July 18, 2009 @ 8:42 pm
This is the first time I’m seeing a black and white image of the Earth taken from Apollo 11 and I think it is my new favorite photo of home. Does anybody know the NASA image ID to this particular image? I’m having a hard time finding it in full-res (although The Big Picture has a slightly larger version on display).
July 16, 2009 @ 7:58 am
This video is computer-generated and it shows a clear representation of what you would have seen if you had watched the Russians drop the “Tsar Bomba” onto the earth in 1961. The Tsar Bomba is the largest and most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. [via]
April 22, 2009 @ 2:35 pm
It’s Earth Day today (didn’t you see the Google logo?), so enjoy NASA’s HD video of views of our beautiful planet from the International Space Station. According to NASA, the ISS travels at an approximate speed of 17,500 miles per hour, orbiting Earth every 90 minutes from an altitude of approximately 220 miles. Also interesting to note is that the ISS is big enough to see from Earth with the naked eye.
January 13, 2009 @ 8:11 pm
This upcoming Earth Day, DisneyNature is releasing a film in conjunction with BBC, Greenlight Media, and Discovery Channel about three animal families — elephant, whale, and polar bear — on their year-long journey on planet earth. The trailer for the film looks really captivating and impressive and I’m super psyched for this movie to come out! In a way, it’ll be like a compressed version of BBC’s Planet Earth.
Oddly enough, there is no IMDB information on Earth, but if you must know, the film is coming out on April 22nd! THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OUT THIS YEAR. I ALREADY KNOW IT!
January 1, 2009 @ 11:40 pm
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Astronomy Picture of the Day posted this fantastic time-lapse video of over 7000 images that collectively make up the sky in motion. It’s absolutely beautiful from start to finish and I recommend that everyone take some time out to view this 4-minute view of nature at its finest.
December 11, 2008 @ 5:15 pm
Just like in a leap year when an extra day is added to the end of February, a leap second’s purpose is to readjust atomic clocks to the gradual decrease in rotation of the Earth. This year, on December 31, 2008 at 6:59PM EST, the official clocks of the world will add an extra second to accommodate the time, thus making the clock display 6:59:60PM EST (the clock will show 23h 59m 60s in Coordinated Universal Time at this time).
Well, now you know!
