The Daily Croissant

Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere

The Starry Night of Alamut

Image Credit & Copyright : Babak Tafreshi

Filed under  //   Astronomy   Earth   places  

Sunset from the ISS

 

Filed under  //   Astronomy   Earth  

Taxonomic Mandala of Life on Earth

Dion Wright
P.O. Box 2472
Flagstaff AZ 86003

520-526-1909
e-mail to: dionart@aol.com

Filed under  //   art   Earth   Life  

Islands of Four Mountains

Islands of the Four Mountains in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Filed under  //   Earth   places   Volcanoes  

Pingualuit Crater

This is Pingualuit Crater in northern Quebec, on Earth. It was first seen by a crew from a United States Army Air Force plane in 1943, and was one of the first craters in this region to be identified as an impact crater. This image was taken by NASA's Landsat 7 satellite on August 17, 2002. In this image, water appears blue, and land appears in varying shades of beige. The high latitude of the area limits vegetation, so thick, lush forests do not flourish in this region. In fact, the crater's name derives from an Inuktitut term for cold-weather-induced skin blemishes.

 

Filed under  //   Craters   Earth   places  

Beautiful Places On Earth

(download)
Morning Birdsong

 

Filed under  //   Earth   photography   places  

Decoding of the Wilton Windmill Crop Formation

A complex circular formation of twelve segments, with eight concentric lines of differing length and number in each segment. It is a close approximation of Leonhard Euler's profound and beautiful equation - e^(hi)pi)1=0

 

Filed under  //   art   Earth   Phenomena  

Infrared Earth

Credit: JAXA.

The Earth appears as a bright orange crescent in this infrared view taken by Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft on May 21, 2010 as it headed to Venus shortly after launch.

 

Filed under  //   Astronomy   Earth  

Home



A sliver of the crescent Earth shines in bright blue in this ultraviolet view of the planet taken May 21, 2010 by Japan's Akatsuki probe headed for Venus.

Filed under  //   Astronomy   Earth