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The Opus Dragonfly is a science/geographic research vessel that maps deep space and performs planet surveys by a low orbit skimming of atmospheres. It’s primarily task is searching for bio life however it also scans for mineral content and terraforming suitability.
Ship - BASCo Opus Dragonfly
Owner - British/American Space Exploration Corp (BASCo)
Hull - Samson Depak Freight-master
Length - 1400m
Width - 156m Body - 318m Total
Height - 105m Body - 178m Total
Weight - 768,000 1G Tonnes, Laden Gross
Cargo - 278,000 Tonnes
Propulsion - Rolls Royce Pico Particle/Proton Fusion Drive generating 9m Tones of thrust
Impulse Speed - 433ms unladen
Super-cruise speed - 18,000ms unladen
Jump Drive - General Electric. Jump Master VII
Jump Range - 4.2ly
Recharge Time - 132 Hours
Crew - 5
Passengers up to 12 Scientists/Technicians etc
Life support- 4 Years with full compliment
Aircraft - various roll RC Drones only
Weapons - None
Atmospheric Flight Capable - No
Great looking car. Marsha has some old National Geographics and has allowed me to scan a few ads. This is from May, 1927.
Hua Hin, Thailand. A variant painting of the famous 1983 National Geographic photograph by Steve McCurry.
2010 National Geographic Photography Contest Wallpaper
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Maresme. Catalonia.
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Maresme's territory occupies a long and narrow area between the Mediterranean Sea and the hills of Serralada Litoral (Catalonia's coastal mountains), and specifically Montnegre's and Corredor's hills in the northern half and Sant Mateu's hills in the southern half. This particular shape has conditioned both the geography and the history of this comarca. Probably the main distinct elements of its geography are the characteristic rieres (torrents). These short, intermittent water streams, which cross the comarca transversally almost every hundred meters, produce powerful and dangerous floods when it rains.
Canet des de els Tarongers
Maresme has been historically very well connected with the rest of the comarca as well as with Barcelona thanks to old Camí Ral (Royal Way) (actual N-II main road) and railroad (The Barcelona–Mataró railroad route, finished in 1848, was the first ever in all the Iberian Peninsula). Communications were enhanced in recent years with the construction of the C-32's Barcelona–Mataró section (1969), which was the first autopista (highway) ever in Spain, and its subsequent enlargement, the Mataró-Palafolls's section (1995).
I used a National Geographic for the back ground here......you can see its refraction in the water drop in the bottom of the picture.
A single image taken with a full set of Kenko extension tubes and a reversed Pentax f2. exp 1/160, f5.6, iso100.
The figures ahead were part of a few gangs of students most probably on a geography field trip.
Poppy thought it her job to round them up but of course I wouldn't let her ;D
Scans from the May 1973 issue of National Geographic.
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This is an equirectangular projection of composite satellite images from NASA. While it is clearly not my photo, I have included it here to demonstrate the interactive equirectangular projection tool on a familliar image (earth).
Aldo made a similar version that is flipped. That way when it is viewed interactivly it is as if you are on the inside of the earth looking out.
Here is the description of the equirectangular projection taken from www.wikipedia.com:
The plate carrée projection or geographic projection or equirectangular projection, is a very simple map projection that has been in use since the earliest days of spherical cartography. The name is from the French for "flat and square". It is a special case of the equidistant cylindrical projection in which the horizontal coordinate is the longitude and the vertical coordinate is the latitude.
The spherical earth can only be mapped onto a developable surface by allowing distortion, so certain geometric properties on the sphere are not preserved. The Plate Carrée projection is a cylindrical projection but unlike the Mercator projection, the entire sphere, including the poles can be represented on a finite sized map. The projection is not a conformal map so angles are not preserved.
Because of the distortions introduced by this projection, it has little use in navigation or cadastral mapping and finds its main use in thematic mapping. It has also become a de-facto standard for computer applications that process global maps, such as Celestia, because a given co-ordinate is very easily identifiable in an image file.
My favorite issue of National Geographic!!! =0)
I don't know what came to my mind that night but I was soooo bored and I had this photo so I created this "cover"! HAHA
Thanx Deniss for your small detail! ;0)
Reproduction of tile work from the Turkish Bath on the Titanic.
Robert Ballard is outspokenly opposed to any salvage operations at the wreck and this exhibit relies on items that were either carried off the ship by survivors of retrieved on the surface after the wreck.
There were also exhibited part of the set and some of the costumes from the film. Interesting in themselves they would make an interesting separate exhibit on Titanic fantasy fiction.
This one actually made the printed
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Burkina Faso and Mali have among the highest rates of child mortality in West Africa and the world. This map shows the decrease in child mortality when the levels of access to markets and infrastructure based on road quality and town size increase.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Emmanuelle Bournay, Philippe Rekacewicz
Pan Conrad, deputy principal investigator, Sample Analysis at Mars team, NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center, left, Ken Edgett, principal investigator, MAHLI Camera, Mars Exploration Program, John Grant, geologist and long-term planner, Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory, and, Marc Kaufman, space news writer, National Geographic and The Washington Post, and author of the new National Geographic book “Mars Up Close”, right, discuss what we’ve learned from Curiosity and the other Mars rovers during a “Mars Up Close” panel discussion, Tuesday, August 5, 2014, at the National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)