Ag Terrane @agterrane@qoto.org

I am looking for all my #science #journalism peeps and scientists to follow! Please speak up if you are a #sciencejournalist or a scientist who doesn't mind talking to journalists! #noxp

Winter solstice at Newgrange, Ireland. Dating from c. 3,200 BC, its central passage is illuminated by sunlight on the morning of the the shortest day of the year. Light pierces the world of darkness, prefiguring the return of life in spring. #WinterSolstice

📷Ken Williams

And the corresponding map view.

High-precision relocations of M≥2 1982 to 2021/12 done with NLL-SSST-coherence (https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB023190), past year done with NLL-SSST.

Earthquake arrival data from service.ncedc.org/fdsnws

Fragment of the verdict:

"The listed violent crimes committed by named defendants, who all took smaller or larger part in the mass murder of prisoners, also reveal that the accused were involved in the acts of killing for pleasure, and not pursuant to orders of their superiors.

If it were not for their expressed desire to kill, they would have otherwise displayed elements of sympathy for the victims, or at least show indifference to their plight, but not torture them to death."

22 December 1947 | The Polish Supreme National Tribunal gave the verdict in the so-called First Auschwitz Trial of 40 former SS members of the German Auschwitz camp garrison: 23 death sentences & 16 imprisonments. One person was acquitted.

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Learn about the SS garrison members at Auschwitz:

🔹 online lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2021-zaloga-en/

🔹 podcast: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-20-SS-garrison-in-the-Auschwitz-camp-e1il8bt

#Auschwitz #justice #trial #SS #Nazis #Poland #perpetrators #people #Holocaust #crimes #genocide #otd #history @histodons

FGM-148 Javelin

22 December 1913 | A Polish woman, Jadwiga Apostoł, was born in Nowy Targ. At the beginning of 1942 arrested for her resistance activity.

In Auschwitz from 1 December 1942
No. 26273

On 18 January 1945 she was taken on a Death March to Malchow, a sub-camp of Ravensbrück. She later escaped from another evacuation transport. She survived.

More about her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadwiga_Aposto%C5%82

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #history #woman #NowyTarg #otd #facts #resistance

Using NASA #satellites that track changes in Earth’s #gravity field scientists discovered that the pace of #groundwater depletion in the Central Valley has accelerated dramatically during the drought & now threatens to devastate underground water reserves. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-12-22/groundwater-depletion-is-accelerating-in-the-central-valley

With the holidays upon us, ‘tis the season to share a reminder that all of Santa’s reindeer are female.

Males drop their antlers after the Autumn mating season. So since the world’s most celebrated reindeer are always depicted with spectacular antlers, we must assume that the intrepid team pulling the sleigh, presents & Ol’ St. Nicholas himself, is entirely female. #science

Finishing the year with some beautiful satellite imagery: three decades of spectacular subtidal dynamics at the southern tip of Moreton Island in south-east Queensland, driven by the slow drift of sand northward along Australia's east coast.

USGS/NASA #Landsat 5, 7 and 8 satellite data from the #DigitalEarthAU datacube

Happy winter solstice to all who celebrate it. Wishing light and laughter and hopefully better times for all as the earth continues to spin into another year. 🌟

I took this photo a few days ago from the summit of Goatfell.

#Arran
#Goatfell
#WinterSolstice

The Perseverance Rover has dropped it's first sample tube.

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

#Mars #MarsPerseverance #Space #Science

Happy #WinterSolstice (northern hemisphere folks)!
❄️🌄☃️
Oh, the weather outside is frightful.
But the volcanoes are so delightful.
If there's no place to go...
Check the webcams for the snow, for the snow.

View from #MaunaKea to #MaunaLoa #Hawaii
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