A Fantastic Weather Graphic That Will Blow Your Mind

A friend sent me this link recently from the Capital Weather Gang. It is a time lapse movie of the northern hemisphere weather from August 1 to November 1. It shows how the atmosphere moves by imaging smoke from western fires in Montana and British Columbia (white), dust from the Sahara Desert (brown), and salt spray picked up from wind over the oceans (blue).


Wow!

The Piper Has Come for His Payment in Colorado City, AZ

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mormons-genes-idUSN0727298120070614.

Those Holding Strict Young Earth Creationist Views Slip to 30 Year Low Among Americans

http://www.gallup.com/poll/210956/belief-creationist-view-humans-new-low.aspx

Meet Southwest Photographer Jack Dykinga

A feature article in the Tucson Weekly about the famed Tucson photographer: https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/a-voice-in-the-wilderness/Content?oid=9969523.

I was a co-author on one of Dykinga's books about the Grand Canyon: https://www.amazon.com/Images-Jack-Dykingas-Grand-Canyon/dp/1932082875/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499088478&sr=1-7&keywords=jack+dykinga

http://www.shoparizonahighways.com/images-jack-dykingas-grand-canyon.

The USGS in Flagstaff

The USGS has put out a report describing its work at the Flagstaff Science Center: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/fs20173051.

The God Question

I worked on this production at Grand Canyon in 2009: http://www.thegodquestion.tv/explore.

The Seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico - As Never Been Seen Before

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/new-seafloor-map-gulf-of-mexico/

The Greenland Landslide and Tsunami of June 2017

https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2017/06/21/greenland-landslide-3/.

The Illegal and Dark Side of Mammoth Tusk Hunting in Siberia

You gotta see this: http://www.boredpanda.com/mammoth-tusk-hunting-russia/?page_numb=1&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=SAW

Fantastic Photos of Saturns Moons From the Cassini Spacecraft

Saturns icy moon, Mimas in an image taken on January 30, 2017

The Cassini spacecraft is nearing its death spiral into the Saturn atmosphere this September and so it is obtaining spectacular photos on its way in. Take a look at these images from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA Releases Video of Landing on Saturn's Moon - Titan

Cassini spacecraft prepares to release the Huygen's probe

Incredible as it may sound, humans have landed on the moon of another planet. As we continue to expand the reach of humanity, one has to be amazed at such feats of engineering and science. I have attached two videos in links here and here that tell the story.

Boulders of methane on Titan's surface

For those with more time to spare (one hour and eighteen minutes), here is a BBC documentary on the landing. Wow!