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From 1230 to 1283 the Teutonic Order conquered the entire territory of the Slavic Prussians. In 1243 the bishop of Warmia received 1/3 of the territory of his diocese for his maintenance. The town was founded in 1353 under the name of Allensteyn by the chapter of the cathedral of Warmia on its territory. At that time, the castle was already under construction.
In 1454 the town joined the Prussian Confederation against the Teutonic Order. The townspeople captured the castle and recognized the sovereignty of the Polish king, but a year later the town was reconquered by the Teutonic Order. During the war the town was in flames several times. By the peace treaty in 1466, Olsztyn and the entire Duchy of Warmia came under Polish sovereignty.
For centuries the city was an important centre of trade, crafts, science and administration in the Warmia region.
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543) was a canon of the prince-bishopric of Warmia as well as an astronomer and physician who also devoted himself to mathematics and cartography.
In his main work "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" of 1543, he describes a heliocentric view of the world, according to which the Earth is a planet, rotates on its own axis and also moves around the Sun like the other planets. The reception of the work led to the "Copernican turn", which in science is one of the caesuras marking the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern era.
Nicolaus Copernicus resided from 1516 to 1521 in the Zamek Kapituły Warmińskiej (Olsztyn Castle).
A smoke plume from the Yosemite National Park wildfire was visible from space on the afternoon of 11 July (top-left), via the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite's Ocean and Land Colour Instrument.
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite's OLCI instrument captured these clouds over the west coast of Africa early yesterday morning on 01.12.21.
Edited Copernicus Sentinel/NASA-JPL visualization of blast damage from the explosion in the Port of Beirut on 4 August 2020. Color/processing variant.
Image source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147098/scientists-map-be...
Original caption: On August 4, 2020, a devastating explosion rocked the port area around Beirut, Lebanon. After the event, scientists used satellite radar imagery to map the extent of the damage and help identify areas where people may need assistance.
According to the Associated Press, a fire near the port ignited a large nearby store of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical often used in fertilizer. At least 135 people died, about 5,000 were wounded, and at least 300,000 people were left homeless. Losses from the blast are estimated to be at least $10 to $15 billion, according to news reports.
The image above is a damage proxy map created by scientists affiliated with NASA’s Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team and the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS). Dark red pixels represent the most severe damage, while orange and yellow areas are moderately or partially damaged. Each colored pixel represents an area of 30 meters by 30 meters (about the size of a baseball infield).
The team at ARIA (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and EOS examined synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data collected before and after the explosion, mapping changes in the land surface and built structures. SAR instruments send pulses of microwaves toward Earth’s surface and listen for the reflections of those waves. The radar waves can penetrate cloud cover, vegetation, and the dark of night to detect changes that might not show up in visible light imagery. When Earth’s crust moves due to an earthquake, when dry land is suddenly covered by flood water, or when buildings have been damaged or toppled, the amplitude and phase of radar wave reflections changes in those areas and indicates to the satellite that something on the ground has changed.
Though other U.S. and international agencies play more immediate roles in response to disasters, NASA plays a role in providing observations and analysis. Over the past decade, NASA has actively built its capacity to share Earth observations that can improve the prediction of, preparation for, response to, and recovery from natural and technological disasters. For instance, NASA often responds to calls for data and imagery from the International Charter for Space and Major Disasters.
“We look at areas of likely exposed populations and fragile infrastructure, as well as areas subject to social stresses and crises. We model and map risks, while also tracking emissions, debris, infrastructure damage, and other effects from things like volcanic eruptions, fires, industrial accidents, earthquakes, and floods,” said David Green, head of NASA’s Disasters Applications team. “Our observations and analyses can help our partners increase their situational awareness of systemic risks and of real-time events, leading to better-informed decisions and early action.”
NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020) processed by ESA and analyzed by Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) in collaboration with NASA-JPL and Caltech, Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and data from OpenStreetMap. Story by Esprit Smith, NASA's Earth Science News Team, and Michael Carlowicz.
Copernicus Sentinel-5 integrated into the MetOp-SG-A satellite in the cleanroom at the Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France.
While not a satellite in the traditional sense, Sentinel-5 is a Copernicus mission carried on the MetOp Second Generation A-type weather satellites. With its 2700 km-wide swath, Sentinel-5 will offer full global coverage every day to measure the distribution of atmospheric trace gases such as ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, formaldehyde, glyoxal, carbon monoxide, and methane, as well as aerosols. These gases can not only affect the air we breathe, but also our climate.
Credits: ESA - S.Corvaja
The evening of 02.12.14 was reasonably clear here. Managed to carry out some lunar imaging. Clear it may have been but seeing was not good with the moon`s features swimming nicely in and out of focus!
This bronze statue of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) is located on Krakowskie Przedmieście, in front of the Staszic Palace, the seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It was designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1822 and completed in 1830. The monument was funded by the scientist and philosopher Stanisław Staszic as well as donations from the general public.
Soon after the German occupation of Warsaw began in 1939, they placed a large plaque over the statue’s pedestal, proclaiming Copernicus to have been German....
On 11th February 1942, a "minor sabotage" operation was carried out by Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski (code name “Alek”), a young Polish resistance fighter from the “Szare Szeregi” organisation, who removed and hid the German plaque.
Minor sabotage: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_sabotage
The Germans responded by removing the Jan Kiliński statue from Krasińskich Square and hiding it in the vaults of the National Museum. Dawidowski and his comrades in the Szare Szeregi retaliated by daubing the museum with graffiti which stated: "People of Warsaw - I am here - Jan Kiliński", and adding a new plaque to the Copernicus monument on which they had written the following words: "For the removal of the Kiliński statue I am extending winter by two months - Kopernik"....
Szare Szeregi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Ranks
The statue was damaged during the Warsaw Uprising, after which the Germans knocked it off its pedestal and subsequently stole it as they were evacuating Warsaw. It was later found in the town of Nysa, restored and replaced in its original location in 1949.
In 2007 a representation of Copernicus’ solar system, modelled after an image in his “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium”, was embedded in the square in front of the monument.
In 2017 a plaque commemorating Dawidowski’s action was placed next to the monument.
There are replicas of the Copernicus monument in Montreal and Chicago....
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite takes us over Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Famous as a resort on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, this coastal strip along the Red Sea is peppered with bars, restaurants and hotels. The ancient Greeks and Romans are thought to have taken their holidays in Egypt as long ago as the 4th century BC.
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This striking true-colour image shows the Gulf of Aqaba at the top centre, feeding into the Red Sea – home to some of the hottest and saltiest seawater in the world. The Red Sea is connected to the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal, one of the world’s busiest waterways.
Usually an intense blue-green, as captured in this image, the Red Sea is known, on occasion, to turn reddish-brown owing to algal blooms, which change the colour of the sea when they die off.
The area offers many opportunities for diving. In the centre of the image we can see a series of coral reefs, which host rich marine life. The variations in the colour of the water surrounding the islands and in the right of the image represent the depth of water – the lighter areas show more shallow waters than the vast expanse of deep blue, which dominates the image.
In the top-right of the image we can see the western tip of mainland Saudi Araba – the beautiful and uninhabited sandy cape of Ras Al-Sheikh Hameed. Here, the red colour represents areas with higher levels of moisture in an arid, desert landscape, whilst the white colour represents salt.
Sentinel-2 is a two-satellite mission for land monitoring, providing imagery of soil and water cover, inland waterways and coastal areas, for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme.
This image, which was captured on 11 April 2017, is also featured on the Earth from Space programme.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
At an event in Paris on 9 February, 2016, CEO of Thales Alenia Space, Jean-Loïc Galle, and Director of ESA’s Earth Observation Programmes, Volker Liebig, signed a €450 million contract to build two more satellites for the Sentinel-3 mission.
From left to right: Jean Jacques Juillet, European Programme Director, Thales Alenia Space; Volker Liebig, Director of ESA’s Earth Observation Programmes; Jean-Loïc Galle, CEO of Thales Alenia Space; Jan Woerner, ESA Director General; Peter Breger, Deputy Head of Copernicus Unit, EC DG GROW; Joël Barre, General Director CNES; and Guido Levrini, Copernicus Space Segment Programme Manager, ESA, attended the contract signature ceremony.
Credit: ESA–Nadia Imbert-Vier 2016
Sentinel-1D has been transported from the cleanroom in Cannes, France, via Turin, Italy, all the way to French Guiana. The launch campaign is now underway to prepare the satellite for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket at the end of 2025.
The fourth satellite of the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission will continue the critical task of delivering key radar imagery of Earth’s surface for a wide range of Copernicus services and scientific applications.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique vidéo du CSG–C. Gallo
The Liberian Registered & Norwegian Owned Tanker " Copernicus" seen arriving at King George Dock Hull,
EUMETSAT and Copernicus services holding the "Copernicus Byte".
More information about this event: bit.ly/1l2XrsS
Copyright: 2014 EUMETSAT
The huge tidal range (over 10 m) in the Mont-Saint-Michel Bay, France.
Sentinel-2 L1C imagery processed with Sentinel Hub and #eolearn. Clear observations (< 5% cloud coverage) between January 2017 and May 2020. The images were sorted based on water coverage (not chronological), where water was detected via NDWI.
Author: Matic Lubej
This spectacular LROC mosaic of Copernicus Crater (~93 km diameter) on the Moon shows multiple examples of impact melt on the crater’s northern wall. Copernicus, located at 9.6°N, 20.1°W, is one of the youngest large craters on the Moon, and defines the Copernican period of lunar stratigraphy.
One particularly interesting flow of impact melt can be seen at the left of this image, where channelized flows can be seen. The floor of the crater can be seen at the bottom of the image, where several hummocks, possibly part of the original floor, peak through the veneer of impact melt.
This is reloaded, by request, by furnishing instrument and by accident, as part of Jarl van Hoother's continuing series, concerning itself, as it does, with the study, deconstruction and reinterpretation of public statuary, with particular reference to Acker's Third Law Of Unforeseen Outcome, and its corollary - although unintentionally disproven syllogistically ab initio - The Intrepid Entropic Anthropy To Cause And Effect, But Not Necessarily In That Order pt. 17 b. II(a) revised.
This statue is supposed to represent Copernicus, and it shows him as as a handsome youth, with flowing hair and robes, taking a tentative, but firm heroic stride forward in his cowboy boots. He holds his heliocentric model proudly, and strikes it as if it were an instrument, as if he played on it the music of the spheres. His eyes are downcast, and his gaze seems relaxed, yet concentrated on the armillary.
The plinth on which he is raised, but from which he is strangely disconnected, is decorated with a quadruplicated globe motif, to which gilded vegetative designs are attached. Copernicus himself is shown perched on his book of mathematical proofs, which serves to remove, distance and sanitise him from any earthly connection whatsoever.
Copernicus seems confident and easy in the knowledge that he has revolutionised the history of science.
Or Is He???
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On an open - and closer - inspection, Copernicus is quite patently a bedraggled imbecile, with a blank and vacant look about him. Unkempt and unshorn, he wanders perilously close to the edge of his plinth.
While shown striding forward, Copernicus' weight is quite obviously on his back foot, and his forward step merely a pose, with no conviction or intent at a forward movement. In fact it is a cowardly stance, with a quivering posture, along with a concertina-type sock effect. His rear, or right leg also shows a suspicious bellows-like ankle inflation. This is typical of an uncourageous morbid flatulence, well known at the time, and characteristically kept within the hose.
His shabby oufit belongs to a man more used to begging and rooting in bins, than someone sorting out the mechanics of the Solar System. No collar - and no tie! And a lousy grandad vest, with buttons missing. What a getup! Hardly the uniform of a chap you'd see down at the Large Hadron Collider.
His hands also betray an unconvincing grasp on his subject - Copernicus' left hand is poised to fling away the armillary, just as soon as he untangles his right ring finger, which is caught in the mechanism. When he finally extricates that finger from the orbit of Saturn, his left hand will fire that toy into the nearest ditch.
His ascetic monkish upbringing will not allow the pain of the trapped finger to show on his face - or will it..... look again at that left eyebrow, the downturned corner of the mouth.... a slight petulance there? Perhaps even disgruntled annoyance?
The dead duck that Copernicus carries over his right shoulder, is a symbol of his failed unworkable heliocentric model of the solar system. A "dead duck" is common parlance for, and is seen to be symbolic of, a useless failure, and an unfeasible ideology. The "sun-centered" planetary system of Copernicus never took off, despite the enthusiastic backing of the Pope, and flew like a "dead duck", even with all the weight of the Catholic Church dragging it up, and the light cast on it by the Inquisition.
On further looking, Copernicus has a look of shame about him, and seems to be trying to hide or cast away the humiliating mechanism, which his face clearly shows has now become a tedious embarrassment.
A further clue to the truth is shown in the plinth decoration, stressing the earth and its vegetation (four times!) as the fundament, centre, axis and fulcrum of the system. The leafy growth seems to creep closer to Copernicus' book of nonsense, and will soon swallow it.
The book itself, seen by some misguided idiots (Brahe, Kepler, Newton, Einstein etc.) as evidence of a thread of common sense in humanity, from Ptolemy to the Egyptians through the Greeks, down through the Romans, Nubians, Goths, Huns, Visigoths, Aztecs, Incas, Thracians, Gauls, Icenii, Persians, Germanic tribes, Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Celts, Britons, Picts, Nova Scotians, Lobster Fishermen, Legion Of Mary, Girls From Waterford, Norwegians, FAI etc. - that book IS placed under the feet of Copernicus - is he wiping his feet on it? Is he cleaning his elegant boots on the filthy disgraceful tome of his "sun-centred" nonsense?
- You bet he is!
What more do we need to see in this representation? What would we see that shows us that Copernicus (if indeed it is him) hated and loathed the nonsensical heretical heliocentric absurdity with which his name will always be tied, and from which he tried in vain to disassociate himself while alive, and who, even in stone, has the shape and figure of a pathetic sham, still trying, like some old Buster Keaton figure, to dump something that is just going to stick like glue, forever.
The final clue and proof, as if further proof were needed, is shown in the gold coloured emblem under Copernicus. This clearly shows God himself revealing the fact that the earth is a flat object, held up on its wings by a Gryphon like creature, none other than Satan in fact. The earth is supported on the resilient shoulders of The Devil himself, he holds it up, he always did and he always will, and none of your atomic geometric physsics hydro-helium nonsense.
Look again at Copernicus and see the shame, the humiliation, the petulance, the embarrassment, the pain.... and yes, the misery of that haircut.
Iconic terraced and twin-peaked complex crater with a diameter of 96km. The small double crater at 7 oclock is Fauth.
Lunar 100 targets:
Copernicus is (L5).
A very small crater surrounded by dark lava at 5 oclock to Copernicus is Copernicus H (L74).
Near the bottom of the image are two side-by-side eroded craters with a larger eroded crater above - the larger crater is Fra Mauro (L17) it is filled with ejecta from other impacts.
Nexstar 8SE SCT
PGR Grasshopper 3 CCD camera with Red 2c filter
Firecapture acquisition software
Ioptron ZEQ25GT mount
C8 + Camera (Film)
Film Stacking and TOPAZ AI Sharpen Stabilize
Zoom in please for more details
ps : upscaled to 1600 with gigapixel because the original size was 1400 so flickr displayed it in 1024 only.
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Wroclaw Copernicus Airport -
Port Lotniczy Wrocław im. Mikołaja Kopernika
Location: Strachowice, Wroclaw, Poland
Built: 2009-2012
Architects: JSK Architekci (Poland)
Total area: 40815 m2
Cubature: 328140 m3
Cost: 296 mln PLN
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Moon Phase:Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 69% and growing
The moon slowly moves on to reach the magnificent full status... During a Waxing Gibbous, the Moon will rise in the East in mid afternoon and will be high in the Eastern sky at Sunset.
Satellite: Sentinel-2.
Visualization RGB: bands 4 (red), 3 (green), 2 (blue). True color.
La imagen tiene 108 km de ancho (aprox.)
---Grand Canyon and Kaibab Plateau---
En la imagen, el río Colorado entra por el NE procedente del lago Powell y fluye de norte a sur, a la derecha de la Meseta de Kaibab (la zona cubierta de nieve). A continuación bordea la meseta y corre en el centro de la imagen hacia el NO.
El Gran Cañón (en inglés, Grand Canyon), también conocido en español como Gran Cañón del Colorado, es una vistosa y escarpada garganta excavada por el río Colorado a lo largo de millones de años en el norte de Arizona, Estados Unidos. Está situado en su mayor parte dentro del Parque nacional del Gran Cañón (uno de los primeros parques naturales de los Estados Unidos). Fue declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad en 1979 por la Unesco. (es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Ca%C3%B1%C3%B3n)
La meseta de Kaibab forma parte de la Meseta del Colorado. Colinda al sur con el Gran Cañón y alcanza los 2817 metros s.n.m. La meseta se divide entre el Bosque Nacional de Kaibab y la zona del borde norte del Parque nacional del Gran Cañón. La meseta está densamente poblada por especies de árboles tales como álamos, píceas, abetos, pino real americano, enebros y pinos piñoneros, contrastando fuertemente con las áridas tierras bajas que lo rodean. (es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meseta_de_Kaibab)
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