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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Gulf of Kutch – also known as the Gulf of Kachchh – an inlet of the Arabian Sea, along the west coast of India.
The Gulf of Kutch divides the Kutch and the Kathiawar peninsula regions in the state of Gujarat. Reaching eastward for around 150 km, the gulf varies in width from approximately 15 to 65 km. The area is renowned for extreme daily tides which often cover the lower lying areas – comprising networks of creeks, wetlands and alluvial tidal flats in the interior region.
Gujarat is the largest salt producing state in India. Some of the white rectangles dotted around the image are salt evaporation ponds which are often found in major salt-producing areas. The arid climate in the region favours the evaporation of water from the salt ponds.
Just north of the area pictured here, lies the Great Rann of Kutch, a seasonal salt marsh located in the Thar desert. The Rann is considered the largest salt desert in the world.
The Gulf of Kutch has several ports including Okha (at the entrance of the gulf), Māndvi, Bedi, and Kandla. Kandla, visible on the northern peninsula in the left of the image, is one of the largest ports in India by volume of cargo handled.
The gulf is rich in marine biodiversity. Part of the southern coast of the Gulf of Kutch was declared Marine Sanctuary and Marine National Park in 1980 and 1982 respectively – the first marine conservatory established in India. The park covers an area of around 270 sq km, from Okha in the south (not visible) to Jodiya. There are hundreds of species of coral in the park, as well as algae, sponges and mangroves.
Copernicus Sentinel-2 is a two-satellite mission. Each satellite carries a high-resolution camera that images Earth’s surface in 13 spectral bands. The mission’s frequent revisits over the same area and high spatial resolution allow changes in water bodies to be closely monitored.
This image, acquired on 4 April 2020, is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
A big harvest this year, this group of woodpeckers have been harvesting for over 6 weeks, and have created two new granaries to store their acorns, this one on the roofs of several houses, and another on a palm tree. Normally they just use an old oak tree. It's so crazy now that they have to hop from tile to tile trying to find room for just one more acorn.
Loved this redhead's shadow too, with its big acorn revealed, and how clearly you can see how they use their tails to steady themselves.
Fascinating, innovative, super social creatures.
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It turns out that 2016 had one last treasure to offer up, my son James and I spotted a whale just off the coast yesterday. It was a little far away, but a fluke's a fluke! I think it was a humpback, but I'm no expert.
This is a closer image I got earlier in 2016 - Link.
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An aluminum pirate statue in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Seriously bad ass, no?
So, existential question. How do Pirates know they exist?
A: They think, therefore they Arrrrr!
My enterprising buddies, the acorn woodpeckers are also using palm trees for their granary this year. So they've got acorns stashed deep in the trunk of this palm tree, which is easily 100 foot up off the ground.
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Reflections. The normally shallow, placid Deepdene Creek flooded its banks during a winter storm.
DeKalb County (Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
12 December 2021.
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▶ The Deepdene Park trail normally meanders within these trees but, now, it and the trees are inundated by the Deepdene Creek. The base of a large Tulip Poplar tree (to right, out of frame) is also submerged, including a park sign at its base, identifying the tree, at 185 1/2 feet, as Atlanta's tallest.
▶ The park posted a warning message to its website concerning the flooding:
"The drain at the west end of the forest is completely clogged which has flooded the stream area and trail. There was also a sewer spill at Azalea Park and East Lake that may have contaminated the Deepdene stream. Please stay out of this area until it has been cleaned up. Do not let your kids and dogs walk through this area."
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Help with identification appreciated. Estero Bluffs State Park California - from the Franciscan Complex or Assemblage - Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous
Somewhere on the shores of Lake Superior within the bounds of Split Rock Lighthouse State Park. (www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/split_rock_lighthouse/ind...)
The Mercado dos Lavradores, in the center of Funchal, Madeira, a Portuguese protectorate, offers fish not often seen elsewhere. Here is the Espada Preta which some call the black scabbard.
The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this Picture of the Week reached the telescope after a journey of 250 million years. Its source was the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre). At first glance, UGC 11397 appears to be an average spiral galaxy: it sports two graceful spiral arms that are illuminated by stars and defined by dark, clumpy clouds of dust.
What sets UGC 11397 apart from a typical spiral lies at its centre, where a supermassive black hole containing 174 million times the mass of the Sun is growing. As a black hole ensnares gas, dust, and even entire stars from its vicinity, this doomed matter heats up and puts on a fantastic cosmic light show. Material trapped by the black hole emits light from gamma rays to radio waves and can brighten and fade without warning. But in some galaxies, including UGC 11397, thick clouds of dust hide much of this energetic activity from view in optical light. Despite this, UGC 11397's actively growing black hole was revealed through its bright X-ray emission — high-energy light that can pierce the surrounding dust. This led astronomers to classify it as a Type 2 Seyfert galaxy, a category used for active galaxies whose central regions are hidden from view in visible light by a doughnut-shaped cloud of dust and gas.
Using Hubble, researchers will study hundreds of galaxies that, like UGC 11397, harbour a supermassive black hole that is gaining mass. The Hubble observations will help researchers weigh nearby supermassive black holes, understand how black holes grew early in the Universe’s history, and even study how stars form in the extreme environment found at the very centre of a galaxy.
[Image Description: A spiral galaxy, seen at an angle that gives it an oval shape. It has two spiral arms that curl out from the centre. They start narrow but broaden out as they wrap around the galaxy before merging into a faint halo. The galaxy’s disc is golden in the centre with a bright core, and pale blue outside that. A swirl of dark dust strands and speckled blue star-forming regions follow the arms through the disc.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth; CC BY 4.0
Roadside shot in Milnthorpe. Cumbria.
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Long day and long week- great to pour a glass of wine and do some Flickr.
Stomoxys calcitrans - Stable fly.
Now i have learned to ID this fly (& examine the visitors to the patio table with the Raynox) I am realising this species is by far the main lander on our patio table. They dont bother us at all -Actually no one ever gets any bites at all here except very, very occasionally from Culicoides midges on muggy summer evenings. I am glad our stable flies are better behaved around humans that they seem to be in other parts of the world.
They often say that Swiss trains run like clockwork, which in the case of the train to Zermatt is also literally true, as it runs on a cogwheel system!
The train engages the cog system on steep parts to avoid slipping back down the hill, or going down too quickly in the other direction.
A Northern Cardinal on Avery Island, Louisiana, near dusk, hence the very soft focus. They must have been the models for angry birds, right?
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Piedra llamada "El Centinela" que le da nombre al cerro que se encuentra a unos 5km de la ciudad de Tandil
I am definitely a sourdough bore these days!
This one today was particularly good though.
So posting one more sour dough picture ...last for a while I promise
This one was:
50% white 50 % coarse wholemeal
lots of nuts: pecan and walnut - pulverised
and sunflower hearts and black sesame seeds
...& a good glug of olive oil too
The Clash - One More Time
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California tends to be left leaning, but I guess sometimes it's just good advice!
Out and about on Mount Tamalpais with the mountain meadows covered in Spring flowers and the roads lined with golden poppies.
Autumn pine forest trail from North Point State Park in Edgemere, Maryland (USA).
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