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Nearly 100 teams took part in the 2019 Human Exploration Rover Challenge, held April 12-13 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The competition, hosted by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, challenges high school and college teams to design, build and test human-powered roving vehicles inspired by the Apollo lunar missions and future exploration missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. This year’s competition marked 25 years since the inaugural event.
Image credit: NASA
Rover Challenge awards news release
Exploration Days, canoeing & Kayaking
June 19-21 at MSU, nearly 2,500 youth and chaperones from every MI county come stay on campus for 4-H Exploration Days-- a pre-college program to meet new people and experience the life of a Spartan.
Photo credit: Mariah Montenegro
Holiday exploration continues. Lydia made first contact with a new being. But what? It´s only decoration ?! What´s a pity. :-)
The Moravian–Silesian Beskids (Czech: Moravskoslezské Beskydy, Slovak: Moravsko-sliezske Beskydy) is a mountain range in the Czech Republic with a small part reaching to Slovakia. It lies on the historical division between Moravia and Silesia, hence the name. It is part of the Western Beskids, which is in turn part of the Outer Western Carpathians.
The mountains were created during the Alpine Orogeny in the Tertiary. Geologically, they consist mainly of flysch deposits. In the north, they steeply rise nearly 1,000 m (3,300 ft) over a rather flat landscape; in the south, they slowly merge with the Javorníky. In the south-west, they are separated from the Vsetínské vrchy by the Rožnovská Bečva valley; in the north-east, the Jablunkov Pass separates them from the Silesian Beskids.
The highest point is Lysá hora mountain at 1,323 m (4,341 ft), which is one of the rainiest places in the Czech Republic with around 1,500 mm (60 in) of precipitation a year. Many legends are bound to Radhošť Mountain, 1,129 m (3,704 ft), which is one of the most visited places in the mountains together with the nearby Pustevny resort.
The Moravian-Silesian Beskids create the largest part of the Beskydy Landscape Protected Area (Czech: Chráněná krajinná oblast Beskydy or Czech: CHKO Beskydy for short). The mountains are 80% forested, though mainly by plantations of spruce which were in some parts severely damaged by emissions from the Ostrava industrial region. Originally, the mountains were covered by mixed forest with dominant beech which are preserved in many places. Recently, permanent occurrence of all three large Central European carnivours – lynx, bear and wolf – have been confirmed in the area.
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During early May last year, I did another pro-longed weekend hike across the southeast part of the Moravian–Silesian Beskids - changing weather, fine views, solitude, and lots of freedom - it's an area definitely worth visiting and exploration.
This time, the itinerary was as follows: Soláň -> Bumbálka -> Konečná -> Švarná Hanka -> Slavíč -> Kozubová -> Návsí.
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took some time during its winter science campaign to image the surface of Victoria Crater as it drove closer to the Cape Verde cliff face. This false color image, taken a couple sols (martian days) after the Martian solstice (Sol 1570-1571), shows weathered rocks and abundant sand-size sediment on the surface just below the rim of Victoria Crater. Rock fragments on the surface show thin sediment beds indicative of aeolian or possibly aqueous deposition. Small ripples and wind tails on the sandy surface may be evidence of more recent wind-related processes at work.
I really want to incorporate reflections in my concentration because I love the variety of pictures I could take with it. Also maybe some black and white pictures for effect.
Exploration Days, canoeing & Kayaking
June 19-21 at MSU, nearly 2,500 youth and chaperones from every MI county come stay on campus for 4-H Exploration Days-- a pre-college program to meet new people and experience the life of a Spartan.
Photo credit: Mariah Montenegro
2013 Exploration Days, BioMedTech: Bionic Arm
June 19-21 at MSU, nearly 2,500 youth and chaperones from every MI county come stay on campus for 4-H Exploration Days-- a pre-college program to meet new people and experience the life of a Spartan.
Photo credit: Katie Gervasi
At Home. See the new kitten and cat photos here: cat-a-logues.blogspot.in/2013/11/when-kittens-play.html
www.flickr.com/photos/tofu_minx/4590307155/sizes/o/
special thanks to miss A.R and K for taking me along!
Exploration Days, court
June 19-21 at MSU, nearly 2,500 youth and chaperones from every MI county come stay on campus for 4-H Exploration Days-- a pre-college program to meet new people and experience the life of a Spartan.
Photo credit: Mariah Montenegro