Wikipedia picture of the day on October 28, 2023: Reflection of the sky in the glass facade of a building in Parque Cultural Paulista located on Paulista Avenue, São Paulo, Brazil More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Smooth toadfish. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The smooth toadfish (Tetractenos glaber) is a species in the pufferfish family Tetraodontidae. It is native to shallow coastal and estuarine waters of southeastern Australia, where it is widespread and abundant. French naturalist Christophe-Paulin de La Poix de Fréminville described the species […]
Maricela Lizcano poses inside NASA Glenn Research Center’s Aerospace Communications Facility. via NASA
“You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Vision is the true creative rhythm.” – Robert Delaunay
History’s second known periodic comet is Comet Encke (2P/Encke). As it swings through the inner Solar System, Encke’s orbit takes it from an aphelion, its greatest distance from the Sun, inside the orbit of Jupiter to a perihelion just inside the orbit of Mercury. Returning to its perihelion every 3.3 years, Encke has the shortest […]
Rain today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 95 Humidity. 9 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Wikipedia article of the day is Battle of Settepozzi. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The Battle of Settepozzi was fought in 1263 off the Greek island of Spetses between a Genoese–Byzantine fleet and a Venetian fleet (Venetian galley pictured). Genoa had been engaged in the War of Saint Sabas against Venice since 1256, and had […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on October 27, 2023: Tübingen, Germany: the river Neckar between the island with its famous Plane trees avenue (at the left) and the old city (at the right) in autumn. More Info
NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems conducts a water flow test with the mobile launcher at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B in Florida on Oct. 24, 2023. It is the third in a series of tests to verify the overpressure protection and sound suppression system is ready for launch of the Artemis II mission. During liftoff, […]