I was pretty oblivious to the absolute marvel of Cassini until I saw this curiously moving video. Its story and the astonishing images and data it recorded will splash your day full of wonder
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Pumpkin Stars!!! (Happy Halloween from Improvised Life)
What could be better to celebrate Halloween than with cosmic “pumpkin stars’ recently discovered by NASA? (Video link here)
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Survivalist’s Essential Tool (and Gift): Trees
In this astonishing simulation, Nasa tracks the flow of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide across the planet over the course of a year and shows just how much trees clean the air. It increased our awareness of how essential trees are, beyond their beauty, shade and energy. And what we can easily do to increase earth’s tree population.
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2 Minute Meditation: Breathing with the Earth
(Video link here.) We are stunned by this incredibly beautiful animation from NASA of the 12-month cycle of the Earth’s plant life, on land and in the ocean. As the year progresses, we see plant life following the increased sunlight northward or southward causing the Earth’s greening to move as though it were breathing…
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Start the Week Flying…Over a Moon for a Cosmic Perspective
(Video link here.) NASA recently released beautiful enhanced color images of Pluto‘s largest moon Charon taking during the New Horizon mission’s approach to the Pluto system last July. They used the images create this astonishing flyover video of Charon. It definitely gives us an expanded view…
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Space Launch Tonight + A Noguchi View from Space
In 1947, American Sculpture Isamu Noguchi designed but never executed a face formed by huge mounds of sand. It was meant to be a Sculpture to be Seen from Mars, visible only from outer space; the nose was to be projected one mile high. Had it been realized,
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