NASA New Camera Gives Scientists an EPIC Perspective of Earth

New NASA Camera

Gives Scientists an EPIC Perspective

of Earth

On March 9, 2016, EPIC captured a powerful series of images of Earth during a solar eclipse. The eclipse was viewed by the DSCOVR spacecraft located 1.5 million km from Earth. The eclipse appears as a dark circle surrounded by a brighter disk. The image of the eclipse moves across Earth as it rotates.

The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) connected to NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is NASA’s new tool to provide scientists with a unique perspective of the Earth’s clouds, land surfaces, and aerosols. EPIC captures measurements in visible, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths, and collects color images of the Earth every two hours. Researchers use these photos to track identifying features as the planet rotates.

Jay Herman, senior research scientist at UMBC’s Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) and the EPIC instrument lead investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, explains that ultraviolet and near-infrared wavelengths allow him to watch as dust from the Sahara Desert travels west across the Atlantic Ocean, for example. “It’s the only view we have like this where everything is at the exact same instant in time, even though the local times are different,” he says.

Earth rotates through an entire day as captured in this animation of 22 still images taken on Sept. 17, 2015 by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft.
Credits: NASA

Other satellite instruments in orbit can pick up this data at fixed local times, but EPIC provides day-long views of this process. “We can see the progression in real time, as it flows across the Atlantic,” Herman adds.

The results from the first EPIC images were shared at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco on Monday, December 14.

http://news.umbc.edu/new-nasa-camera-gives-scientists-an-epic-perspective-of-earth-umbc-researcher-explains/
 

NASA * Human Fingerprint on Global Air Quality

NASA

Human Fingerprint on Global Air Quality

Using new, high-resolution global satellite maps of air quality indicators, NASA scientists tracked air pollution trends over the last decade in various regions and 195 cities around the globe. The United States, Europe and Japan have improved air quality thanks to emission control regulations, while China, India and the Middle East, with their fast-growing economies and expanding industry, have seen more air pollution.

Scientist Bryan Duncan and his team examined observations made from 2005 to 2014 by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument aboard NASA's Aura satellite. One of the atmospheric gases the instrument detects is nitrogen dioxide, a yellow-brown gas that is a common emission from cars, power plants and industrial activity. Nitrogen dioxide can quickly transform into ground-level ozone, a major respiratory pollutant in urban smog. Nitrogen dioxide hotspots, used as an indicator of general air quality, occur over most major cities in developed and developing nations.

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Air pollution in the world

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/new-nasa-satellite-maps-show-human-fingerprint-on-global-air-quality

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Don't sit there!

Rat in the Park

Don't Sit There!
Best of Just For Laughs Gags

Goodbye

Life Beta Version

Natural Phenomena You Won't Believe

10 Natural Phenomena

You Won't Believe Outdo The Movies

If you find nature amazing and have ever wondered about the most amazing natural phenomena in the world then this is the video for you. From Bioluminescent plankton to other amazing natural phenomenon here are ten natural phenomena that outdo the movies.

Here are ten natural phenomena that outdo the movies.

Bioluminescent Plankton

Perhaps one of the most magical experiences available on the planet, swimming or kayaking in a glowing sea that reacts to your movements is seriously cool. Microscopic plankton are responsible for the blue glowing waters in places like Mosquito Bay Puerto Rico, probably so-named in an attempt to keep tourists away. 

Underwater Crop Circles

If you go diving during pufferfish mating season, you may happen upon some intricate, circular designs in the sand on the ocean floor. Tetradontidae, more commonly known as pufferfish are one of many species that undergo elaborate mating rituals that involve the building of structures. The male pufferfish swims along the sand creating rifts and ridges which together create a circular nest where the female can lay her eggs.

Fire Rainbows

So called because they often appear as rainbow coloured flames in the sky, these colourful phenomena are commonly believed to occur in the presence of large fires. The truth is that fire rainbows are not unlike normal rainbows, requiring nothing more than sun and clouds to appear. 

Sundogs

No, that’s not a Tatooine sky, it’s just a sundog. Perfect sundog rings give the illusion that there is more than one sun in the sky, by causing two glaring lights to appear on either side of the sun.

The Christmas Island Crab Migration

If you thought the stampede scene from The Lion King was good, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The red crabs of Christmas Island live inland in the forest, but every year they migrate to the shore to mate. This is pretty typical of many species, but the red crabs are way more showy about it, migrating across a relatively small island by the tens of millions! This creates a saturation of the bright red animals, which move in what can appear to be sheets across both natural terrain and roads. And they do it with astonishing precision.

Spinning Ice Circles.

These look like something straight out of Narnia. Perfectly round discs of ice slowly spinning in otherwise still waters. For a long time people thought these phenomena were caused by subsurface eddies and currents, but researchers in Belgium recently discovered that the cause of these rotating river discs is density. Clusters of ice chunks form on the surface of the water. As they melt, the cold water running off of them becomes denser than the warmer water around it. Because of this difference in density, the colder water sinks straight down.

The Flowering Desert

The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the driest deserts on the planet and the plants that live there know it. Normal annual rainfall in the Atacama is a measly fifteen millimetres, but once every decade or so there is a downpour. And when the rains come, everybody takes advantage of it. It takes a lot of water to make a flower. A desert cactus normally needs to save up water until it has enough stored to create a bloom and hopefully get pollinated, so a desert downpour is kind of like a one day bonus level for chances to procreate. The sudden influx of water launches the desert flora into action and the blooms are abundant.

Honeypot Ants.

These insects may have been the inspiration for Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. Like other ant species, honeypot ants store food deep in their hills, but that is where the similarities stop because honeypot ants use their own workers as storage containers

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Boomerang for Gmail: Send Later + Email Appear When You Need It

How to «Send Later»

Boomerang for Gmail

Now fully integrated with Gmail new compose!

Boomerang for Gmail lets you send, view, and act on emails on your own schedule.
Pros
Lets you send emails later
Recognizes dates in messages

Cons
No snooze feature
Firefox/Chrome only

 Make Your Email Appear

When You Need It

With Boomerang for Gmail
By Liane Cassavoy
PCWorld - Dec 20, 2011

PCWorld Rating:**** (4 out of 5)

Wouldn't it be great if your email client could read your mind? You know, sending messages at just the right time. Reminding you when people don't reply to your messages. And taking messages out of your inbox when you don't need them, but returning them to the top of your message pile later on, when you do. Boomerang for Gmail offers all of these features. This free Firefox/Chrome extension can't quite read your mind, but sometimes it feels like the next best thing.

Once installed and given permission to access your Gmail or Google Apps email account, Boomerang appears adds a "send later" button on the top of messages you compose, next to Google's own "Send" button. Pressing "Send Later" lets you choose between sending the message at a set interval (in a certain number of hours or days) or at a certain date and time in the future. This feature is handy when you're composing a message at a time when it could get lost in the shuffle, such as over the weekend or during off-hours, and would like to send it at a time when it's more likely to get noticed.

Boomerang also adds an option that says "Boomerang this message;" this appears right above your message window. You can choose to "Boomerang" the message--which essentially means have it return to the top of your inbox--in a set number of hours or days, or at a set date and time in the future. This feature is much like the email reminders offered by Followup.cc and Followupthen.com. Those services work with any email service and email client, which is a nice touch for anyone not using Gmail. (Baydin does offer another version of Boomerang, called Boomerang for Outlook).

Followup.cc and Followupthen.com also require an extra step: You have to send a message to them in order to have your message sent back to you. Boomerang for Gmail simply requires that you click this box, and includes the option to boomerang the message only if no one replies to it--a nice way to be reminded that you're waiting for action.

When you open a message, Boomerang also asks if you want to boomerang it back to you inbox at another time. And if the message includes a date--such a proposed meeting time or a due date--Boomerang recognizes this, and suggests returning it to your inbox the day before.

Boomerang's Basic version is free, but limits you to 10 messages per month. It does work with both Gmail and Google Apps accounts, though. The $5-per-month Personal version (Gmail only) offers unlimited messages, as does the $15-per-month Professional version, which supports both Gmail and Google Apps accounts, too.

If you use Gmail and Firefox, Boomerang for Gmail could quickly become an indispensible tool. I only wish the free version offered a few more messages.

--Liane Cassavoy

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The Good Wife 📺 Reasons To Watch

Reasons You Need

To Watch

‘The Good Wife’

By Tyler Coates - Jun 29, 2015 

10 Reasons You Need To Watch ‘The Good Wife’

The Good Wife is the best show on television. There, I said it. Yes, you wouldn’t expect as much from a network legal procedural airing on Sunday nights on CBS, but it’s as groundbreaking and transgressive as anything you might find on a cable network or a streaming platform. It’s so good that I managed to watch the first five seasons in a six-week period after begrudgingly watching the pilot after friends harassed me for months about what I’d been missing out on.
Being a late adopter isn’t so bad, as the series first five seasons are available to stream on Amazon Prime. It also means I can ecstatically discuss what’s happening on the show with my equally enlightened friends. Still not convinced? Let me break it down for you and try to convince you to give The Good Wife a shot.

1

It's not just for moms
The title alone makes The Good Wife sound like a cheesy soap or, at best, a cheesy legal procedural. But it goes knee-deep into the intersection of political machines, the muddy grey areas of the legal system, and social justice. Sure, there’s the expected relationship woes for Alicia Florrick and her disgraced politician husband, but that is just the tip of the iceberg for this brilliantly crafted series.

 
2

Alicia Florrick is one of the most smartly crafted female characters on TV

A former stay-at-home mom who gave up her law career for her husband and kids, Alicia is forced back into the workplace when her State’s Attorney husband goes to prison after a corruption and prostitution scandal. Initially timid and cautious about returning to work, she quickly becomes one of the fiercest lawyers in Chicago. But that doesn’t mean her personal life is at all settled, as she struggles with her feelings toward her boss and her continuous rocky relationship with her husband once he’s released from prison and runs for governor of Illinois.

3

Peter Florrick is just as compelling

Peter is initially the villain from the series’ start: he cheats on Alicia, and brings shame to the family after soliciting prostitutes. He could have easily remained a static, despicable character — but that’d be too boring. Instead, he is exonerated and returns to politics, getting his old job back and running for governor of Illinois. And his marriage to Alicia remains one of the most progressive and thoughtful TV pairings in recent years, as at times it’s as loving as it is incredibly flawed.

 

4

The friendship between Alicia and Kalinda is complex

Kalinda is the badass investigator at Alicia’s firm, and the two quickly become friends outside of work. But their friendship is tested when a secret from Kalinda’s past comes out in the open — one that reveals the nature of her work with Peter Florrick. The pair then struggle to repair their broken friendship, which is fun to watch only because you get to figure out exactly when Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi started to hate each other in real life.

5

There's an intense love triangle

The previously mentioned relationships between Alicia and Peter and Alicia and her boss, Will, get super crazy around Season Three, when the latter turns from professional to romantic. It throws another wrench into the cog for Alicia’s job, which is already constantly complicated thanks to her husband’s political career and her status as a high-profile politician’s wife. But the show keeps its audience on their toes — it’s almost impossible to pick just one suitor for Alicia because her respective relationships with both keep having twists and turns.

6

It has amazing guest stars

In addition to it’s already amazing cast, The Good Wife features a slew of guest stars every week, with many returning for regular gigs as judges or opposing attorneys. Some of the best judges are played by the likes of Denis O’Hare, Bebe Neuwirth, and Ana Gastayer, while Martha Plimpton and Mamie Gummer are two of the more ruthless lawyers that Alicia and her firm go up against (or, in some cases, must collaborate with). But the most notorious and infuriating recurring character is Michael J. Fox’s Louis Canning, a cunning lawyer with ambitions to take over Alicia’s firm.

7

It's not just a case-of-the-week series

Like the rest of CBS’s line-up, The Good Wife is a case-of-the-week procedural, with its plots and story lines wrapping up in each episode. There are a few narrative arcs, of course, that follow Alicia and her husband’s marital woes as well as his political ambitions. In Seasons Five and Six, however, the show shifts drastically to feature several serial narratives at once as Alicia and her colleague, Cary Agos, leave their firm to start their own.

8

It tackles Internet culture without being lame

Yes, the fake Google / Facebook mashup that’s a heavy moneymaker for Alicia’s firm has a groan-worthy name: Chumhum. But despite the somewhat stilted website titles, The Good Wife focuses heavily on new media and the ways in which it frequently complicates the law. Alicia is often a bit out-of-touch when it comes to social media and Internet culture, which is why, thankfully, her son Zach is there to pick up the slack.

9

It makes fun of cable TV

In the Golden Age of Television, gritty cable shows with anti-heroes seem to overshadow traditional network dramas with their episodic narratives and 22-episode seasons. That’s why The Good Wife stands out as such a stellar television series: it has the characteristics of a network series while having the writing, acting, and filmmaking talents of a cable series. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t sometimes throw shade toward the offerings on HBO, AMC, and FX. A recurring gag in Season Five involves Alicia watching Darkness at Noon, a brutal crime drama that looks a bit like HBO’s True Detective combined with AMC’s Low Winter Sun. The best part? Alicia can’t help but hate-watch even though she can’t seem to follow the show at all.

10

Christine Baranski

I mean, come on. She’s a goddamn boss.

http://decider.com/2015/06/29/10-reasons-you-need-to-watch-the-good-wife/ 

Central Park - From Above

Central Park

Manhattan, New York

The video has been created from the aerial photo panorama. 
Original virtual tour can be found on www.airpano.com

Central Park 2017 - 4K

Jelly Fish

 

 

   

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Fun with Cats

  

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