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Macro Monday
Theme: Cheese
Size: Less than 3x3 inches
We don't eat a lot of cheese but I found a packet of Tasty cheese in our fridge.
I warmed a few strips of the Tasty cheese in the microwave and while it is still warm I pulled at it to produce stringy cheese.
I manage to attached the stringy ends to the base of two spoons that are placed slightly apart.
The subject looks like a bacteria with filaments !
The only light source is natural light through the window. I used a green cloth for the background.
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Macro Mondays ......... Theme " All Natural "
Colourful lichen, composite organisms that arise from the algae and bacteria living among the fungi on the bark of a tree. The macro shows the beautiful rainbow of colours and textures that go unnoticed.
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One of the many fantastic sculptures in Yellowstone National Park.
Bacteria and algae create the streaks of color on Orange Spring Mound. It is noticeably different from many of the other terrace formations nearby. Its large mounded shape is the result of very slow water flow and mineral deposition.
It reminds me of a shaggy animal.
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The red color comes from halophilic bacteria that flourish in heavily concentrated salt levels.
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the shot.
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When I think of Yellowstone the B words I think of are Bison, Bears and "Bacteria." The mix of patterns, textures and colors at the thermal pools is amazing. The overflow from the Black Pool is an excellent home for thermophilic cyanobacteria to prosper and flourish. The varied colors in Yellowstone are fascinating and quite beautiful.
"Black Pool is a hot spring in the West Thumb Geyser Basin.
The pool was cool enough up until 1991 for dark orange-brown cyanobacteria to grow throughout the pool. When combined with the blue of the water, the pool appeared to be an exceptionally dark green to almost black, hence the name.
An exchange of function took place in 1991, shifting thermal energy to Black Pool. Black Pool's temperature became hot enough to kill all the cyanobacteria in the pool, turning the pool a rich teal blue color. Black Pool remains extremely hot, and is now one of Yellowstone's most beautiful and intensely blue pools. The name of the pool however remains "Black Pool." Wikipedia
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At Yellowstone Hot Springs
Bacteria and other thermophiles (heat loving microorganisms) usually form the ribbons of color you see here. The green, brown, and orange mats are cyanobacteria, which can live in waters as hot as 167 F (73 C). At this temperature they are usually yellow-green. They become orange, rust, or brown as the water cools.
www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/otherlifeforms.htm
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Hello I'm Mr Bacteria. I can be found in the body of every Lego fan.
I'm responsible for a great fun, challenging build, imagination and stress relief.
I help people connect Ideas just like Lego bricks connect together. I encourage problem-solving, creativity and the joy of building something from nothing. Whether you're 4 or 99. I make sure Lego brings out the builder in everyone!
I've been shooting bacterial cultures and shooting them through water droplets formed on the inside of the Petri dish covers. This is the culmination of this week's study.
Although this may look like a computer-generated image or a hand-drawn design, I assure you every one of these circles is a photo.
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COMIENZA EL PROYECTO M.A.R.T.E. EN RIO TINTO
Científicos de la NASA y del Centro de Astrobiología (INTA/CSIC) de España simularán en Huelva la búsqueda de vida en Marte
Científicos de NASA, en colaboración con científicos españoles del Centro de Astrobiología, han comenzado un proyecto, de tres años de duración, en el que se va a simular una misión de perforación del subsuelo de Marte realizándose perforaciones de hasta 150 metros de profundidad, con tecnología estándar, para la búsqueda de microorganismos extremófilos que se espera que existan en las fuentes del Río Tinto.
Durante el proyecto, denominado Experimento Astrobiológico de Tecnología e Investigación de Marte (Mars Astrobiology Research and Technology Experiment (MARTE)), científicos e ingenieros de NASA, de Universidades americanas y del Centro de Astrobiología de España, esperan poder demostrar que sistemas robotizados son capaces de buscar rastros de vida bajo la superficie marciana.
"El área del Río Tinto presenta analogías importantes con Marte, que pueden ayudar en la búsqueda de vida, en agua líquida, bajo el subsuelo de Marte," según Carol Stoker, investigadora principal del proyecto y que pertenece al NASA Ames Research Center situado en el Silicon Valley, California.
Las bacterias existentes en el río juegan un papel importante en el mantenimiento de las condiciones de acidez del río, al metabolizar el hierro y el azufre presentes en la región. El alto contenido de hierro disuelto en las aguas ácidas del río, le dan un color rojo profundo como el del vino tinto, de ahí su nombre Río Tinto. Los científicos esperan encontrar bacterias similares en el subsuelo del Río Tinto, donde el agua subterránea interactúa con minerales de hierro y azufre. Dichas bacterias podrían estar subsistiendo a base de compuestos químicos y minerales presentes bajo la superficie, sin ninguna interacción con el exterior.
Con las perforaciones se obtendrán muestras que, después de ser analizadas, con instrumentación y tecnología de carácter muy novedoso aportada por el Centro de Astrobiología, aportarán importantes datos sobre las formas de vida existentes. Posteriormente se utilizará esta información para verificar las prestaciones de los robots que buscarán rastros de vida, compuestos orgánicos y minerales.
Seen in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
The colours are not due to the mineral deposits, but to extremophile bacteria that manage to survive in the hot water.
Yellowstone National Park sits atop the magma chamber of a huge supervolcano.
Camera: Leicaflex SL2 (Leica ID 10022), made in 1975
Lens: Leica Summicron-R-II 50mm (11216), made in 1978, with polarising filter
Kodak Portra 400 professional grade colour negative film, exposed at ISO 200
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
Waves of bacterial mats provide the colors and apparent textures of the hot springs. Each type of bacterial is adapted to live at a particular temperature and acidity present in different rings radiating from the hot spring.
The hot springs in Yellowstone National Park give life to some pretty weird stuff. I'm not sure if this texture is all bacteria or a combination of dissolved/re-hardened stone along with some bacterial coloring. But anyway, I thought it was pretty interesting if slightly icky.
NJ Transit ALP-46 4746 had southbound train 4761 crossing the Raritan Bay into South Amboy, New Jersey.
Where NJ DOT GG1s used to tread, the less stylish ALP-46s now haul the commuters.
Snow on June 7th
Re Mastered, Replaced and Re Posted to Groups.
( Cannot go any where because of Lock Down)
Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone's Midway Geyser Basin is the largest hot spring in the United States. Hottest temperatures are in blue with temperatures cooling through green, yellow, orange and red. Thermophile bacteria thrive in this environment and provide the colorful scene.
The amazing history and stunning beauty of our National Parks are as unique as a fingerprint. Grand Prismatic Spring is one of the most color filled locations in Yellowstone National Park. It's amazing to walk the boardwalks and get up close to nature and too visit it from an overlook above. Adventure and Photographic memories are the priceless and one of a kind souvenirs we each take home.
Grand Prismatic Spring is one of the most color filled locations in Yellowstone National Park. Nature is a mystery that comes together and forms spectacular things of beauty. From high above on the overlook it was fascinating to zoom in on one of the only places you can smell a rainbow.
View from the Grand Prismatic Overlook Trail
Check this model in 3D on Mecabricks
– Why have I chosen RSS Korolev? Every captain wants such ship. Fast. Huge. Convenient. Never mind, I m just joking. Someone else would say something about a new frontier and a spirit of discovery. As for me, it s just a new experience. You know, if you are captain, it s almost impossible to find anything except cargo ship. Or a liner for the lucky ones. It s not bad, but those routine delivery missions are too identical. Fly somewhere, take cargo, go back, repeat. This research voyage is completely different. Much more responsibility. There are larger cargo ships, but the crew is always low, a couple of dozens at the biggest ones. And all of them are captain s subordinates. Captain is a god on his ship. Here… everything is different. Hundreds of scientists are not just passengers. I have to change course if some astronomer finds some unusual star or if a biologist decides to scan particular planet for life. It s a bit annoying. Some more conservative person could find such situation real headache. But I don t want to return to the freighters.
– They can say everything they want, but NavSystems was a general sponsor of this mission. So our aim is establishing new hyperspace routes and correcting old ones. Most expansive and complicated equipment of this ship are all kinds of hyperspace scanners. Laying a new route isn t a simple task. You have to keep in mind many factors to make it fast, reliable, safe, economic. And profitable for company. Days, when ship had to have huge powerful expansive computer onboard to calculate hyperjump, are gone. Companies like NavSystem provide access to their servers to make calculations as simple as it possible. Global hyperspace beacon network collects all necessary data; servers process it and give all parameters of a jump for a fair payment. This entire infrastructure has high running cost, so we can t do it for free.
– Those bastards from the “navigators guild” think they are masters here. But most of them don t even understand that their precious hyperroutes are useless if nobody wants to use them. Every journey needs a reason. The most common and obvious one is valuable resource deposit. Humanity needs more resources for further expansion. That s why we should check every possible planet, moon or asteroid belt. Moreover, every planet is unique and can tell scientists something new and may be important. We ve already done several discoveries. But “navigators” always hurry us up if they find star system useless for them. We must do something.
– This expedition has already given us good results. We collected tons of information and statistics. It will help for new colonists a lot. Some people hope we can find one more earth-like planet. It will be a great success. However, we checked thousands of planets and none of them is suitable for human without any special equipment. We even found some samples of life, but it were just bacteria and a couple of simplest seaweeds. Space is a dead place. I hope we can change this in future.
Before our summer vacation, we filled a large gardening bucket with rainwater, intending to use it for watering our indoor plants. Upon returning home after three weeks, we noticed a thin, colorful layer on the water's surface, displaying varying bright colors depending on the viewing angle. It looked different than the shapes typically formed by iron bacteria, and I'm unsure of what else could have caused this layer. Nevertheless, it made for an interesting photography subject.
Yellowstone National Park (USA),
The different colours are bacteria mats that are tolerant of different temperatures
On the clear summer morning of 14 August 1987, NJ Transit E60CH No. 963 brings New York bound train 3318 across the Raritan River into Perth Amboy at its shoreline infamously named by railfans. Ten of the brutish GEs were purchased from Amtrak after a short career with the national carrier, extending their service lives by another decade plus.
As a young railfan obsessed with electric railroads, and arriving trackside a little too late to witness the real action, surviving GG1s and E60s on the North Jersey Coast Line were a thrilling capture that hinted at the glory days of the PRR and other pioneer railroads under wire.
I have a chance to go one of the Microbiology Lab in Adelaide and took some photos of the Bacteria growing on agar~~~
Bacteria are microorganisms that grow everywhere. We can collect and grow them in specially prepared petri dishes. Blood agar or tryptic soy agar with 5% sheep's blood is an excellent medium for supplying bacteria with nutrients and an environment in which we can see them grow. Some of them could be very artistic~~
＂Sterile powdered agar with nutrients can be mixed with water, heated and then poured into empty petri dishes or ready-to-use dishes can be purchased. The undigestible agar is a gelatin-like substance with a semi solid surface on which the bacteria can grow while they consume the added nutrients (like sheep's blood). In fact, this is why gelatin itself does not make a good growing medium. Some bacteria can digest gelatin, which is a protein derived from animal tissue. This destroys the growing surface in the petri plate making it unsuitable as a bacteria growth medium.＂(From: secure.sciencecompany.com/-W54C659.aspx )
The orange color is the result of bacteria in the warm/hot water. I really like the bright contrasting blue/orange colors. Yellowstone National Park, WY
The Canary Spring of the upper terrace of Mammoth Hot Springs is one of the most variable, ever changing features in the park. The flow of water from the springs changes periodically, with some pools drying up while other pools become reinvigorated. I very much like the way the springs looked while I was there. I've seen other pictures of this long dead tree where the pools in front of it have the dry white chalky appearance of the ridges behind it. With water in these pools, with a lovely yellow to orange colored bacteria, I was able to get this really nice evening reflection of the tree with the cloud obscured setting sun and the Gallatin Range providing a nice backdrop.