A vivid blue coloration in the waves off the San Diego coast this month caused by bioluminescent planktonic dinoflagellates.
Category Archives: Nature
Luscious orangey footage of the sun and harvest moon (10/5/17) and the supermoon (1/1/18) over London by photographer Luke Miller.
Not quite as appealing as your outside voice. To wit:
This real-time MRI film shows live the movements in the mouth and pharynx during speech: The spatio-temporal coordination of the lips, tongue, soft palate and larynx becomes visible, which is necessary to form vowels, consonants and coarticulations
After a three year hiatus, the mighty ZeFrank returns with another True Facts animal video: in this instance, the wily Frogfish and how it do.
Previously: Things You Didn’t Know About Marsupials
Four seasons (from top: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer) on Kotisaari Island – a former lumberjack bolthole on the Kemi river near Rovaniemi in Finland captured by Laplander and photographer Jani Ylimampa.
Take a high resolution guided tour of the entire moon – North pole, South pole, near side, dark side, Apollo 17 lunar lander – courtesy of imagery from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.
Full screen for optimal effect.
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A gallery of satellite images taken – not vertically – but at an angle, published by Planet Labs.
To wit:
…the satellite imagery we’re most familiar with — taken straight down — flattens and obscures the visual cues we get from perspective, making the imagery appear like maps, not photos… from an angle, the view becomes altogether different: the mountains rise to their commanding height, valleys regain their depth, and background features recede into the distance. It’s like getting a view out the window of an airplane 450 kilometers high.
From top: Monte Fitz Roy in Patagonia; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Klyuchevskaya volcano in Russia and Bilbao in Spain.
Infrared photographs of the Dolomites reflected in an idyllic lake scene (where coniferous trees and other vegitation appear watermelon-pink as they reflect infrared light) by Paolo Pettigiani.
