Hurricanes: The Sound and the Fury

It took Clifford Ross a few years of photographing hurricanes and being dissatisfied with the results before he realized that the central drama was in the ocean. And that if he wanted to capture it, he’d have to get in it. “There’s an apocryphal tale that Turner lashed himself to a ship’s mast” says Ross describing the 19th century painter’s desire to depict stormy seas.
The artist, a New York City native, first became interested in photographing hurricanes in the mid-’90s, he thought he’d be chasing them all over the world. Until he realized he could just stay put on Georgica Beach, a few miles from his Long Island home. “I sit like a fisherman and wait,” says Ross who lenses eight to 12 storms per year. He doesn’t use waterproof cameras, “I don’t want anything between me and the wave,” says Ross. Despite photographing in water anywhere from his ankles to his neck, “the camera and I have both survived,” says Ross. “Its like dancers who say they leave their body during a performance. I’m so riveted by what I see, and trying to stay upright, I don’t feel any fear.”

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Egyptian pyramids

There are 138 pyramids discovered in Egypt as of 2008.Most were built as tombs for the for the country's Pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. The Pyramid of Khufu at Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid. It is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence.

Jurassic Period

The Jurassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about 199.6± 0.6 Mya (million years ago) to 145.5± 4 Mya, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic Era, also known as the Age of Reptiles. The start of the period is marked by the major Triassic–Jurassic extinction event. However, the end of the Jurassic Period did not witness any major extinction event.

Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest, and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions. The other four are The Pacific Ocean,The Atlantic Ocean,The Indian Ocean and
The Southern Ocean.

Mount Everest

Upon seeing Mount Everest clearly for the first time in 1921 after weeks of travel, George Leigh Mallory wrote, "It was a prodigious white fang, an excrescence from the jaw of the world. We saw Mount Everest."

Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas on the Nepal side of Nepal-China (Tibet) border

Compelling New Evidence for Flowing Water on Mars

A combination image made with 3-D modeling illustrates possible evidence of liquid water active on Mars today.
NASA / JPL-Caltech / Uinversity of Arizona / Reuters

In a paper published this week in the journal Science and announced at a press conference at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, mission scientists revealed the appearance of seasonal streaks at key points on the Martian surface, looking for all the world like the tracks of water rivulets running down-slope, collecting at the base of the incline and then evaporating back into the atmosphere.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has been circling the Red Planet since 2006, have produced the first compelling evidence of flowing, salty water on the Martian surface. Water may mean biology — and biology, of course, would mean Martians.

NASA's Juno to circle Jupiter for 'planetary recipe'

An artist's rendition released by NASA shows the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter.
Now en route to Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has begun its five-year cruise to the giant planet.Juno is set for arrival at Jupiter in July 2016. The spacecraft will orbit the massive planet for about one year (33 orbits) and will end with de-orbit into the gaseous world.Juno roared off into Florida skies on Friday, August 5th.

Dolphins:amazing animals with problem-solving super powers!

Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises.Most dolphins have acute eyesight, both in and out of the water, and they can hear frequencies ten times or more above the upper limit of adult human hearing.Dolphins are often regarded as one of Earth's most intelligent animals.