Enjoy this nice video clip of a cute swimming penguin. Note that this type of video is very hard to compress properly at lower bitrates because of all the motion in the water. I will upload some of my own flickr vid’s soonish!
The HRSC on ESA’s Mars Express obtained this perspective view on 2 February 2005 during orbit 1343 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 metres per pixel.
It shows an unnamed impact crater located on Vastitas Borealis, a broad plain that covers much of Mars’s far northern latitudes, at approximately 70.5° North and 103° East.
The crater is 35 kilometres wide and has a maximum depth of approximately 2 kilometres beneath the crater rim. The circular patch of bright material located at the centre of the crater is residual water ice.
The colours are very close to natural, but the vertical relief is exaggerated three times. The view is looking east.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
Dan writes “Wired has a great article about a guy who thinks we can provide unlimited energy, accelerate crop growth, desalinize and purify drinking water, obtain health benefits and provide air conditioning, all by pumping up water from the depths of the ocean.”
[/.] visination.com writes “Recent ground based observations of Mars have confirmed the presence of water and methane. The 300 year life time of methane on Mars is short, giving scientists reason to beleive that Mars may be biologically active.” From the article: “Every one of these longitudes shows a very substantial enhancement in the equatorial zone…So this is a very intense source of methane on Mars in this region. It also requires a very rapid decay of methane…more rapid than photochemistry would allow…”
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