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Updated 6880 Surface Explorer, making it more of a mobile exploration platform.

Walkers were used by the Federation ground crew to traverse inhospitable planet surfaces, covering large tracts where exploratory skimmers and other flyers were too dangerous to use.

 

In later years of the Federation the same exploratory walkers had scanning arrays and other sensors replaced with weapon mounts to defend distant outposts from Blacktron attack.

 

Inspired by ama77what's brilliantly tiny Mighty Mk3 and in the background of course Legoloverman's brilliantly detailed Recon Walker (now almost a decade old!). These three represent in between members of the family! The old grey family. (did I already say I love old grey?)

Surfacing. ©Copyright 2017 Karlton Huber Photography - all rights reserved.

 

The top of this building reminded me of a submarine conning tower. I put a little tilt on the composition to give the impression of a submarine surfacing.

 

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I got my Solarscope 50 telescope out again today to see if there was any interesting detail on the suns surface.

This seemed to be the most interesting bit. There was also a large prominence, but I couldn't seem to get the detail on that.

Camera was a QHY5III462C

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Travelling through a wormhole i felt a tingling sensation in my body.

It was like electricity vibrating, but there wasn't any pain.

This had to be much faster then the speed of light. Before i could blink

,i was out of the Universe .

I went to Japan from March to June.

I had to get in on the FebRovery action... Nothing too crazy, but still some CS action that should qualify this for rover status

Nature's real lovely and all - it's just being amongst it that gives me the creeps.

Satellite photograph?

Surfacing the Chobe River

Botswana

Plotting his route down, amid the columns of light.

via Tarmacadam Surfaces ift.tt/1nXrrua

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UM2 MI79 (Z8100) en surface à Paris Nord, s'apprêtant au départ pour effectuer une mission à destination de Mitry - Claye.

Let's get scientific - surface tension, meniscus......More detail on leaf viewed large.

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Willamette Park, Portland, Oregon.

A couple of shots taken close to the surface of the river Yare as the sun had set

Today we at the We're Here group are visiting the Surfaces

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Marree/Herrgott Springs.

These semi desert Aboriginal lands were first sighted by white men in 1840 when Edward John Eyre and his exploration party reached Lake Eyre. For some time people thought Lake Torrens and Lake Eyre was one big inland sea but explorations by Surveyor General George Goyder in 1860 proved that the lakes were separate. At that time Governor MacDonnell named the lake after Eyre (now Kati Thanda). It is about 90 kms from Marree. This area of SA is underpinned by deep artesian waters contained under great pressure and in some places they bubble to the surface forming springs. Salts and other minerals from the saline waters eventually create calcium walls around the springs as the water evaporates hence the term mound springs. When Sir Charles Todd was heading the construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870- 1872 from Port Augusta to Darwin a camp was located at Herrgott Springs which was the first European name for the site of Marree. It was named after explorer John McDougall Stuart‘s botanist Joseph Herrgott who discovered a mound spring in 1859. There are over 5,000 mound springs in SA and they were vital to the construction of the Overland Telegraph.

 

The town emerged when the Great Northern Railway reached Herrgott Springs in 1884. Before the survey a hotel and a general store opened in 1882.From the beginning the locals and towns people called the place Marree but the government railway station was Herrgott Springs. The Police Station and Post Office opened in 1883 and the school in 1884. During World War One this German name was changed to Marree in line with previous local usage. By 1885 the town had the two storey Great Northern Hotel, two general stores, two butchers, three saddlers and an iron Wesleyan Methodist church and it had 600 residents. This church was used as the government school which was only built in 1908. The Post Office began in a tent until a building was erected in 1886 and it doubled as a repeater station for the Overland Telegraph. The Marree hospital opened in 1912. The railway was the focus of the early town and in 1891 there was a government survey to see if a railway line from Marree up the Birdsville was viable. Another survey was undertaken in 1916 but nothing eventuated. Supples went up and down to Birdsville by camel trains

 

Many Afghan cameleers were based at the springs as this was the starting point for camel trains to Birdsville, Oodnadatta and elsewhere. Around 1900 about 1,500 camels were based in Marree with 800 owned by just one Afghan. Although motor transport developed in the 1920s the Birdsville track cameleers were in Marree until 1949. Recently a replica Muslim mosque has been erected in the town to commemorate the role the Afghans played in servicing the Birdsville track. The first Mosque open by 1884 and was replaced twice before it closed. Its prayer rugs were sent to the Gilbert St. Mosque in Adelaide. Afghan names in Marree included Dervish, Moosha, Khan, Balook, Wahub, Dadih, Goolamdeen etc. Tom Kruse ran a truck mail service to Birdsville from 1936 to 1963 although the service continued until 1975 when an air service took over. 300 or so date palms were planted in Marree as a trial in 1884 but they did not thrive after about 30 years. The new standard gauge railway to Marree opened in 1957 employing about 85 men as the Ghan to Alice Springs changed gauge here from standard to the narrow 3’6” gauge. This railway closed in 1980 and the town has declined but tourism keeps it alive. Marree has a population of about 100 of which 60 % are men so it is a great place for women to find a partner! Marree Aboriginal School has two primary and one secondary class and six part time teachers. The town also has a Royal Flying Doctor service office, old Commonwealth Railway deserted train engines, and one of the trucks used by Tom Kruse from 1936.

 

Like a parasol, this mushroom filters the sunlight and I love the way the gills are highlighted so I cranked the tripod all the way down to better catch it and the light in the leaves.

Humpback whale, Frederick Sound, Alaska

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