These are so great. See them all at: Rosetta - an album on Flickr. … [Read more...]
The Ivanpah Solar project in pictures
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power plant located close to Las Vegas in the California Mojave Desert. 173,500 heliostats reflect the sun's rays at three solar power towers. Each tower features a water-filled receiver that generates high temperature steam when heated by the reflected energy. The farm has a planned capacity of 392 megawatts … [Read more...]
Stormscapes, a time-lapse view of storms
Here's our second time-lapse for this week: a beautiful film of thunderstorms and cloud formations on the Great Plains. Nicolaus Wegner shot the footage in Wyoming and South Dakota (home to some really big storms) during the summer of 2013. In the equipment listed for the shoot, Nicolaus includes: hail-dented Jeep. Watch the video below and you'll see why. [vimeo … [Read more...]
The Atlantic Ocean in 8 magnificent poses: photographs by Alessandro Puccinelli
I didn't grow up near the ocean. There was a little river about 20 minutes from our house by bicycle, and a lake 20 minutes further than that, but the ocean lay hours away. Whenever we visited the coast I wondered: Why don't we live here all the time? The ocean was unfathomable then, and it still is. Words can't fully describe it, but maybe these pictures by Alessandro … [Read more...]
An implausibility of wildebeest
It looks unreal, or too real, or maybe not real enough. It looks like a painting. Bonnie Cheung's caption reads: In July each year, this heart-pounding scene of wildebeests migration repeats itself in Kenya. This photo sums up so much about what wild is, as well as what we stand to lose when we standardize and commodify and box nature in. Implausibility is the collective noun … [Read more...]
Top 10 Photos of Earth
For most of us, seeing the Earth from space is only possible in our imagination. This Top 10 List of Earth Photos will show you what it looks like out there. Thanks to NASA who share photos of our planet all year round, we can see some amazing images and come to our own conclusions about what's going on with the planet we live on. See for yourself what the effects of storms, … [Read more...]
NASA Portrait of Global Aerosols
Have you ever wondered what climate scientists use to analyze the Earth’s atmosphere, the weather, global warming trends and climate change? Check out this amazing photo from NASA of the Earth showing global aerosols in the atmosphere. This is an image output by the Goddard Earth Observation System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5). GEOS-5 is an advanced software that runs on the … [Read more...]