Great uplifting video filmed where my son is currently residing just a couple of blocks from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Source: montereybayaquarium.org
Really good in full screen mode.
Great uplifting video filmed where my son is currently residing just a couple of blocks from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Really good in full screen mode.
"Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change" is an excellent story in the NY Times chronicling a period between 1979 and 1989 when the US and the rest of the world tried and failed to take action that would have seriously addressed climate change (global warming) ...
A new super-high-resolution Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) has been published that is the highest resolution map ever created of any continent according to an article on Gizmodo's Earther page ...
This map image is from smokymountains.com. On the linked website the map is interactive. The user can slide the button along the date bar and see the status of leaves across the country for the selected autumn date.
The site also contains interesting information on why and how leaves change their colors and fall to the ground prior to the onset of winter.
This tour of the Moon was developed by NASA from images and maps obtained from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. To best experience the combined effects of the music and the images, view in full screen mode and imagine you are lying on your back in a grassy field at night looking up at the moon through a pair of super magnifying glasses.
You would notice the multitude of impact craters that pockmark the surface of the Moon. The reason those craters have persisted for up to 4.5 billion years is because the Moon has no atmosphere and therefore no rain, no snow, no ice, no running water, no wind, nor any of the other weathering and erosion agents present on Earth, including recycling of the Earth's crust owing to plate tectonics. The Moon also has no life, which provides the vegetative cover that tends to hide (along with the oceans) much of the evidence for any craters that have persisted in some form on Earth (for an exception, see Meteor Crater in Arizona). If the Earth had no atmosphere and no plate tectonics, it's surface would look very similar to the Moon's. Makes one appreciate and want to protect the very thin (60-miles thick) layer of air that blankets our planet.
Here is the narrative that accompanies the video ...