Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 August 8 - Curiosity's View

Curiosity's View 
Image Credit: Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS

Explanation: By planet Earth's calendar, the Curiosity Mars Rover reached its 3rd anniversary on the surface of the Red Planet on August 6. To celebrate, gaze across this dramatic panoramic view of diverse terrain typical of therover's journey to the layered slopes of Aeolis Mons, also known as Mount Sharp. Recorded with Curiosity's Mast Camera instrument, the scene looks south across gravel, sand ripples, and boulders toward rounded buttes. In the background, higher layers at left are toward the southeast, with southwest at panorama right. The individual images composing the view were taken on Curiosity's mission sols (martian days) 952 and 953 since the rover's landing on August 6, 2012.

Now, it's time to say goobye - 07-08-2015, Ciao, ciao, ciao...

RAQUEL  WELCH

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Fotografia - Lisboa antiga - Estadio da Luz - 1954

ESTADIO DA LUZ - 1954

Imagens do Mundo - Interior da Basílica de Santa Maria, en Cracovia. Polonia

Interior da Basílica de Santa Maria, en Cracovia.

Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 August 7 - Full Moon, Full Earth

Full Moon, Full Earth 
Image Credit: NASA, NOAA/DSCOVR

Explanation: The Moon was new on July 16. Its familiar nearside facing the surface of planet Earth was in shadow. But on that date a million miles away, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured this view of an apparently Full Moon crossing in front of a Full Earth. In fact, seen from the spacecraft's position beyond the Moon's orbit and between Earth and Sun, the fully illuminated lunar hemisphere is the less familiar farside. Only known since the dawn of the space age, the farside is mostly devoid of dark lunar maria that sprawl across the Moon's perpetual Earth-facing hemisphere. Only the small dark spot of the farside's Mare Moscoviense (Sea of Moscow) is clear, at the upper left. Planet Earth's north pole is near 11 o'clock, with the North America visited by Hurricane Dolores near center. Slight color shifts are visible around the lunar edge, an artifact of the Moon's motion through the field caused by combining the camera's separate exposures taken in quick succession through different color filters. While monitoring the Earth and solar wind for space weather forcasts, about twice a year DSCOVR can capture similar images of Moon and Earth together as its crosses the orbital plane of the Moon.

Now, it's time to say goodbye. Ciao, ciao, ciao...

FELICIA ATKINS

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Fotografia - Hiroshima ha 70 anos

Faz hoje 70 anos sobre a explosão da bomba atomica sobre a cidade japonesa de Hiroshima, no dia 6 de agosto de 1945. A fotografia, feita a cerca de 10 km do epicentro da explosão, foi encontrada no meio de documentos relacionados com o assunto e sua autoria é desconhecida.

Victor Jara - "Manifiesto (homenaje al presidente Salvador Allende" - Audio - Musica

"Manifiesto (homenaje al presidente Salvador Allende"

Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (San Ignacio, région du Biobío, 28 septembre 1932 - Santiago, 16 septembre 1973) était un chanteur auteur-compositeur-interprète populaire chilien.

Membre du Parti communiste chilien, il fut l'un des principaux soutiens de l'Unité Populaire et du président Salvador Allende. Ses chansons critiquent la bourgeoisie chilienne (Las casitas del barrio alto, Ni chicha ni Limoná), contestent la guerre du Viêt Nam (El derecho de vivir en paz), rendent hommage aux grandes figures révolutionnaires latino-américaines (Corrido de Pancho Villa, Camilo Torres, Zamba del Che), mais aussi au peuple et à l'amour (Vientos del pueblo, Te recuerdo Amanda).

Arrêté par les militaires lors du coup d'État du 11 septembre 1973, il est emprisonné et torturé à l'Estadio Chile (qui se nomme aujourd'huiEstadio Víctor Jara) puis à l'Estadio Nacional avec de nombreuses autres victimes de la répression qui s'abat alors sur Santiago. Il y écrit le poème Estadio Chile (aussi connu comme la chanson-titre Canto qué mal me sabes) qui dénonce le fascisme et la dictature. Ce poème est resté inachevé car Víctor Jara est rapidement mis à l'écart des autres prisonniers. Il est assassiné le 15 septembre après avoir eu les doigts coupés par une hache1.

Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 August 6 - Stereo Pluto

Stereo Pluto 
Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins University/APL,
Southwest Research Institute - Stereo Assembly: Brian May

Explanation: These two detailed, true color images of Pluto were captured during the historic New Horizons flyby last month. With slightly different perspectives on the now recognizeable surface features they are presented in this first high quality stereo pair intended for viewing by denizens of planet Earth. The left hand image (left eye) is a mosaic recorded when the spacecraft was about 450,000 kilometers from Pluto. The right single image was acquired earlier, a last full look before the spacecraft's closest approach. Despite a difference in resolution, the pair combine for a stunning 3D perception of the distant, underworldly terrain.

Now, it's time to say goodbye. Ciao!

Jane Russell

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