Space A La China

Space A La China



This is an excellent illustration that space can be experienced in very different ways depending on your cultural standpoint. I can't express how much I love the perspective of space exploration inherit in this happy illustration. So fundamentally different than our streamlined Western approach. :-)

Happiness and friendship in space!

Thrown my way by Andrzej

Mars - Here We Come Again

Together to Mars



Credits: NASA, J. Bell (Cornell U.) and M. Wolff (SSI)


ESA and NASA join forces to explore Mars. Awesome! :-)

Climate Change and Sea Level - I

Climate Change and Sea Level Rise



The Mississippi delta as it would look like if land continues sinking and sea level rises one meter.
A new model predicts that 10 percent of Louisiana will be submerged by the year 2100.M.

Credit: Blum and H. Robert

There are several factors contributing to changing sea level. Today, we have not yet understood the dynamic Earth well enough to predict sea level. The uncertainties are too large for politicians and coastal managers to handle. This is the topic of my July edition of A Green Space - A Green Earth. .

Topographic World Maps

Topography





Japan and USA have worked out a nice and comprehensive world map of our planet. Nifty! :-)

Fuji-san

Fuji-san



Magical Mount Fuji.



Credit: NASA

Ulysses bites the stardust

Ulysses bites the stardust



Credit: ESA

"Ulysses is the first spacecraft to survey the environment in space above and below the poles of the Sun in the four dimensions of space and time. Among many other ground-breaking results, the hugely successful mission showed that the Sun's magnetic field is carried into the Solar System in a more complicated manner than previously believed. "

After one year prolongation ESA and NASA have jointly decided to put Ulysses on 'monitor' mode only from June 30th 2009. Ulysses finally bites the stardust.

Sun burns tracks

Traces of Sun





Credit: Maciej Zapiór

Tracks of Sun

This is what the Sun leaves behind on the sky if you look trough a can...Awesome photography!