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One more from the series "The Search for Extrasolar Planets." I haven't uploaded lately cause I've been working on my garden and enjoying the nice weather, it finally warmed up ;-)
The inspiration for this series was the current fallout situation in Japan.
I've been worrying more than is healthy, and then began thinking that the future is that of a dead Earth, and the few humans have mutated into creatures with no pigmentation, mimicking the post-fallout moonscape, and they've began a quest to find a planet that supports life.
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Combating climate change and making the planet greener and cleaner is an issue for everyone. Climate change is no longer a distant, futuristic scenario, but an immediate threat. How times have changed since World Environment Day was launched by the United Nations General Assembly 36 years ago. We wonder if they considered then that today climate change, global warming, natural disasters and the effects of global climate change --- deforestation, desertification, flooding, sea-level rise, beach erosion and other environmental impacts would have such an impact on world hunger and poverty.
Climate change is expected to put an estimated 50 million more people at risk of hunger and water stress by 2020. By 2050 a third of the people on Earth may lack a clean, secure source of water. It poses a serious threat to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially during a period of global economic recession, when resources needed to cope with climate change may be reassigned.
Poor people in developing countries are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The negative impacts on their crop yields are already being felt and will be increasingly severe. Climate change is likely to affect forest expansion and migration, and exacerbate threats to biodiversity resulting from land use/cover change and population pressure. Marine and coastal ecosystems are likely to be affected by sea level rise and temperature increases. Human health will also be adversely affected. Rising temperatures and rainfall variability had led to more climate-induced diseases and heat stress. Experts predict climate change-related stresses -- including disasters, food and water shortages and conflicts over scarce resources -- could permanently uproot 200 to 250 million people by mid-century. In many countries defence forces might find themselves torn between humanitarian relief operations and guarding their borders against climate refugees, as climate change and scarce resources, forcing millions of climate refugees across the borders.
United Nations demographers estimate that the world’s population will grow from today’s 6.7 billion people to somewhere between 7.8 billion and 10.8 billion by 2050. The solutions of global warming, climate refugees, extreme poverty and high levels of population growth will require entirely new relationships between the world’s human and natural systems. The world has yet to figure out how it will deal with global warming, changing rainfall patterns, melting glaciers, rising sea-levels and climate refugees.
According to new technique and research our planet's continents were arranged 2.5 billion years ago. We are homo consumens of the earth and very young specie still trying to understand the mysteries of nature and in our ignorance we have destroyed it. Climate change offers humanity no second chances. Only rich countries can break the deadlock crippling international climate negotiations and prevent the world lurching into climate disaster. We should find a way to measure the general well-being of the people and planet rather than just raw economic growth.
You Can Easily Green Your Daily Routine. View Tips “here”.
Like the carbon footprint, water footprints are one of the latest methods scientists and policy makers are using to assess humanity's impact on the planet. And now businesses are starting to use water footprinting as well.
You can calculate your water footprint “here”.
Your Planet Needs You!
Unite to Combat Climate Change!
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You can view slide pages from Social Geographic. “here”.
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
Dream:Planet Venus
Tone:Touch of yellow
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Best Wishes,Rhivu
Haven't been out in a while so have been refreshing my memory.. This was a shot of Downtown Portland OR from the Esplanade across the Willamette River... A Tiny Planet was created from that one shot...
a little bit of a fun treatment for one of my Buckingham Fountain shots....this PP is called Little Planet and i thought this came out kind of cool....and plus, in Planet Buckingham, it's always blue hour and the night lights never get turned off....Planet Buckinghan even looks cooler if you View On Black
I am a bit of an environmentalist so am concerned about the health of our planet. I hope it's not too late to right the wrongs of the pollution and over poplulation we have imposed on this beautiful green earth. But somehow I think man's greed will not stop the over exploitation of our natural resources and the destruction of our remaining pristine areas.
After taking food to my cat colony, we went to the park in the small town looking for ducklings. [Didn't find any].
To my contacts:
Emory and I are going on another photo drive tomorrow...we are going back to the areas where rattlesnakes, ticks and poison oak are common.Hopefully, we just come home with flower pics and nothing else.
See you tomorrow night.
This planetary explorer (factory name: “PEX-1ML”) was designed as a mobile base (serving also as a laboratory and an observatory). It has all the necessary equipment to explore terrain of new planets. Its drivetrain and suspension was built to handle very rough terrain, while its body was constructed from materials that can withstand almost any weather conditions.
You can watch a video showcasing all of the functions here: www.flickr.com/photos/186152771@N07/51467442155/
175 Pictures taken with a Fuji 100T (23 mm lens) with a Ninja Nodal Ball Head on a Induro C014 tripod then stiched with Autopano Pro and edit in PS and LR with a quick retouch in Topaz Lab.
L&M replica Planet and ex BR EM2 Electric loco 1505 (BR no E27001) Ariadne. Lined up outside the powerhall.
On the new planet, a new species was also found. Now that they have access to human technologies they want a piece of the pie too.
Here we see Hoan Harik and his companion, BA-55 (an android with personality and advanced AI) or Bosk as he calls it. They are getting ready to break into a warehouse to steal some items they need for their ship.
4th wall:
This might be a new storyline or theme I plan to build for. I already have their ship built, I'll try to upload that someday.
Unknown Planets
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: Supermoon of April 8, 2020 (Beautiful Full Moon Rise Through) - Canon
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
As twilight began to draw its veil along the high street, I feared for the old gazelle Large On Black ...would he still be there in the morning?
Wild Planet series: 3 of 10
On our planet, water is life. But how did it get here? Are there similar environments around other stars?
Webb has us one step closer to the answers. In a still-developing “solar system,” Webb detected water in the zone where rocky planets like Earth may form.
PDS 70 is a K-type star cooler than our Sun. Around it is a huge disk made up of planet-forming materials, including 2 known gas giant planets in the making. Webb found water vapor in the inner disk of PDS 70, within 100 million miles of the star.
Though we’ve seen water in similar disks, Webb’s discovery is the first detection of water in the “rocky planet zone” of a system known to have 2 or more developing planets. That means if rocky planets someday form around PDS 70, they’ll have water ready and waiting.
Follow-up observations will dive deeper into new mysteries, such as the origins of the water around PDS 70. In turn, studying other worlds will help us gain insight into our own. More: go.nasa.gov/3O8NL2j
This image: ARTIST ILLUSTRATION
This artist concept portrays the star PDS 70 and its inner protoplanetary disk. New measurements by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected water vapor at distances of less than 100 million miles from the star – the region where rocky, terrestrial planets may be forming. This is the first detection of water in the terrestrial region of a disk already known to host two or more protoplanets, one of which is shown at upper right.
Credits
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NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
Image description: Left of center, a bright light source illuminates a surrounding disk colored dusky red. The disk has spiral features and a scattering of small, rocky objects. At upper right, there is a gap through which background stars can be seen. At the outer edge of the gap is a dusky globe representing a gas giant planet. Beyond it is additional disk material, some of which is falling onto the planet.
Mars is peppered with craters. Scientists have deduced that the red planet is struck by around 200 meteoroids every year that dig out new craters.
While some small craters are fresh, Mars has a great many that are much larger and more ancient, such as the roughly circular patch of terrain, partially encircled by wrinkled cliffs, shown at the centre of this image. Named Atlantis basin, this crater is so old that its outer rim has eroded and is now barely detectable. It is thought to be the result of a massive collision some 4 billion years ago, during the ‘Late Heavy Bombardment’ – a period when an unusually high number of asteroids rained down on the rocky inner Solar System planets.
The Atlantis basin is located in the southern highlands of Mars. Many different structures and geological features can be found across this region of the planet, a number of which are shown in this image such as cliffs, impact craters, channels carved into steep slopes, wrinkled ridges and scarps.
Perhaps the most prominent feature is the speckling of uneven terrain towards the centre of this image. This is Atlantis Chaos, a lowland plain covering around 170 km by 145 km, and containing a few hundred small peaks and flat-topped hills known as ‘mesas’. These sandy-coloured mounds are thought to result from the slow erosion of a once-continuous solid plateau.
There are several other large basins in this part of Mars that appear to be partially connected. Geologists believe that these basins may have been filled with water in the past to create the hypothetical far-reaching Eridania lake, which would have covered an area of over a million square kilometres, about the size of France and Spain combined.
There is also evidence from Mars Express and other spacecraft that deposits in one of these nearby basins contain minerals that are produced in the presence of water, and are similar to those found in some types of clay on Earth. This, along with the deep channels and ridges carved into the basin slopes seen towards the bottom of this image, for example, suggest the past existence of water in the Atlantis basin and surrounding region.
This image is a mosaic of four images taken by the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera on 28 December 2008, 29 December 2008, 6 February 2009 and 5 January 2014. The image resolution is roughly 14 m per pixel.
This image was first published on 12 June 2014 on the DLR German Aerospace Center website.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
The perfect mate to aid the "on foot" explorer in hostile or uncertain terrain. Sophisticated scanners isolate potential threats and choose an optimal route to destinations - plus they don't mind carring your stuff.
A bot emerges as I try and clean up both the house and my lego. Little editing helps it along.