Archive for 2012
farmer herds goats near a Buddhist temple in Bagan, Myanmar (Burma).
(This photo was submitted to the 2012 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. Submit your best travel shot for a chance to win great prizes and be featured in an issue of National Geographic Traveler.)
Bagan, Myanmar :Burma
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(This photo was submitted to the 2012 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. Submit your best travel shot for a chance to win great prizes and be featured in an issue of National Geographic Traveler.)
The village of Gásadalur with the island of Mykines in the background. Until a tunnel was built in 2004, the 16 residents living in Gásadalur had to take a strenuous hike or horseback ride over the steep 1,300-foot (400-meter) mountain in order to make it to the other villages. It was a rare sunny day in the Faroe Islands and I had to wait until the clouds rolled in to provide some softer light. I decided to go with a long exposure (1 minute and 10 seconds) to illustrate the force of the wind and a serene sea among the isolated islands.
(This photo and caption were submitted to the 2012 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.)
Village, Faroe Islands
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(This photo and caption were submitted to the 2012 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.)
Beauty bird
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Life in color
Red, the color of human blood, symbolizes passion, fire, love, and anger. In Eastern cultures, it also connotes luck and prosperity. Red occurs throughout nature, from dying stars to dying leaves, and humans have evoked its powers for everything from politics to sports.Here, a brilliant red sea fan coral spreads behind a golden damselfish in waters off Fiji’s Namenalala Island
Golden Damselfish
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Life in colour
Red, the color of human blood, symbolizes passion, fire, love, and anger. In Eastern cultures, it also connotes luck and prosperity. Red occurs throughout nature, from dying stars to dying leaves, and humans have evoked its powers for everything from politics to sports.
Here, a brilliant red sea fan coral spreads behind a golden damselfish in waters off Fiji’s Namenalala Island
The seething turmoil in our sun's atmosphere is captured in extreme ultraviolet light by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched in 2010 to better understand solar activity and its impact on Earth. In this colorized view (NASA color-codes SDO images to represent different wavelengths of light), bright coronal loops arc between regions of intense magnetic activity, while cooler, darker filaments hang suspended in the sun's magnetic field.Photograph by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
Sun Struck
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space
The seething turmoil in our sun's atmosphere is captured in extreme ultraviolet light by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched in 2010 to better understand solar activity and its impact on Earth. In this colorized view (NASA color-codes SDO images to represent different wavelengths of light), bright coronal loops arc between regions of intense magnetic activity, while cooler, darker filaments hang suspended in the sun's magnetic field.
Photograph by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
Captured from about 400 miles (630 kilometers) above Earth by Japan's Hinode satellite, the moon moves into position for the May 20-21 annular solar eclipse.Before the eclipse, astronomer Anthony Cook, of the Griffith Observatory in California, had predicted that scientists would make use of the event to study the sun's activity. Hinode's handlers also used the eclipse to gather data to improve the craft's ability to image subtle features in the sun's corona, or upper atmosphere, according to NASA
Fiery Crescent
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space
Captured from about 400 miles (630 kilometers) above Earth by Japan's Hinode satellite, the moon moves into position for the May 20-21 annular solar eclipse.
Before the eclipse, astronomer Anthony Cook, of the Griffith Observatory in California, had predicted that scientists would make use of the event to study the sun's activity. Hinode's handlers also used the eclipse to gather data to improve the craft's ability to image subtle features in the sun's corona, or upper atmosphere, according to NASA
Seen from one of Japan's MTSAT meteorological satellites, the shadow of the moon darkens part of the North Pacific during the annular solar eclipse last Sunday and Monday. Despite the diminutive shadow shown, the moon is actually a little bigger than a quarter the size of Earth.An annular eclipse happens when the moon lines up between Earth and the sun, and when the dark moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the visible disk of the sun, leaving a ring—or annulus—of fiery light around the edges.
Following a Moon Shadow
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space
Seen from one of Japan's MTSAT meteorological satellites, the shadow of the moon darkens part of the North Pacific during the annular solar eclipse last Sunday and Monday. Despite the diminutive shadow shown, the moon is actually a little bigger than a quarter the size of Earth.
An annular eclipse happens when the moon lines up between Earth and the sun, and when the dark moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the visible disk of the sun, leaving a ring—or annulus—of fiery light around the edges.