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"Storm Over Kamloops 3" by Patti Deters. A severe thunderstorm bears down on Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. If you like this image, I invite you to please share or see more (without watermark) at patti-deters.artistwebsites.com
“Artist concept illustrates how the Galileo spacecraft's probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere. The Galileo probe spacecraft's instrument descent module "hangs in the shrouds" making the first direct measurements of Jupiter's atmosphere. The red-hot nose cone can be seen falling away as lightning flashes nearby.”
While understandable, it’s nonetheless a little odd that this photo bears an STS-34 space shuttle mission photo identification number, and (to my searching ability), obscurely only found/available at an untended/defunct NASA website:
science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/images/pao/STS34/1006...
Along with:
science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/images/pao/STS34/1006...
While I’m certain that this dramatic & highly detailed depiction has a JPL/possible Ames Research Center photo identification number, I’m dubious that it’s AC78-9247, i.e., from 1978, long before it was referred to as “Galileo”. But, you never know, since I did find the following, supposedly from 1981:
images.nasa.gov/details-ARC-1981-A81-0174
This also is the first Galileo probe atmospheric entry I’ve ever seen that depicts the parachute prior to full inflation/deployment.
And a wonderful & totally unexpected, pleasant surprise - artist identification, OTHER than Robert McCall - was provided by Ames Research Center Photo Library website...HOT-DAMN!!! If to be believed & somehow correct...Paul Hudson.
Excellent slide deck:
www.slideserve.com/abrial/instrument-accommodation-on-the...
Credit: SlideServe website
Hold the presses: As astutely pointed out by user 'Cygni_18' (below), this image was originally crafted to depict the atmospheric entry of the large Pioneer-Venus probe. Confirmed by the precisely matching external configuration (Figure 3-17) below, and corroborated by the original "AC78-9247" annotation:
pds-ppi.igpp.ucla.edu/data/PVO-V-OEFD-3--EFIELD-HIRES-V1....
Credit: NASA Planetary Data System website
However, it - for whatever reason, be it right or (more likely) wrong - was resurrected for the Galileo mission, as evidenced by the above links.
However, with plentiful other artists' concepts of the Galileo mission, it certainly doesn't seem to have been necessary.
Ugh...NASA photo/history/archive section, department, part-time/weekend person, or whatever...if it/they even existed/exists. Not a whole lot of attention to detail...or, for that matter, effort.
It's thunderstorm season! The weather forecasters have issued extreme storm warnings for the past two days, and one of them turned out to be a spectacular show. I positioned myself on the outskirts of town, and shot from the relative safety of my car. Tripod, shutter on "B", cable release, focus on infinity, aperture set somewhere in the middle (I kept moving it around between f/8 and f/16, depending on how close and bright the flashes were). This image was a little overexposed, but I shoot RAW so the lost detail was easily recovered. Val Marie, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Best large, on BLACK...
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Lightning bolts striking the Dacona oil fields in Colorado. Two lightning bolts from this fast moving thunderstorm raining down next to an oil well pump jack.
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This was the first time I've ever been lucky enough to catch a reasonably close-up lightning bolt...and storm season has barely even started here in south east Queensland! This luckily wasn't as close as it seems either -- we were standing on the other side of a large stretch of Lake Wyaralong.
It's been a while since I didn't have a chance to take proper storm photographies. My Fujifilm x100f, an amazing camera that I love, is not really the best for this exercise, especially since the focus setting is stucked, avoiding me to get access to manual focus. So I don't go out after storms anymore. But tonight, the storm just passed in front of my window, offering me a wonderful rainbow at the same time and I was lucky enough to make this shot. The quality is not so great as I had to crop a lot in the photo, but I do like the mood of this photo.
A colorful sky as an electrical charged lightning bolt strikes near the road and infamous green thunderstorm clouds above. Lookout Ridge, in East Boulder County Colorado.
When the sun is low in the sky, such as before sunset when most severe storms occur, the reddening light of the sun when shining through Earth's atmosphere makes the bluish cloud tint turn green. Or it may be that storm clouds act as a kind of canvas upon which low sunlight scattered by particles in the air paints a greenish color. "The most popular theory is that thunderstorms contain a lot of water â often in the form of hail â and this water or ice tends to scatter green light during the strong updrafts that occur in severe storms. That's why many people say the sky appears green right before a hailstorm." says Brent McRoberts of Texas A&M University.
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Rare and isolated moment in the foothills. A lucky grab: hand held, no trigger, 1/30th, f4, ISO 1000.
In January 1934, the Philadelphia Electric Company (now PECO) was the first utility to license the Reddy Kilowatt character to promote electricity usage, according to Wikipedia. The early date may explain why Reddy's first name is misspelled as "Ready" on this advertising wheel chart, which demonstrates how far 5 cents worth of electricity goes in operating appliances like clocks, coffee percolators, and radios.
See also the other side of this wheel chart. For another Reddy sighting, see Reddy Kilowatt at the Agricultural and Industrial Museum, York, Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia Electric Company
For 5c spent for electricity you can operate your electric appliances fort the number of hours indicated in opening, says Ready Kilowatt (Your Electrical Servant).
Hours--If your monthly electric bill is from 75c to $2.75; $2.75 to $5.00; over $5.00.
100 watt lamp. Hand iron. Vacuum cleaner. Washer. Radio. Toaster. Percolator. Fan. Clock. 60 watt lamp.
Another shot right out my front door. What an awesome storm. I love that kind of lightning. The storm was so bad my cable internet was out until this morning. This was one of the few times that visible lighting bolts made themselves seen. The storm itself was brilliant and constant lighting flashes. I wish that tree hadnt been there.
The monsoon storms that converged on Tucson the other night were spectacular. This angry cell over central Tucson was very intense. The city lights painted the clouds and rain mists orange because of the 35.7 second exp. I was safely 15 miles away on a hill top enjoying the show which went on all over the valley throughout the night. There were many isolated storms within view caused by a mesascale convective vortex that just snuck up on us. I got great photos from four different storms that night in a five hour session.
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The record breaking and world famous Catatumbo lightning at Maracaibo´s lake
El mundialmente famoso y record Guinness rayo del Catatumbo
Welcome to my new project: 8-Bit Fatalities. The idea behind the project stems from growing up at an arcade, and my eventual love affair with Mortal Kombat.
Before Mortal Kombat, violence in video games was largely unheard of or ignored because of its extreme pixelized simplicity. But when Liu Kang and Sub Zero came along to finish off arcade goers the world changed and parents were in an uproar (not mine though).
I couldn't understand what the big deal was though, because as a videogame player all my life I had already considered my actions life and death. Just because you didn't see pac-man violently tearing into the ghosts with his jaws, or mario smashing in the brains of a goomba, thats what I knew was happening. I knew my goal was to kill these enemies, so Mortal Kombat wasn't a big change for me. To me, it was still just a game, where fake deaths happened as part of game progression. To uninformed adults, however, Mortal Kombat was a photo realistic depiction of kids becoming complicit in virtual murders. And so, I decided to show everyone just what I imagined was happening when these little blocky, pixelized abstractions did when they came into contact with eachother, but in a much more visceral, and gory way than could ever be shown with limited graphical systems.
Today, we look on in horror as "bolt 3" rips through our cute, but nefarious, and ever hard to hit nemesis, the Cactuar. The Black Mage from Final Fantasy 1 was never a very nice "person."