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Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has been processed to highlight the edges of each loop to make the structure more clear. A series of loops such as this is known as a flux rope, and these lie at the heart of eruptions on the sun known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs.) This is the first time scientists were able to discern the timing of a flux rope's formation. (Blended 131 Angstrom and 171 Angstrom images of July 19, 2012 flare and CME.)
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO
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On July 18, 2012, a fairly small explosion of light burst off the lower right limb of the sun. Such flares often come with an associated eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME – but this one did not. Something interesting did happen, however. Magnetic field lines in this area of the sun's atmosphere, the corona, began to twist and kink, generating the hottest solar material – a charged gas called plasma – to trace out the newly-formed slinky shape. The plasma glowed brightly in extreme ultraviolet images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and scientists were able to watch for the first time the very formation of something they had long theorized was at the heart of many eruptive events on the sun: a flux rope.
Eight hours later, on July 19, the same region flared again. This time the flux rope's connection to the sun was severed, and the magnetic fields escaped into space, dragging billions of tons of solar material along for the ride -- a classic CME.
"Seeing this structure was amazing," says Angelos Vourlidas, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. "It looks exactly like the cartoon sketches theorists have been drawing of flux ropes since the 1970s. It was a series of figure eights lined up to look like a giant slinky on the sun." To read more about this new discovery go to: 1.usa.gov/14UHsTt
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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It appears that this is a nautical expression. In the days of sail, naval recruits had to climb the ropes and learn which ropes controlled which sails etc. Only just to confuse things further, the ropes were known as sheets.
OK, so these young lads (boys really) had to climb the rigging on a ship at sea. Maybe 40ft or more high. A ship that was moving. Up and down, side to side, rolling about, in the wind, in the rain, in the dark.
Best viewed with a brown paper bag. (Preferably a big, strong one)
3 element make up this photo,metal, wood and fibre. Wood being a natural element, the metal coming from nature but man-made and the ropes woven with made -made fibres. it is a wonderful still life with a story.
High ropes course in my local forest taken at night with a slightly warm atmosphere bringing colours through the trees
Here you see the ropes rolling up, one by one..
On top of the prow you see a man and a woman (Jack and Rose?) waiting until the ship comes loose from the shore.
On the left, behind the ship, you see a part of our famous witte Erasmusbridge and further back you see the, red, Willemsbridge..
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This summer I was in Rotterdam, of course and where in earlier days the emigrants left with the Holland America Line, looking for happiness and a better life in America and Canada, there was now a gigantic cruise ship ready for take of..
so I wanted to stay and watch this colossus would leave.
Scanned lith print.
Mamiya 645 ProTL, Mamiya-Sekor 80mm/f1.9N lens, Jan 21, 2018.
Fomapan 100 in Caffenol (12 min).
Fomatone MG 132 (18x24cm) in Moersch Easy Lith (25A+25B+10D+950H2O).
Untoned.
PS borders.
Another one from the archives as not been out lately. Hopefully that will all change tomorrow as, weather permitting, I'm off to Dungeness for another visit.
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Shot with my Nikon Df and a 50 mm Æ’1,8, post processed in Lightroom using the new VSCO Film Pack 05.