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Earth’s atmosphere has five layers between the surface of the planet and space. In this image of the Shuttle Endeavor approaching ISS in 2010 we can see the Troposphere (Orange), the Statosphere (White), and the Mesosphere (Blue) from the light of the sun. The next two layers out are the Thermosphere and Exosphere. The Thermosphere is the atmospheric layer in which ISS orbits and the Exosphere is the beginning of true deep space. #funfactfriday #planetsarelikeonions #theyhavelayers
How was this picture taken? Usually, pictures of the shuttle, taken from space, are snapped from the space station and pictures of the space station are snapped from the shuttle. How, then, can there be a picture of both the shuttle and the station together, taken from space? The answer is that during the Space Shuttle Endeavour's last trip to the International Space Station in May 2011, a supply ship departed the station with astronauts that captured a series of rare views. The supply ship was the Russian Soyuz TMA-20 which landed in Kazakhstan later that day. #space #nasa #iss #funfactfriday
It's Fun Fact Friday, so here's something for you courtesy of Mount Rainier National Park: Nisqually Glacier is the most-studied and easily-accessible glacier on The Mountain. And, Mount Rainier, itself, is the most heavily-glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S. Just look at those amazing crevasses on that river of ice, which looks kinda dirty, actually, because of all the rocks, boulders, and rock flour in and on top of the glacier.
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The Trifid Nebula is easy to find with a small telescope, a well-known stop in the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. This penetrating infrared image reveals filaments of glowing dust clouds and newborn stars. The spectacular false-color view is courtesy of the Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers use the Spitzer infrared image data to count newborn and embryonic stars which otherwise can lie hidden in the natal dust and gas clouds of this intriguing stellar nursery. The Trifid Nebula is about 30 light-years across and lies only 5,500 light-years away. #cosmos #space #stars #nasa #funfactfriday
Orion rises over the Earth’s atmosphere in this snapshot from the International Space Station. The belt stars, Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka run right to left and Orion's sword, home to the great Orion Nebula, hangs above his belt, an orientation unfamiliar to denizens of the planet's northern hemisphere. #stars #iss #funfactfriday
What looks like a bizarre alien planet is in fact Earth, photographed by astronaut Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station during the auroral displays this past June. Aurorae have the signature colors of excited molecules and atoms at the low densities found at extreme altitudes. The greenish glow of molecular oxygen dominates this view. But higher, just above the space station's horizon, is a rarer red band of aurora from atomic oxygen. #iss #spacestation #funfactfriday
Many wavelengths of light are invisible to the human eye but NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory space telescope shows a wide variety of these wavelengths and transforms them and colorizes them into an image we can see. The above image shows nine colorized wavelengths of light and their level of intensity from the sun. #jewelbox #sun #funfactfriday
Like a cosmic ship plowing through the black, runaway star Zeta Ophiuchi produces the arcing interstellar bow wave or bow shock seen in this stunning infrared portrait. Bright blue Zeta Ophiuchi is moving from right to left at 24 kilometers per second. Its strong stellar wind precedes it, compressing and heating the dusty interstellar material and shaping the curved shock front. Zeta Ophiuchi is speculated to have been a smaller star in a binary system sent sailing off on its cosmic journey by the supernova explosion of its larger companion. #space #cosmicjourney #funfactfriday
Closeup view of the chimpanzee "Ham", the live test subject for Mercury-Redstone 2 test flight being fed an apple. Also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, Ham was a chimpanzee and the first Hominidae launched into space, in January 1961, as part of America's space program. Ham's name is an acronym for the lab which prepared him for his historic mission — the Holloman Aerospace Medical Center, located at Holloman Air Force Base. After the flight, Ham lived for 17 years in the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
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In the 1970s cop show CHiPs, Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada, who played bike patrolmen Jon and Ponch, were so dissatisfied when their Kawasaki Z1000s were swapped for BMWs that they put the BMW fairings on the Kawasakis and continued to use them.
The very first commercial design for a self-propelled bicycle was a three-wheel design called the Butler Petrol Cycle, conceived of and built by Edward Butler in England in 1884.
Motorcycle Fun Fact Friday
In 2012 Japanese toilet manufacturer TOTO made a motorcycle that runs on human waste stored in the driver's seat.
A group of bike racers had a pig or hog as a mascot, when they would win a race they would put the hog on the bike and make a victory lap.
#DYK The Atmospheric Turbulence & Diffusion Division (ATDD) is one of several field divisions of @NOAA 's Air Resources Laboratory? ATDD’s research is focused on #airquality, #climate, and #dispersion-related research. Learn more go.usa.gov/xQ4P5 #FunFactFriday
Photo: ATDD Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
Photo Credit: NOAA ARL
#funfactfriday today featuring the African Elephant! Did you know that with their trunks they can lift up to 770 lbs?! Or that their trunks are the most intricate appendages made up of over 40,000 muscles? Their trunks are also used to smell water, and it is reported that they have 4x the sensitivity of a bloodhound's nose! Imagine that! 🐘 #beanmuseum #elephantfacts #trunksRcool
#funfactfriday today featuring the common Mallard duck! This adorable family of Mallard ducks was seen right outside the museum! Mallards are very adaptable, they live and even thrive in urban areas--just like Provo! Come in to see the Fred & Sue Morris Bird Gallery that features over 100 different birds from around the world! #beanmuseum #birdfacts #ducksinProvo
Edited Sptizer Space Telescope image of the Trifid Nebula.
Original caption: The Trifid Nebula is easy to find with a small telescope, a well-known stop in the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. This penetrating infrared image reveals filaments of glowing dust clouds and newborn stars. The spectacular false-color view is courtesy of the Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers use the Spitzer infrared image data to count newborn and embryonic stars which otherwise can lie hidden in the natal dust and gas clouds of this intriguing stellar nursery. The Trifid Nebula is about 30 light-years across and lies only 5,500 light-years away. #cosmos #space #stars #nasa #funfactfriday
Did you know: The fastest mile ever run was 3:43.13 by Morrocan, Hitcham El Guerrouj in 1999. #FunFactFriday t.co/0FxYwhmhXK (via Twitter twitter.com/youthrunnola/status/789526096714665984)