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This is an example of the use of an London Underground-like 'roundel' within the game 'Dead Space'.
Game site:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Space
Roundel:
London Underground:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground
The image within the game is displayed in a sort of HUD/augmented reality style. The text on the image shown says 'LOCKED', and just like the London Underground roundel it is a red circle with a blue cross member, with the writing in white.
Great game, btw. Very atomospheric, in a similar vein to F.E.A.R - which I also loved!!
Yay! I've discovered that, at least during a full moon, 15 seconds is just enough time to achieve some long exposures in open spaces. I've been frustrated by the limitations of my little digital in regards to night photography, so I was deeply satisfied to find that I could make it work. And thanks to Graham I've discovered that i do actually have a bulb setting on my film camera (it was hiding, the sneaky thing), so now there's no stopping me!
ISO 200, f/2.8, 15sec
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most accomplished orbiter, the champion of the shuttle fleet. Discovery flew on 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 240 million kilometers (150 million miles)--more than the other orbiters. It shuttled 184 men and women into space and back, many of whom flew more than once, for a record-setting total crew count of 251.
Because Discovery flew every kind of mission the Space Shuttle was meant to fly, it embodies well the 30-year history of U.S. human spaceflight from 1981 to 2011. Named for renowned sailing ships of exploration, Discovery is preserved as intact as possible as it last flew in 2011 on the 133rd Space Shuttle mission.
NASA transferred Discovery to the Smithsonian in April 2012 after a delivery flight over the nation's capital.
Captured by the Light L16. Photography by Amaal Said www.amaalsaid.com/
Full blog post here: captured.light.co/spaces-of-belonging
The long shadow of a small moon cuts across Saturn's A ring and thin F
ring in this image taken as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox.
The moon Epimetheus (113 kilometers, or 70 miles across) is not pictured
here, but the moon's shadow stretches past the Encke Gap of the A ring in
the upper right of the image. See PIA11651 for an earlier view which showed a
shorter shadow from Epimetheus.
The shadow does not appear uniformly dark on all parts of the ring because
this view is of the unlit side of the rings and the particle density of
the rings varies. See PIA11660 to learn more.
The novel illumination geometry that accompanies equinox lowers the sun's
angle to the ringplane, significantly darkens the rings, and causes
out-of-plane structures to look anomalously bright and cast shadows across
the rings. These scenes are possible only during the few months before and
after Saturn's equinox, which occurs only once in about 15 Earth years.
Before and after equinox, Cassini's cameras have spotted not only the
predictable shadows of some of Saturn's moons (see PIA11657), but
also the shadows of newly revealed vertical structures in the rings
themselves (see PIA11665).
This view looks toward the northern, unilluminated side of the rings from
about 28 degrees above the ringplane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on July 30, 2009. The view was obtained at a distance
of approximately 1.7 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is 10 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at ciclops.org.credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Image Addition Date:
2009-10-01
pumpkin spice cookies, i got this cookie recipe from crafty-penguin :o) thankyou Carolyn such a yummy recipe , these are decorated with royal icing
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most accomplished orbiter, the champion of the shuttle fleet. Discovery flew on 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 240 million kilometers (150 million miles)--more than the other orbiters. It shuttled 184 men and women into space and back, many of whom flew more than once, for a record-setting total crew count of 251.
Because Discovery flew every kind of mission the Space Shuttle was meant to fly, it embodies well the 30-year history of U.S. human spaceflight from 1981 to 2011. Named for renowned sailing ships of exploration, Discovery is preserved as intact as possible as it last flew in 2011 on the 133rd Space Shuttle mission.
NASA transferred Discovery to the Smithsonian in April 2012 after a delivery flight over the nation's capital.