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2014-07-23

Imagens do Mundo - Rio Baitarani - Jajpur - India

Los aldeanos indios cruzan el río Baitarani durante las lluvias del monzón cerca Akhuapada en Jajpur distict del estado de Orissa, India. La estación de los monzones, que se extiende de junio a septiembre, trae lluvias que son vitales para la agricultura, pero también causan inundaciones y deslizamientos de tierra.

Foto - Passeando por Bordeaux - France - "Impasse Clémenceau"

"Impasse Clémenceau"

23-07-2014

JoanMira

2014-07-22

Fotografia - Lewis Hine - "Puto" de Paris em 1918

'Golfillo de París', ca. 1918. Colección George Eastman House, 2012.

Claude Debussy - "Clair de lune" - Video - Musique

"Clair de lune"

Picture - Cave with Aurora Skylight

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Cave with Aurora Skylight
Image Credit & Copyright: Ingólfur Bjargmundsson

Explanation: Yes, but have you ever seen aurora from a cave? To capture this fascinating juxtaposition between below and above, astrophotographer Bjargmundsson spent much of a night alone in the kilometer-long Raufarhólshellir lava cave in Iceland during late March. There, he took separate images of three parts of the cave using a strobe for illumination. He also took a deep image of the sky to capture faint aurora, and digitally combined the four images later. The 4600-year old lava tube has several skylights under which stone rubble and snow have accumulated. Oh -- the person standing on each mound -- it's the artist.

Explanation: What happened to half of Saturn? Nothing other than Earth's Moon getting in the way. As pictured above on the far right, Saturn is partly eclipsed by a dark edge of a Moon itself only partly illuminated by the Sun. This year the orbits of the Moon and Saturn have led to an unusually high number of alignments of the ringed giant behind Earth's largest satellite. Technically termed an occultation, the above image captured one such photogenic juxtaposition from Buenos Aires, Argentina that occurred early last week. Visible to the unaided eye but best viewed with binoculars, there are still four more eclipses of Saturn by our Moon left in 2014. The next one will be on August 4 and visible from Australia, while the one after will occur on August 31 and be visible from western Africa at night but simultaneously from much of eastern North America during the day.

2014-07-20

Playing For Change - "La bamba" - Video - Music - Around the World

"La bamba"

Imagens do Mundo - Pôr de sol em Washington

Un grupo de personas disfrutan de la puesta de sol en Bremerton, Washington (EE UU).