Four reindeer walk past the BARREL payload on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden. The BARREL team was at Esrange Space Center launching a series of six scientific payloads on miniature scientific balloons. The NASA-funded BARREL – which stands for Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses – primarily measured X-rays […]

“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.” – Hedy Lamarr

“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A single 183 day exposure with a pinhole camera and photographic paper resulted in this long-duration solargraph. Recorded from solstice to solstice, June 21 to December 21, in 2022, it follows the Sun’s daily arcing path through planet Earth’s skies from Mertola, Portugal. On June 21, the Sun’s highest point and longest arc represents the […]

Showers today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 79 Humidity. 8 C currently. 27 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Wikipedia picture of the day on December 22, 2023: A view of Kalabaka from Meteora, Greece More Info

Wikipedia article of the day is Antarctica. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole, first reached in 1911 by Norwegian explorers. Antarctica is, on average, the coldest, driest, and windiest […]

Artemis II crew members: CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, left, NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, right, pose for a group photograph after their meetings with U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. During their mission, the […]

“Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.” – Dennis Franz

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.” – Igor Stravinsky