Science Porn

[SteelCurtain]

Explanation: What has the Curiosity rover come across on Mars? Dubbed Mount Remarkable, the rolling robot has chanced upon this notable 5-meter tall mound during its continuing journey around and, eventually, up 5.5-kilometer high Mt. Sharp. Unsure of the density of the surrounding layered sandstone, the human team on Earth has instructed the car-sized rover on Mars to drill into a rock on the side of Mt. Remarkable to investigate. Quite possibly, water involved in creating the dense sandstone could have helped to support ancient life on the red planet. Mt. Sharp, the unusual central peak of Gale Crater, has a similar base-to-peak height as Earth's Mt. Everest.

[Mystical]

Oh I was not disappointed when I hopped in here, no sir. I knew exactly what kinda science porn I was getting into. ^_^

Here's one of my personal favorites. It's a cave that literally makes music at certain times, deep from within the earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av96j9m0jbc

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In hindsight, I had untold fortunes worth of "pretty rocks" piled up as a kid, living in a mountain valley. If only I'd known about ebay..

[Little lunch]

I wonder why the cave is secret?

[LastPoet]

*fap* fap *fap*...

[Anomalocaris]

Captured one night last May this eight frame mosaic starts on the left, down Northside Drive through Yosemite National Park. It ends thousands of light-years away though, as the arc of the Milky Way tracks toward the center of our galaxy on the right, far beyond the park's rugged skyline. That night was still moonless when the storm clouds retreated, so the rocky faces of the surrounding mountains are lit by campfires and artifical lights. Yosemite Falls is at the left. The granite face of Half Dome juts above the far horizon, near the center of the view. The remarkable flash above it is a bright meteor. Part of the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower the colorful streak is moving up, its trail pointing directly back to the shower's radiant, low in Aquarius. This year's Eta Aquarids should peak in the moonless early morning hours of May 6 as the Earth sweeps through dust from the tail of Comet Halley.

That is one awesome photo.

[SteelCurtain]

The Scale of the Universe

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[Mystical]

I wonder why the cave is secret?

Only the Hollow Earther's will ever know

[Little lunch]

'Cause if I happen to stumble across it one day I'm gonna shit my pants. :-)

[SteelCurtain]

Nighttime in the UK and northern lights from the ISS.

[popeyespappy]

Nighttime in the UK and northern lights from the ISS.

Looks like something captured from the new ISS HD Earth viewing experiment.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload

The video can be spectacular at times, and meh at others.