Showing posts with label Knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Knowledge. Show all posts
Romp Through a Pakistani Gun Market
In 2006, Suroosh Alvi was one of a handful of journalists who was able to get into the massive guns market in Pakistan’s tribal areas – home base for the Taliban since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. He returned to Pakistan in 2009 and found the entire country was a “powder keg ready to explode.”
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San Francisco Trolley Dash Cam Footage - 1909
Take a trip back in time on the San Francisco trolley, circa 1909.
First person footage from the trolley as it passes through the city.
Spectacular Film of Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch - Nov. 16, 2009
Atlantis was launched on 16 Nov 2009, at 14:28 EST and landed at 9:44 a.m. EST on 27 Nov 2009 at the Kennedy Space Center.
STS-129 focused on staging spare components outside the station. The 11-day flight included three spacewalks. The completion of this mission leaves five space shuttle flights remaining until More.. the end of the program.
Definition: STS Space Transportation System, the official name of NASA's Space Shuttle program
Solar Prominence Eruption - 30 hour sun storm
The twin STEREO spacecraft (called Behind and Ahead denoting their relative positions in space), now almost 120 degrees apart, captured this large and dramatic prominence eruption over about a 30-hour period between Sept. 26-27, 2009. Prominences, called filaments when they are viewed against the surface of the Sun, are clouds of cooler gas suspended above the Suns surface by magnetic forces. This More.. erupting prominence was large enough that both spacecraft were able to observe it for hours on end, one of the first times that has occurred.
From the Behind perspective (on left) the long filament, darker than the Suns surface, can be seen rising up and then breaking away, spreading out above most of the Suns surface. As seen from the Ahead spacecraft (right), the filament is seen in profile and is therefore called a prominence. The very large cloud lifts up, breaks away, and heads out into space. This is one of the most spectacular eruptive prominences either SOHO or STEREO have observed.
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