This snail was crawling across the railing of our balcony at daybreak in Da Nang City, Vietnam. Alternate title - Rise and Slime :)
Nikon D7500, Nikkor 18-300, ISO 100, f/8.0, 240mm, 1/160s
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A gantlet of tests prepared the spacecraft for its challenging trip to the Jupiter system, where it will explore the icy moon Europa and its subsurface ocean.
In less than six months, NASA is set to launch Europa Clipper on a 1.6-billion-mile (2.6-billion-kilometer) voyage to Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa. From the wild vibrations of the rocket ride to the intense heat and cold of space to the punishing radiation of Jupiter, it will be a journey of extremes. The spacecraft was recently put through a series of hard-core tests at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to ensure it’s up to the challenge.
Called environmental testing, the battery of trials simulates the environment that the spacecraft will face, subjecting it to shaking, chilling, airlessness, electromagnetic fields, and more.
In this image, Europa Clipper is seen in the 25-Foot Space Simulator at JPL in February, before the start of thermal vacuum testing. A battery of tests ensures that the NASA spacecraft can withstand the extreme hot, cold, and airless environment of space.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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New little leaves on my Barberry are a source of energy and excitement for me as they announce the arrival of spring.
"Anyone can love a rose,
But it takes a lot to love a leaf.
It's ordinary to love the beautiful,
But it's beautiful to love the ordinary." ~ M.J. Korvan
Tags: Chartreuse spring leaves leaves Barberry chartreuse leaves garden nature spring Pacific Northwest Washington state Olympic Peninsula Sequim Net@Art-ll Award Tree
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Éamon de Valera conversing with an unidentified woman and including four additional unidentified males, a photo from the Éamon de Valera collection. After all these years you know that our least favoured word is UNIDENTIFIED (followed closely by the ubiquitous UNKNOWN) We struggle each day to delete the UN. Although I think the UN might serve as a cryptic clue here?
Photographers: Photo-Métropole
Collection: Éamon de Valera Photographic Collection
Date: ca. 1936
NLI Ref: NPA DEV21
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags: National Library of Ireland Ireland B&W Éamon de Valera Photographic Collection Éamon de Valera July 1936 1930s Twentieth Century Geneva League of Nations Switzerland
Au jardin .
Tags: Fleurs Anémones Muscaris Bokeh
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