As the World Turns...

Started by BridgeTroll, July 26, 2016, 07:49:14 AM

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BridgeTroll

July 26, 2016, 07:49:14 AM
Pretty cool video includes an eclipse from a million miles out...  8)

http://www.livescience.com/55532-watch-earth-spin-through-a-full-year-in-this-spectacular-time-lapse-video.html

https://www.youtube.com/v/CFrP6QfbC2g

QuoteThe time-lapse video of 3,000 images shows pictures taken every 2 hours. The pictures come courtesy of the EPIC camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. The satellite is located at a gravitationally stable spot in space between the Earth and the sun known as a Lagrange point.

"EPIC takes a new picture every 2 hours ... capturing the ever-changing motion of clouds and weather systems and the fixed features of Earth such as deserts, forests and the distinct blues of different seas," NASA Goddard officials wrote in the video's description...

In a boat at sea one of the men began to bore a hole in the bottom of the boat. On being remonstrating with, he answered, "I am only boring under my own seat." "Yes," said his companions, "but when the sea rushes in we shall all be drowned with you."
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