Each spring and summer, as the air warms up and the sunlight beats down on the Greenland ice sheet, sapphire-colored ponds spring up like swimming pools. As snow and ice melt atop the glaciers, the water flows in channels and streams and collects in depressions on the surface that are sometimes visible from space. (via NASA - Greenland Melt Ponds)

Each spring and summer, as the air warms up and the sunlight beats down on the Greenland ice sheet, sapphire-colored ponds spring up like swimming pools. As snow and ice melt atop the glaciers, the water flows in channels and streams and collects in depressions on the surface that are sometimes visible from space. (via NASA - Greenland Melt Ponds)

  1. Date Posted Icon 25th March 2013
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    3. Tags Icon #nasa#greenland#spring#water#sapphire
(via Image of the Day)

(via Image of the Day)

  1. Date Posted Icon 13th March 2013
(via Bushveld Igneous Complex : Image of the Day) With uses ranging from jewelry to catalytic converters, platinum ranks among the most prized and most expensive metals. About 70 percent of the world’s platinum is mined in the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa—a geological formation roughly the same size as West Virginia. The Bushveld also supplies significant quantities of palladium, rhodium, chromium, and vanadium.

(via Bushveld Igneous Complex : Image of the Day)

With uses ranging from jewelry to catalytic converters, platinum ranks among the most prized and most expensive metals. About 70 percent of the world’s platinum is mined in the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa—a geological formation roughly the same size as West Virginia. The Bushveld also supplies significant quantities of palladium, rhodium, chromium, and vanadium.

  1. Date Posted Icon 27th February 2013
    2. Tags Icon #south africa#platinium#chromium#vanadium#colonization
Tristan da Cunha (via Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean : Image of the Day)

Tristan da Cunha (via Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean : Image of the Day)

  1. Date Posted Icon 27th February 2013
    2. Tags Icon #Tristan da Cunha#Atlantic
The Green of Central Maine : Image of the Day
  1. Date Posted Icon 16th February 2013
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(via A Satellite’s View of Ship Pollution : Image of the Day)

(via A Satellite’s View of Ship Pollution : Image of the Day)

  1. Date Posted Icon 16th February 2013
    2. Tags Icon #nasa#earth#pollution
(via Von Karman Vortices off Chile : Image of the Day)

(via Von Karman Vortices off Chile : Image of the Day)

  1. Date Posted Icon 7th February 2013
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    3. Tags Icon #nasa#earth#paisley
(via Our Reach Should Exceed Our Grasp : Image of the Day)

(via Our Reach Should Exceed Our Grasp : Image of the Day)

  1. Date Posted Icon 7th February 2013
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    3. Tags Icon #nasa#earth#moon
(via Sand and Tourism in Gran Canaria : Image of the Day)

(via Sand and Tourism in Gran Canaria : Image of the Day)

  1. Date Posted Icon 24th January 2013
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    3. Tags Icon #canary islands#nasa#archipelago
(via Polar Mesospheric Clouds, South Pacific Ocean : Image of the Day)

(via Polar Mesospheric Clouds, South Pacific Ocean : Image of the Day)

  1. Date Posted Icon 24th January 2013
    2. Tags Icon #nasa#mesosphere