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Annular Eclipse over the North Pacific

May 23, 2012 by Steve Mentz Leave a Comment

 

…little time for blogging just now, but this is a great view of the eclipse that we East-coasters couldn’t see last Sunday.

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Ice Flows off Kamchatka

April 11, 2012 by Steve Mentz Leave a Comment

Pretty gorgeous shapes caused by off-shore ice flows.  Makes me think of the article in yesterday’s Times about the theory that unusual tidal flows put that iceberg in front of the big ship in 1912.

 

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Perpetual Ocean

March 28, 2012 by Steve Mentz Leave a Comment

Some images from “Perpetual Ocean,” a fantastic video of ocean currents in circulation.

The Gulf Stream

 

 

Aguilas Current.

Kuroshio current.

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Ice in the Bering Sea

March 21, 2012 by Steve Mentz Leave a Comment

Bering Sea Teeming with IceThe latest from NASA’s Earth Observatory.  Apparently, the larger than usual ice cover — this image was taken March 19 — has been caused by northerly winds more than lower temperatures.  In the rest of the Arctic ice cap, especially on the Atlantic side, sea ice has been thinner than usual.

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Blue Planet

January 25, 2012 by Steve Mentz Leave a Comment

The latest image from NASA.

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Cloud Streets in the Bering Sea

January 18, 2012 by Steve Mentz Leave a Comment

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Andreas Gursky’s Ocean

January 4, 2012 by Steve Mentz Leave a Comment

A photo exhibition in display now in Berlin.

The work apparently originates from Gursky being struck by the pictorial quality of the back-of-seat display as it showed the wide expanse of water that he was flying 35,000ft above (with the Horn of Africa to the far left of the screen, a tip of Australia to the right).

 

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Iberia by Night

December 28, 2011 by Steve Mentz Leave a Comment

From the International Space Station

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Sand Sea

December 20, 2011 by Steve Mentz Leave a Comment

 

 

 

 

 

 

In southwestern Libya, near the borders of Algeria and Niger, lies a sand sea known as Idhan Murzuq (also Sahra Marzuq) that rarely receives water from either sky or land. The extreme desert’s complex dunes are shaped by dry winds. But extending from the northeast quarter, a corridor of sand lines what used to be a river channel: Wadi Barjuj.

— from NASA’s Earth Observatory

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Clouds over the North Sea

November 30, 2011 by Steve Mentz Leave a Comment

“If air were visible, it would be a thing of mesmerizing beauty and motion.”  So says NASA.

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Steve Mentz
Professor of English
St. John’s University
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