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Quick evening #QGIS doodle.

ramp_color(
'Spectral',
scale_linear(
-- distance from geom to mouse pointer
value:=distance(
centroid($geometry),
@canvas_cursor_point
),
-- vs max distance possible in extent
domain_min:=0,
domain_max:=sqrt(
@map_extent_height * @map_extent_height
+
@map_extent_width * @map_extent_width
) / 2,
-- to 0-1
range_min:=0,
range_max:=1
)
)

In 2019 I spent a month in SE Asia, during which I spent a week in Vietnam, at Cuc Phuong National Park to be exact. We were hiking a trail up in the hills one night when one of my friends spotted this Mossy Frog (Theloderma corticale) in a small tree, one of those species you hope to see but don’t harbor any expectations. It turned out to be one of five species of anurans encountered in maybe a ten meter stretch of trail. An unforgettable experience. #frogs #amphibians #herps #herpetology

A rover, a helicopter, and a rocket land on Mars. That’s it. That’s the post. 🤪
Coming to a mission soon! (ish)
#MarsSampleReturn #Mars #NASA #JPL #Rover #Heli #MAV #SRH

An alien battleship in another world.

That's not too far from reality: an alien (to Mars) spaceship dropping "wheels on the ground", then moving out, and dying.

The Sky Crane after delivering #Perseverance to the Martian ground. Umbilical cut.

De-bayered, processed EDL_RUCAM
RMC: 0.0000 (prelanding, corrected)
Sol: 293, LMST: 11:01:34
Original: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#LandingOnMars #Perseverance #Mars2020 #solarocks #space

I made a timelapse of the Artemis 1 Orion approach end reentry after its return from the moon last week.
The views from the GoPro cameras on the Solar Arrays and inside the capsule were just spectacular!
youtu.be/EWuEXxNpfbY
#Artemis1 #Orion #Moon #NASA

Aye I suppose having the name of my favourite Carboniferous shark tattooed on my knuckles is super offensive and thuggish right enough 🙃

It's always interesting to see a past #landscape through the eyes of the people who inhabited it. This beautifully drawn and painted #map shows the #bridges, #weirs and #watermills across the river #Trent between Nottingham and Newark in the early 16thC in such loving detail that one can almost imagine standing on each site with the cartographer as he sketches.

The (enlargeable) map is online at bl.uk/collection-items/map-of-

This year in Cambridge (UK) the Winter was nice. It was last Thursday.

Hope our friends in Trondheim are doing OK.
Video from earth.nullschool.net/#current/

Cydonia Colles - False Color

This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a small section of Cydonia Colles, a group of hills located in southeastern Acidalia Planitia.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Instrument: Thermal Emission Imaging System
Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey
Tags: Mars
More: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cata
#space #NASA #JPL #photography #astronomy #astrodon

A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as E/V Nautilus encounters the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.

Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=9D0eyl7-XQ

#ocean #nature #science

The Bay of Somme is an iconic estuary in #Picardie, #France 🇫🇷

It is a @RamsarConv site and a #Natura2000 site 🦭🦆🌾

⬇️ Data visualisation based on the #N2K product of @CopernicusLand

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/

This always pops up this time of year, and it never fails to make me smile.

The map of Scotland’s Gritter lorries.

This was the local telephone exchange, employing hundreds of people, until it was replaced by equipment you could fit in a wardrobe. Seriously. Early ‘70s. #brutalist #brutalism #architecture

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