SYSKEPSI EPITROPIS SYNEDRIOY ND (2)
Originally uploaded by Νέα Δημοκρατία
10/9/09
9/29/09
9/1/09
International Space Station (NASA, March 2009)
International Space Station (NASA, March 2009)
Originally uploaded by nasa1fan/MSFC
Hi everyone -- I came across this image as part of something else I was working on today, and I thought it was too good not to share. An image of the backlit International Space Station, taken in March of 2009. Enjoy!
6/16/09
Back to the Moon (NASA, Moon, 6/16/09)
Back to the Moon (NASA, Moon, 6/16/09)
Originally uploaded by nasa1fan
This is a really nice graphic that was developed for the LCROSS/LRO missions.
Image credit: NASA
Follow the "New Moon Missions" blog from NASA:
blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/moon_missions/
Compose your blog entry
6/10/09
Mars & Phobos [1680x1050]
Mars & Phobos [1680x1050]
Originally uploaded by TopTechWriter.US
Source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/pia04304
Image of Mars compiled from images captured by the Viking Orbiter 1. The center of the scene shows the entire Valles Marineris canyon system, over 1,860 miles (3,000 km) long and up to 5 miles (8 km) deep, extending from Noctis Labyrinthus, the arcuate system of graben to the west, to the chaotic terrain to the east. Credit: NASA/USGS
Source: www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars_Express/SEM21TVJD1E_1.html
The image of Phobos was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, is one of the highest-resolution pictures so far of the Martian moon Phobos.
The image shows the Mars-facing side of the moon, taken from a distance of less than 200 kilometres with a resolution of about seven metres per pixel during orbit 756, on 22 August 2004. Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
Uploaded by TopTechWriter.US on 12 Apr 08, 5.16AM EEST.
6/1/09
Space Shuttle Atlantis Rides Piggyback on Way Home (NASA, Space Shuttle, 6/1/09)
Space Shuttle Atlantis Rides Piggyback on Way Home (NASA, Space Shuttle, 6/1/09)
Originally uploaded by nasa1fan
Space Shuttle Atlantis Rides Piggyback on Way Home (NASA, Space Shuttle, 6/1/09)
Hi everyone -- this is a topic I don't normally cover on my postings: the space shuttle. But the Marshall Center is helping out with the Shuttle Ferry Flight blog, and I thought we'd share these great images from it. You can read the blog and ride along with Atlantis here:
blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/shuttleferry
Caption: Space shuttle Atlantis’ ferry flight is under way! The modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft carrying Atlantis took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California at 11:06 a.m. EDT. The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is heading to Biggs Army Air Field in El Paso, Texas, and is expected to arrive about 1:10 p.m. EDT. The shuttle and the ferry flight team will stay at Biggs overnight and then continue on tomorrow morning to NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Image credit: NASA
5/31/09
5/29/09
Artist Concept: Ares I, Ares I-X Rockets (NASA, Ares I-X, 5/28/09)
Artist Concept: Ares I, Ares I-X Rockets (NASA, Ares I-X, 5/28/09)
Originally uploaded by nasa1fan
Read more about the Ares I-X launch:
www.nasa.gov/ares
p.s. You can see all of the Ares photos in the Ares Group in Flickr at: www.flickr.com/groups/ares/ We'd love to have you as a member!
Artist Concept: Ares I-X Collage (NASA, Ares I-X, 5/28/09)
Artist Concept: Ares I-X Collage (NASA, Ares I-X, 5/28/09)
Originally uploaded by nasa1fan
Artist concept of the Ares I-X rocket.
Read more about the Ares I-X launch:
www.nasa.gov/ares
p.s. You can see all of the Ares photos in the Ares Group in Flickr at: www.flickr.com/groups/ares/ We'd love to have you as a member!
5/17/09
5/16/09
5/13/09
Atlantis Comes Home [1680x1050]
Atlantis Comes Home [1680x1050]
Originally uploaded by TopTechWriter.US
Atlantis Comes Home [1680x1050]
Space Shuttle Atlantis and the STS-117 crew returned home safely today, completing their 14-day mission to the International Space Station. The mission launched on June 8, 2007, and ended today at 3:49 p.m EDT, when Atlantis touched down at Edwards Air Force Base.
Source: NASA
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_853.html
4/28/09
Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (NASA, 4/29/09)
Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (NASA, 4/29/09)
Originally uploaded by nasa1fan
Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (NASA, 4/29/09)
The space shuttle twin solid rocket boosters separate from the orbiter and external tank at an altitude of approximately 24 miles. They descend on parachutes and land in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast, where they are recovered by ships, returned to land, and refurbished for reuse. These images show a typical descent phase and parachute deployment events of the boosters after separation from the tank and orbiter during a shuttle launch.
Image credit: NASA
4/27/09
4/26/09
4/25/09
4/9/09
Coronet Cluster is Star-Making Hotspot (Chandra)
Coronet Cluster is Star-Making Hotspot (Chandra)
Originally uploaded by nasa1fan
Coronet Cluster is Star-Making Hotspot (Chandra)
The Corona Australis region -- containing, at its heart, the Coronet Cluster -- is one of the nearest and most active regions of ongoing star formation. At only about 420 light years away, the Coronet is over three times closer than the Orion Nebula is to Earth. The Coronet contains a loose cluster of a few dozen young stars with a wide range of masses and at various stages of evolution.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/J. Forbrich; Infrared: NASA/Spitzer/CfA/L. Allen
4/5/09
4/3/09
3/26/09
Erratic Black Hole Regulates Inside Quasar (NASA, Chandra, 03/25/09)
Erratic Black Hole...(NASA, Chandra, 03/25/09) Originally uploaded by nasa1fan
New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have made a major advance in explaining how a special class of black holes may shut off the high-speed jets they produce. The results suggest that these black holes have a mechanism for regulating the rate at which they grow. The study looks at a famous micro-quasar in the Milky Way galaxy and regions close to its event horizon -- the point of no return.
Black holes come in many sizes: the supermassive ones, including those in quasars, which weigh in at millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, and the much smaller stellar-mass black holes which have measured masses in the range of about 7 to 25 times the Sun's mass. Some stellar-mass black holes launch powerful jets of particles and radiation, like seen in quasars, and are called "micro-quasars".
The new study looks at a famous micro-quasar in our own Galaxy, and regions close to its event horizon, or point of no return. This system, GRS 1915+105 (GRS 1915 for short), contains a black hole about 14 times the mass of the Sun that is feeding off material from a nearby companion star. As the material swirls toward the black hole, an accretion disk forms.
This system shows remarkably unpredictable and complicated variability ranging from timescales of seconds to months, including 14 different patterns of variation. These variations are caused by a poorly understood connection between the disk and the radio jet seen in GRS 1915.
Chandra, with its spectrograph, has observed GRS 1915 eleven times since its launch in 1999. These studies reveal that the jet in GRS 1915 may be periodically choked off when a hot wind, seen in X-rays, is driven off the accretion disk around the black hole. The wind is believed to shut down the jet by depriving it of matter that would have otherwise fueled it. Conversely, once the wind dies down, the jet can re-emerge.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Harvard/J. Neilsen et al. Optical: Palomar DSS2
Read more/see larger images:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photo09-020...
Learn more about Chandra:
www.nasa.gov/chandra
p.s. You can see all of our Chandra photos in the Chandra Group in Flickr at: www.flickr.com/groups/chandranasa/ We'd love to have you as a member!
3/22/09
toomanytribbles: battlestar galactica of the gaps: a review of the final episode
toomanytribbles: battlestar galactica of the gaps: a review of the final episode
3/21/09
treble tribbles
treble tribbles
Originally uploaded by nexus6zora
enjoy tmt
treble tribbles
i've been chuckling about this for awhile. i need to redo this, but it's fine fun for now.
...for those who are wondering were i have been, i haven't felt like doing much of anything lately.
tribble nibble
tribble nibble
Originally uploaded by nexus6zora
dedicated to TMT
tribble nibble
...a bit more humor ; )
3/11/09
3/9/09
2/28/09
SciFiDrive
I found this fascinating quote today:
regarding posters from star trek 11
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You should read the whole article.
Fujifilm Finepix S2000HD Review
I found this fascinating quote today:
Basically, it’s a mini DSLR look-alike, nearly pocketable, with a 15x zoom lens, imaging to a CCD capable of acquiring 10.0 million pixels. In stills shooting, the camera uses an optical stabiliser; when shooting movies, a less desirable digital stabiliser is used.Fujifilm Finepix S2000HD Review, Feb 2009
You should read the whole article.
2/21/09
2/18/09
metablogging.gr » Blog Archive » Δίκη blogme: Επεισόδιο 3ο
I found this fascinating quote today:
Την Τετάρτη 18/2 πρόκειται να εκδικαστεί (;) η υπόθεση του blogme, του Αντώνη Τσιπρόπουλου δηλαδή, που το καλοκαίρι του 2006 είχε συλληφθεί κατόπιν μήνυσης κατ’ αγνώστων του Δημοσθένη Λιακόπουλου (του γνωστού τηλεβιβλιοπώλη), επειδή ο aggregator του αναδημοσίευε τα ποστ από το blog του FunEl (κατά του οποίου βασικά στρεφόταν η μήνυση Λιακόπουλου), όχι για κανένα άλλο λόγο αλλά επειδή αυτό κάνουν οι aggregators: αναδημοσιεύουν περιεχόμενο.metablogging.gr » Blog Archive » Δίκη blogme: Επεισόδιο 3ο, Jun 2007
You should read the whole article.
2/14/09
Happy Valentine Day
Amor
Amor
Amor
Nacio de ti
Nacio de mi
De la esperanza
Amor
Amor
Amor
Nacio de Dios
Para los dos
Nacio del alma
Sentir que tus besos anidaron en mi
Igual que palomas mensajeras de luz
Saber que mis besos se quedaron en ti
Haciendo en tus labios la senal de la cruz
Amor
Amor
Amor
Nacio de ti
Nacio de mi
De la esperanza
Sentir que tus besos anidaron en mi
Amor
Amor
Amor
Nacio de ti
Nacio de mi
De le esperanza
space climax
#links#links#links
"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler
2/8/09
2/7/09
Demetrio's Travel Pages: Happy Birthday Charles Darwin ..δωσε τις σκεψεις σου για τα 200 χρονια απο την γεννηση του Δαρβινου.
2/2/09
Demetrio's Travel Pages: SOUTHERN CROSS a poem by Niko Kavadias ...αφιερωμα στον Νικο Καββαδια
Demetrio's Travel Pages:
SOUTHERN CROSS a poem by Niko Kavadias ...αφιερωμα στον Νικο Καββαδια
live long and prosper
SOUTHERN CROSS a poem by Niko Kavadias ...αφιερωμα στον Νικο Καββαδια
1/31/09
Ταξίδι Χωρίς Επιστροφή: "Εκείνο που διέσχισε το δωμάτιο, με κατεύθυνση προς το κεντρικό τραπέζι, δεν ήταν άνθρωπος
ενα υπεροχο ιστοπονημα,
μια καταπληκτικη αναρτηση,
μια θαυμασια μεταφραση...
μην το χασετε.
Μιλτιάδης Θαλασσινός (Μαύρος Γάτος) Ταξίδι Χωρίς Επιστροφή: "Εκείνο που διέσχισε το δωμάτιο, με κατεύθυνση προς το κεντρικό τραπέζι, δεν ήταν άνθρωπος"#links
live long and prosper
μια καταπληκτικη αναρτηση,
μια θαυμασια μεταφραση...
μην το χασετε.
Μιλτιάδης Θαλασσινός (Μαύρος Γάτος) Ταξίδι Χωρίς Επιστροφή: "Εκείνο που διέσχισε το δωμάτιο, με κατεύθυνση προς το κεντρικό τραπέζι, δεν ήταν άνθρωπος"#links
1/30/09
2008 Global Temperature
Posted January 21, 2009
download large image (2 MB, PNG) acquired January 1, 2008 - December 1, 2008
download large image (120 KB, PDF) acquired January 1, 2008 - December 1, 2008
Calendar year 2008 was the coolest year since 2000, according to the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) analysis of worldwide temperature measurements, but it was still in the top ten warmest years since the start of record-keeping in 1880. Given the range of uncertainty in the measurements, the GISS team concluded that 2008 was somewhere between the seventh and the tenth warmest year on record. (The 10 warmest years have all occurred within the 12-year period from 1997-2008.)
The map above shows global temperature anomalies in 2008 compared to the 1950-1980 baseline period. Below-average temperatures are shown in blue, average temperatures are white, and above-average temperatures are red. (Gray indicates no data.) Most of the world was either near normal or warmer than normal. Eastern Europe, Russia, the Arctic, and the Antarctic Peninsula were exceptionally warm (1.5 to 3.5 degrees Celsius above average). The temperature in the United States in 2008 was not much different than the 1951-1980 mean, which makes 2008 cooler than all of the previous years this decade. Large areas of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean were cooler than the long-term average, linked to a La Niña episode that began in 2007.
The graph shows the long-term trend in surface temperatures since 1880. The annual average temperatures are shown in light orange, and the jaggedness of the line indicates how much the average global surface temperature varies from year to year. Because climate is so variable form year to year, it can be easier to spot long-term trends through multi-year averages. The dark red line shows the five-year running average, which is an average of five years of annual temperatures centered on a given year. Even this five-year average shows that climate has ups and downs, but the long-term increase in global average surface temperatures is obvious. The gray “barbells” indicate the range of uncertainty. Not surprisingly, the uncertainty is larger for older measurements than for more recent ones.
In their report on 2008 temperature trends, the scientists at NASA GISS, led by James Hansen, attribute the relative coolness of 2008 to the persistent La Niña, which continued as of late 2008/early 2009. The summary also describes how the delay in the start of the next solar sunspot cycle, volcanic activity from Aleutian Island volcanoes (both Okmok and Kasatochi erupted in August), and emission rates of greenhouse gases could influence average global temperatures in the next few years.
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. (2008, December 16). Global Temperature Trends: 2008 Annual Summation. Accessed January 20, 2009.
National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center
live long and prosper
download large image (2 MB, PNG) acquired January 1, 2008 - December 1, 2008
download large image (120 KB, PDF) acquired January 1, 2008 - December 1, 2008
Calendar year 2008 was the coolest year since 2000, according to the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) analysis of worldwide temperature measurements, but it was still in the top ten warmest years since the start of record-keeping in 1880. Given the range of uncertainty in the measurements, the GISS team concluded that 2008 was somewhere between the seventh and the tenth warmest year on record. (The 10 warmest years have all occurred within the 12-year period from 1997-2008.)
The map above shows global temperature anomalies in 2008 compared to the 1950-1980 baseline period. Below-average temperatures are shown in blue, average temperatures are white, and above-average temperatures are red. (Gray indicates no data.) Most of the world was either near normal or warmer than normal. Eastern Europe, Russia, the Arctic, and the Antarctic Peninsula were exceptionally warm (1.5 to 3.5 degrees Celsius above average). The temperature in the United States in 2008 was not much different than the 1951-1980 mean, which makes 2008 cooler than all of the previous years this decade. Large areas of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean were cooler than the long-term average, linked to a La Niña episode that began in 2007.
The graph shows the long-term trend in surface temperatures since 1880. The annual average temperatures are shown in light orange, and the jaggedness of the line indicates how much the average global surface temperature varies from year to year. Because climate is so variable form year to year, it can be easier to spot long-term trends through multi-year averages. The dark red line shows the five-year running average, which is an average of five years of annual temperatures centered on a given year. Even this five-year average shows that climate has ups and downs, but the long-term increase in global average surface temperatures is obvious. The gray “barbells” indicate the range of uncertainty. Not surprisingly, the uncertainty is larger for older measurements than for more recent ones.
In their report on 2008 temperature trends, the scientists at NASA GISS, led by James Hansen, attribute the relative coolness of 2008 to the persistent La Niña, which continued as of late 2008/early 2009. The summary also describes how the delay in the start of the next solar sunspot cycle, volcanic activity from Aleutian Island volcanoes (both Okmok and Kasatochi erupted in August), and emission rates of greenhouse gases could influence average global temperatures in the next few years.
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. (2008, December 16). Global Temperature Trends: 2008 Annual Summation. Accessed January 20, 2009.
National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center
gene and majel in space
μια καταπληκτικη αναρτηση απο την ΤΜΤ στο ιστολογιο
toomanytribbles: gene and majel in space
live long and prosper
toomanytribbles: gene and majel in space
travel1/28/09
The Universe, Yours to Discover
Το Παγκόσμιο Έτος Αστρονομίας 2009,
οργανώνεται με την συνεργασία,
διεθνούς κύρους αστρονομικών οργανισμών.
Ευρωπαικός Οργανισμός για την Αστρονομική Έρευνα στο Νότιο Ημισφαίριο (ESO)
Δικτυακός τόπος: http://www.eso.org/
Αμερικανική Αστρονομική Εταιρία (AAS)Δικτυακός τόπος: http://www.aas.org
Γαλλικό Ινστιτούτο Επιστημών του Σύμπαντος(L'Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers)Δικτυακός τόπος: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr
Αστρονομική Εταιρία ΚαναδάΔικτυακός τόπος: http://www.casca.ca/
Αστεροσκοπείο Leiden (Sterrewacht Leiden)Δικτυακός τόπος: http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/
NOVAΔικτυακός τόπος: http://www.astronomie.nl/
Βρετανικό Συμβούλιο Επιστήμης και Τεχνολογίας(Science & Technology Facilities Council)Δικτυακός τόπος: http://www.scitech.ac.uk/
Ελβετική Ακαδημία Επιστημών(Akademie der Naturwissenschaften)Δικτυακός τόπος: http://www.scnat.ch/
Εταιρία Λαικής Αστρονομίας (The Society for Popular Astronomy)Δικτυακός τόπος: http://www.popastro.com/home.htm
Εθνικό Συμβούλιο Έρευνας του Καναδά(National Research Council Canada)Δικτυακός τόπος: http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/main_e.html
1/25/09
1/23/09
1/16/09
top 5 bets for extraterrestrial life in the solar system
an informative post from TMT in the blog
toomanytribbles: top 5 bets for extraterrestrial life in the solar system
you must read it!
live long and prosper
toomanytribbles: top 5 bets for extraterrestrial life in the solar system
you must read it!
1/15/09
R.I.P. Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán Merino
died today; he was 88. (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009)
Montalbán had a career spanning decades and multiple notable roles. During the late 1970s, he was the spokesperson in automobile advertisements for the Chrysler Cordoba (in which he famously extols the "Corinthian leather" used for its interior).
From 1977 to 1984 he starred as Mr. Roarke in the television series Fantasy Island.
He also played the villainous Khan Noonien Singh in both the 1967 "Space Seed" episode of the first season of the original Star Trek series, and the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
He won an Emmy Award in 1978, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1993.
Up until his 80s, he continued to perform, often providing voices for animated films and commercials.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
live long and prosper
Montalbán had a career spanning decades and multiple notable roles. During the late 1970s, he was the spokesperson in automobile advertisements for the Chrysler Cordoba (in which he famously extols the "Corinthian leather" used for its interior).
From 1977 to 1984 he starred as Mr. Roarke in the television series Fantasy Island.
He also played the villainous Khan Noonien Singh in both the 1967 "Space Seed" episode of the first season of the original Star Trek series, and the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
He won an Emmy Award in 1978, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1993.
Up until his 80s, he continued to perform, often providing voices for animated films and commercials.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
"Ah, Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us 'revenge is a dish that is best served cold'? It is cold in space." -- Kahn
1/14/09
1/13/09
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