new musical composition by our friend ILĀ 🎶
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Late night update: we‘be been working hard in the past two days on a time lapse movie of the latest #MercuryFlyby by our #Bepicolombo mission, & wrapped it tonight 🎥🎞️🎬
So look forward to that tomorrow, including a new way of visualising the data, all accompanied by some lovely music.
Cela fait bientôt 11 ans 1/2 que le rover Curiosity explore le cratère Gale et gravit les pentes du Mt Sharp. Il est entré dans la vallée Gediz et nous offre ces derniers temps de superbes panoramas.
Au centre, la crête Gediz Vallis et à gauche, la colline Kukenan.
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🛰️🪨 #Lucy en route pour les astéroïdes troyens a photographié l'astéroïde Dinkinesh, le premier des 10 astéroïdes que la sonde visitera au cours de son voyage de 12 ans. Lucy a effectué ces deux images les 2 et 5 septembre à 23 millions de km de la cible.
📷 NASA/JH APL #espace#spatial#exploration
"Multiplanetary" and settlements on #Mars is as good an idea in the 21st century as "multicontinental" with settlements on Antarctica would have been in the 16th century.
Over the past decade or so, researchers have found genetic evidence for contact between people in eastern Polynesia and those in coastal Peru and Colombia. Now archeologists studying the oldest settlement on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) have found physical evidence that islanders traveled to South America at least once and returned with food crops not known in Polynesia.
Le rover Curiosity a brisé une roche en roulant dessus, dévoilant des cristaux clairs et laiteux. La zone étant riche en sulfates, il est très probable que ce soit des cristaux de gypse, parmi les plus beaux que je vois depuis le début de la mission ! 1/3