NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson trains underwater for a spacewalk at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Whitson is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in late 2016 as part of Expedition 50/51. via NASA http://ift.tt/1muWexu
Yes, I know. Two blogposts in one day. Unheard of, but today is turning into “Do all the updates” day, since my brain needs a break from editing. ( I have rewritten 10 000 words in the last 7 days. Woot!) This is a map over Dhurig during the Clan Wars that I made earlier […]
I have been playing around with Inkarnate which is a browser based RPG mapmaker, but it works fine for Fantasy books as well. I really like it, since it is easy to use, and the end result is pretty. This is map over Rhoswyr, the country were Frosthold and Forest of Shadows takes place. It is more […]
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of cloud streets and sea ice in the Sea of Okhotsk on Feb. 8, 2016. Cloud streets are long parallel bands of cumulus clouds that form when cold air blows over warmer waters and a warmer air layer rests over the […]
. The editing marathon meant I got 30 pages done, along with another 9 pages yesterday. Monday? Uh. Not so good, since I had a low grade fever. The good thing is that since I had had various signs of cold flaring up and subsiding since Thursday morning, I decided to take the whole week […]
STS-63 astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr., payload commander (right), and C. Michael Foale, mission specialist (left), are ready to exit space shuttle Discovery’s airlock for a spacewalk on Feb. 9, 1995. On this extravehicular activity (EVA), which lasted 4 hours and 38 minutes, Bernard Harris became the first African-American to walk in space. via NASA […]
On the evening of Feb. 7, 2016, Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly snapped this photo of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. from the International Space Station, writing, “Got to see the #SuperBowl in person after all! But at 17,500MPH, it didn’t last long. #YearInSpace” via NASA http://ift.tt/20Rhu07
This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a peculiar galaxy known as NGC 1487, lying about 30 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Eridanus. via NASA http://ift.tt/1nLNNyI
I am doing an editing marathon this weekend. The goal is to have revised at least 40 pages by Sunday. I have done 18 pages since yesterday, so it should be doable. If my brain doesn’t go on a strike, since it is unhappy right now. Well. It will just have to get used to […]
The nitrogen ice glaciers on Pluto appear to carry an intriguing cargo: numerous, isolated hills that may be fragments of water ice from Pluto’s surrounding uplands. These hills individually measure one to several miles or kilometers across, according to images and data from NASA’s New Horizons mission. via NASA http://ift.tt/1nPILSw