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A meerkat on the lookout for danger as seen on the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail in the Africa section of Disney's Animal Kingdom.
Meerkats forage in a group with one "sentry" on guard watching for predators while the others search for food. Sentry duty is usually approximately an hour long. The meerkat standing guard makes peeping sounds when all is well. If the meerkat spots danger, it barks loudly or whistles. [wiki]
Disney's Animal Kingdom | Africa | Pangani Forest Exploration Trail
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Today's VIS image shows a portion of Shalbatana Vallis. Located in Xanthe Terra, Shalbatana Vallis is an outflow channel carved by massive floods of escaping groundwater whose source lies far to the south of this image. Shalbatana Vallis is over 1300 km long (808 miles). This channel, and all others in this region, drain into Chryse Planitia.
This martian scene spans 18 x 65 kilometers (11 x 40 miles). To see where on Mars this area lies, and to download high-resolution versions of the image go to themis.asu.edu/zoom-20211116a
See the Red Planet Report at redplanet.asu.edu for updates on Mars research and exploration. For more about Mars geology, check out the Mars-ePedia: marsed.asu.edu/marsepedia
For the latest THEMIS Mars images as received by mission scientists, see themis.asu.edu/livefrommars. To learn more about the THEMIS camera and its Mars images, see themis.asu.edu
This image is in the public domain and may be republished free of charge. If used, please credit it as NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University.
"The world's a playground. Somewhere along the way everyone forgets it." - Yes Man
Having someone with you as you explore new paths and see where things lead sure makes the experience so much more memorable.
At the dawn of new lunar exploration campaigns, scheduled for the years to come, in order to detect and map the location of important natural elements such as hydrogen, oxygen and lunar water, our project “Moon Exploration” commemorates the lunar exploration missions, 50 years ago now!
At Minifigure scale (1/42), our 302 bricks design includes:
-A display base measuring 26 x 18 studs (20.8 x 14.4 cm) with, inscribed on its periphery, the 12 astronauts’ names who walked on the Moon.
-The Moon Buggy (LRV: Lunar Roving Vehicle) designed to help astronauts explore the surface of the moon.
For more playability, like in real life, our model includes all the on-board instruments and can be folded up to fit in a volume of 6 x 6 x 9 studs.
- Retro-reflector (LLRE: Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment) that accurately measures the earth-moon distance and its variations with the round trip of a laser pulse sent from the Earth.
-Seismometer (PSEP: Passive Seismic Experiment Package) Fully autonomous with orientable solar panels and a telecommunications system. It also comprises a lunar dust detector.
-Two astronauts and the American flag.
The 166-page building guide .pdf includes the building instructions, the printable decals sheet and two bricks lists.
If you wish to purchase this 15€ building guide, please send your request only by email to: aloha.bricks@free.fr
Guess who is in this moon suit. Famous NASA personality. Very well-known figure from the Apollo era. See if you can guess.
NASA image is in the public domain and may not be copyrighted by anyone.
We were invited to a closed competition to redesign the logo of the university. The design should have reflected the same-time presence of art and design. Altough it had to be flexible enough to a future expansion. So we came up with the idea of a visual multiplication table. Our proposal did not win.
Gunkanjima (Hashima) Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
The ultimate kingdom of urban exploration – the famous Battleship Island (Hashima).
At some point in its history it was the most densly populated island on the globe. It was utterly abandoned in 1974 but its location and claustrophobic concrete canyons are a sight to behold.
This is a digitally modified and geotagged image from Google Street View.
The original GSV is at: goo.gl/maps/P4I65 and is copyrighted by Google.
Stylized version originally developed for Artistic Google project by Piotr Tymiński.
This photo is Best on black at Fluidr
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The Mobile Exploration Rover, meanwhile, is a fairly simple modification of existing set 60225-1 Rover Testing Drive.
By replacing the gunmetal Mars Mission-style wheels with rubber-tyred ones from two copies of 70821-1 Emmett and Benny's Build & Fix Workshop, and systematically stripping away anachronistic Pearl Gold and Trans-Black parts, I've made a pretty coherent homage to the latter-day "white vehicle" aesthetic first appearing in 1983 but taking center-stage in '87. To that end, it's being driven around by a blue Spacer minifig, which is associated with that era through sets like 6972 Polaris I Space Lab!
It's not a perfect encapsulation of the design sensibilities - especially with the claw arm in orange instead of blue, due to the new clamp-half piece only being available in Bright Orange - but I feel like it doesn't look completely out-of-place amongst those builds. It's definitely super fun to drive it around and have the arm pick up random parts to place in its truck bed, at least!
Two extra 13-long technic beams were requisitioned from my pile of parts in order to mount the wheels the desired width away from the body. I do not know the set these came from, but it would not surprise me if it was a BIONICLE set from the mid-2000's.
"Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars." -Carl Sagan
This is a vigilance class exploration pod, or 'stickpod'. Built for exploration on alien worlds it is equipped with tools for taking samples, photos, and gathering information. Since it is not a battle mech it is not armed with lethal weapons, but it is installed with a high voltage taser for incapacitating any hostiles it might encounter. It only takes one human pilot to control the machine, but it can also be operated remotely from the cruisers orbiting the planet if necessary.
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and Lockheed Martin CEO and President Marillyn Hewson shake hands after signing a Space Act Agreement that enables the NASA Exploration Design Challenge for students.
Learn more about the challenge: www.nasa.gov/education/edc
Learn more about the Orion spacecraft: www.lockheedmartin.com/orion
This is quite a departure from what I normally posted here to Flickr and is most likely going to be what I post here going forward. This image is made up entirely of photos and 3D renders that are not my own. I had no idea such an artform existed 6 months ago, but my journey into 3D has taken me all over the place, including into digital matte painting and photobash territories. I had no idea there were so many photographers selling their work for the sole purpose of DMP and photobashing. There are whole sites dedicated to these artforms. I only intended to use the photo packs I purchased as texture resources for my 3D renders, but so many of the photos have inspired me to photobash together new worlds and environments, such as the "plate" I have used here, which is the building interior. I plan to make many more of these as I have so many magical photos to choose from.
This image is made up of the plate image from a photopack I got on Artstation, a Photobash png cutout, and 3D renders from Envato Elements. Everything was put together in Photoshop.
The main focus of the third session of Pangaea is volcanism. Lessons on the first day emphasized types of lavas and volcanoes found across Earth, Mars and the Moon.
ESA’s Pangaea training course prepares astronauts and space engineers to identify planetary geological features for future missions to the Moon, Mars and asteroids.
Leading European planetary geologists share their insights into the geology of the Solar System.
Through Pangaea, Europe is developing operational concepts for surface missions where astronauts and robots work together, among themselves and with scientists and engineers on Earth, using the best field geology and planetary observation techniques.
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Credits: ESA–A. Romeo
"In a transparent dome of plastic, the human Hilde I. Sandvold and thousands of mealworms live side by side. The micro universe is created solely of white foam plastic. Apart from being a huge part of our human throw-away mentality, this kind of plastic also happens to be a nourishment that pleases the ever-hungry mealworms. The potential is born for a new form of symbiosis between species. An organism capable of living from plastic could be the beginning of a new blooming of species on earth."
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