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Black Ball Ferry Terminal – Victoria side
- waiting to get on southbound Coho ferry (Black Ball Ferry Line)
Operated by: First Transit, Tempe, AZ
Built in: 2021
Manufacturer: Gillig Corporation
Model: Low Floor 29' CNG (G31E102R2)
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1663 seen at Tempe Transportation Center on Orbit Earth West
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Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucent Edita, from a Dutch Bible Amsterdam, 1663
This map exemplifies the combination of elegant design, skillful engraving, and artistic hand coloring characteristic of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. Current geographic knowledge of the world is displayed in two hemispheres. Diagrams at the top and bottom center illustrate concepts of the universe according to Copernicus and Ptolemy, respectively. The decorative borders contain conventional allegorical representations of the continents; Europe, in the upper left corner, is again seen as the dominant figure with symbols of her cultural and scientific superiority. The background landscapes portray indigenous animals and, in the case of America (lower right), natives engaged in torch-fishing. The map thus conveys information in the realms of geography, astronomy, natural history, ethnography, and mythology, and does so in an aesthetically pleasing fashion.
NASA's Mobile Launcher casts a reflection on the surface of an inland waterway in this sunrise photograph at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy is overseeing upgrades and modifications to the Mobile Launcher so it can carry the agency's Space Launch System and Orion Spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B.
Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky