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The long white structures that look something like matchsticks are the male part of the flower called the stamen. The top of the stamen release pollen which is caught is the golden, hooked stigma in the hairy cone above the stamen. The pollen is then fed down to the purple ovaries below. At the beginning of the fertilization cycle the ovaries are encased in ranks of stamen which can be seen on the right side of the image. When seeds are formed, the stamen fall off which can be seen in the next image, Magnolia 3. (#2 of 3)
I've posted others from this area in the past. But what attracted me to this scene is the contrast provided by the reflected sunlight on the right side of the image. As opposed to the uniformity of the previous images. You can let me know what you think.
The Tungnaa braided river system in the Icelandic highlands creates beautiful abstract patterns in the mud when viewed from the air. Sunlight reflected from the water and wet mud helps create interesting contrasts throughout the landscape. The river derives its color from the glacial silt it picks up as it flows from the Vatnajokull ice cap toward the ocean.
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Back on the streets, I love these moments when all the pieces of the day click into place in the puzzle of life - dogs, people, sidewalks and buildings, just the pattern of interactions.
CALM
On a Seaboard System boxcar. This image is better viewed: LARGE
Benched in Los Angeles County, CA
Individual transports pass quickly above the streets of the grid, suspended by the series of propulsion rings, while still allowing for plenty of pedestrian program traffic below.
3D View: mecabricks.com/en/models/VyvnA3Qpjl3
Seaboard System C30-7 #7053 is the only General Electric locomotive in this eight engine consist seen at Cumberland, Maryland in July of 1987.
Two Red Arrows Hawks of the RAF perform a high-speed cross-over manoeuvre at RIAT 2025. RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.
Good friend and fellow flickerite DBS 60100 restarts the 6V85 2235 Milford - Appleford flyash from Swinton , signal checked whilst giving way to something from the Doncaster line .
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This artist's concept puts solar system distances in perspective. The scale bar is in astronomical units, with each set distance beyond 1 AU representing 10 times the previous distance. One AU is the distance from the sun to the Earth, which is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. Neptune, the most distant planet from the sun, is about 30 AU.
Informally, the term "solar system" is often used to mean the space out to the last planet. Scientific consensus, however, says the solar system goes out to the Oort Cloud, the source of the comets that swing by our sun on long time scales. Beyond the outer edge of the Oort Cloud, the gravity of other stars begins to dominate that of the sun.
The inner edge of the main part of the Oort Cloud could be as close as 1,000 AU from our sun. The outer edge is estimated to be around 100,000 AU.
NASA's Voyager 1, humankind's most distant spacecraft, is around 125 AU. Scientists believe it entered interstellar space, or the space between stars, on Aug. 25, 2012. Much of interstellar space is actually inside our solar system. It will take about 300 years for Voyager 1 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly about 30,000 years to fly beyond it.
Alpha Centauri is currently the closest star to our solar system. But, in 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will be closer to the star AC +79 3888 than to our own sun. AC +79 3888 is actually traveling faster toward Voyager 1 than the spacecraft is traveling toward it.
The Voyager spacecraft were built and continue to be operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The Voyager missions are a part of NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
For more information about Voyager, visit: www.nasa.gov/voyager and voyager.jpl.nasa.gov .
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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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Meet little Sydnee.. only 9 days old.
her mother special ordered this cute hat and we made the best of it..
lighting was profoto D1 with a softbox gridded for the spot lighted look..
triggered by the Air system by profoto.
Reinhardt Armanents is here to announce their expansion, from Reinhardt Armanents to Reinhardt Systems!
We had lots of good time before, and, we hope, we're going to have EVEN BETTER days!
To celebrate this, I announce you our newest toy, the Mark 97!
It is one odd (sub)machine gun! It uses double-stack 30 round magazine filled with .40 caliber cartridges! More power than a 9mm, but less than a .45!
It has a high rate of fire, the bullets will tear you apart before you have time to react!
Even though being difficult, it can also be dual wielded!
So, are you ready to rain the gunfire to your enemies? We hope you are!
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Still trying to get back to PMG...
Rail Express Sysytems liveried class 86/2 locomotive 86243 along with a Propelling Control Vehicle (PCV), head south past Heamies Farm, situated just north of Norton Bridge on the WCML.
Propelling Control Vehicle's (PCV) are former BR Eastleigh 1955 built Great Eastern Main Line Class 307 driving trailer cars, of which 42 were converted at Hunslet-Barclay in Kilmarnock between 1994 to 1996, so this very smart looking PCV could be one of the last converted on delivery.
30th September 1996
For those of you interested in old marine architecture, I saw a pinsi with an old Bugis-Makassar steering system with two side rudders in Sunda Kelapa Harbour, Jakarta, Indonesia. The long port side rudder blade is visible just above the crewman's head, which is seen in a side opening in the ship. When underway, the two rudders are fixed to strong traverse thwarts projecting out on both sides of the aft part of the ship (seen here below the blade). During their heyday in the 1970's, several thousand pinisi, then the biggest fleet of sailing traders in the world, connected all the islands of the Indonesian archipelago.
6/04/2017 www.allenfotowild.com
The Solar System comprises the Sun and its planetary system of eight planets, their moons, and other non-stellar objects.
Some chipping and rusting metal for Tuesday's Textures.
The metal emblems on this tractor was particularly chippy.
Captured in the spring in lower Delaware at the little roadside farm equipment museum with iPhone.
Edited yesterday on the desktop in photoshop, Nik's Viveza, and Alien Skin's Exposure X for black and white edits.
Optical system: SW ED80, SW 0.85 FF/FR
Camera : QHY8c
Mount and guiding: SW EQ6Pro, SW 9x50 finderguider with QHY5L-IIc
Exposure: 10x25min, Gain 4%, Offset 123, dark, flat, bias
Software: Nebulosity3, Pixinsight 1.8, PS-CS6
Location: Petrova gora, Croatia 20.10.2017.
Actually, I sent the request to authorities of our city about this problem (absence drainage system on Moscow's roads), but authorities answered me, that the rain water flows by itself through the natural slope, and that's fine (such is prescribed by normative documents).
Я писала запрос в мэрию Москвы по поводу отсутствия дренажной системы на дорогах, но получила ответ, что вода сама стекает по естественным склонам, и это нормально (так предусмотрено нормативными документами).
NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket poised to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon next year may appear identical to the Artemis I SLS rocket. On closer inspection, though, engineers have upgraded the agency’s Moon rocket inside and out to improve performance, reliability, and safety.
SLS flew a picture perfect first mission on the Artemis I test flight, meeting or exceeding parameters for performance, attitude control, and structural stability to an accuracy of tenths or hundredths of a percent as it sent an uncrewed Orion thousands of miles beyond the Moon. It also returned volumes of invaluable flight data for SLS engineers to analyze to drive improvements.
For Artemis II, the major sections of SLS remain unchanged – a central core stage, four RS-25 main engines, two five-segment solid rocket boosters, the ICPS (interim cryogenic propulsion stage), a launch vehicle stage adapter to hold the ICPS, and an Orion stage adapter connecting SLS to the Orion spacecraft. The difference is in the details.
In this image, teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems integrate the SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket with the solid rocket boosters onto mobile launcher 1 inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in March 2025. Artemis II is the first crewed test flight under NASA’s Artemis campaign and is another step toward missions on the lunar surface and helping the agency prepare for future human missions to Mars.
Credits: NASA/Frank Michaux
#Artemis #NASAMarshall #Space #NASASLS #NASA #Artemis #ArtemisII
Cara skin is back in the Mainstore! Here a video so you can see exactly how beautiful she looks inworld, with no editing, no alterations.
An airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system is an airborne radar early warning system designed to detect aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles and other incoming projectiles at long ranges, as well as performing command and control of the battlespace in aerial engagements by informing and directing friendly fighter and attack aircraft. AEW&C units are also used to carry out aerial surveillance over ground and maritime targets, and frequently perform battle management command and control (BMC2). When used at altitude, the radar system on AEW&C aircraft allows the operators to detect, track and prioritize targets and identify friendly aircraft from hostile ones in real-time and from much farther away than ground-based radars.[1] Like ground-based radars, AEW&C systems can be detected and targeted by opposing forces, but due to aircraft mobility and extended sensor range, they are much less vulnerable to counter-attacks than ground systems.[2]
AEW&C aircraft are used for both defensive and offensive air operations, and serve air forces in the same role as what the combat information center is to naval warships, in addition to being a highly mobile and powerful radar platform. So useful and advantageous is it to have such aircraft operating at a high altitude, that some navies also operate AEW&C aircraft for their warships at sea, either coastal- or carrier-based and on both fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms. In the case of the United States Navy, the Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye AEW&C aircraft is assigned to its supercarriers to protect them and augment their onboard command information centers (CICs). The designation "airborne early warning" (AEW) was used for earlier similar aircraft used in the less-demanding radar picket role,[3] such as the Fairey Gannet AEW.3 and Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star, and continues to be used by the RAF for its Sentry AEW1, while AEW&C (airborne early warning and control) emphasizes the command and control capabilities that may not be present on smaller or simpler radar picket aircraft. AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) is the name of the specific system installed in the American Boeing E-3 Sentry and Japanese Boeing E-767 AEW&C airframes, but is often used as a general synonym for AEW&C.[4][5]
General characteristics
Wellington Ic "Air Controlled Interception" showing rotating radar antenna
Modern AEW&C systems can detect aircraft from up to 400 km (220 nmi) away, well out of range of most surface-to-air missiles (SAM). One AEW&C aircraft flying at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) can cover an area of 312,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi). Three such aircraft in overlapping orbits can cover the whole of Central Europe.[6] AEW&C system indicates close and far proximity range on threats and targets, help extend the range of their sensors, and make offensive aircraft harder to track by avoiding the need for them to keep their own radar active, which the enemy can detect. Systems also communicate with friendly aircraft, vectoring fighters towards hostile aircraft or any unidentified flying object (UFO).
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“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system” ~Marie Lu
The Vancouver downtown from the highest structure of the city. There were dark clouds approaching that day and I was keen to see the cityscape at sunset. A bit disappointed I still continued to head up the building. The guide at the location however told me how people misjudge the cloudy weather and that it covers up the sunset. She told me to continue and I will be left impressed. She was right. The view with all the nature's elements was amazing. The clouds and the sunset peeking through them illuminated the sky and the city. I was not carrying the tripod. I had to capture the scene at a high ISO which created noise in the output. Nevertheless the results were pretty satisfying #Urbanscape #Canon