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View of Sharpness Docks, Gloucestershire.
© Mike Broome
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Name: SHARP, MAURICE EDWARD
Initials: M E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Middlesex Regiment
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 03/12/1944
Service No: 5511954
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. B. 12.
Cemetery: VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Edited Curiosity PR image of Mount Sharp in the middle of Gale Crater.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22313
Original caption: This mosaic taken by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover looks uphill at Mount Sharp, which Curiosity has been climbing. Spanning the center of the image is an area with clay-bearing rocks that scientists are eager to explore; it could shed additional light on the role of water in creating Mount Sharp. The mosaic was assembled from dozens of images taken by Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam). It was taken on Sol 1931 back in January.
Mount Sharp stands in the middle of Gale Crater, which is 96 miles (154 kilometers) in diameter. This mound, which Curiosity has been climbing since 2014, likely formed in the presence of water at various points of time in Mars ancient history. That makes it an ideal place to study how water influenced the habitability of Mars billions of years ago.
The scene has been white-balanced so the colors of the rock materials resemble how they would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.
Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the Mastcam. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover.
More information about Curiosity is online at www.nasa.gov/msl and mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.
Photojournal Note: Also available is the full resolution TIFF file PIA22313_full.tif. This file may be too large to view from a browser; it can be downloaded onto your desktop by right-clicking on the previous link and viewed with image viewing software.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Image Addition Date:
2018-03-22
A near miss; the hawk was chasing a bird that barely managed to escape into the branches. We didn't see enough to identify who had been the intended breakfast, and the hawk didn't pause to make another attempt. This occurred at the Playa south of Willcox, AZ.
When it comes to choosing nest sites Sharp-shinned hawks prefer low points in the local topography. In large forests in undulating terrain, they favor the valleys, hollows or other places which are lower than average. Even on hillsides, the nest is usually nearer the bottom than the top, and is often in a gully or other dip in the land surface. This is a preference rather than an absolute need, and where no choice is available, Sharp-shins occasionally nest in woods on hilltops. This preference for low points could reflect the need for cover and seclusion, and is anyway in keeping with the general "low profile" lifestyle of the species.
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge..February 2012
A Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) certification course was held at Fort Buchanan, June 15-26, as part of the U.S. Army's qualification requirements for sexual assault response coordinators and victim advocates by the 1st Mission Support Command (1st MSC), U.S. Army Reserve-Puerto Rico.
We took a few hours on Wednesday to head down to Dartmoor, for no better reason than having a little time to fill, and not having been for a while. The weather was lousy, and luckily we had Mrs W's car, rather than the Moggy.
This is taken looking roughly south south east from the pull-in on the B3357, map reference SX682733, towards Sharp Tor