EARTH DAY 2010....§
On April 22 was Earth Day, since 1970. It's been a day set aside
to remember and appreciate the Earth's environment,
and all of our roles within it. As a way to help appreciate and observe
our environment, I've collected 39 recent images here, each a glimpse
into some aspect of the world around us, how it affects and sustains us,
and how we affect it. Here's hoping everyone had a great Earth Day.
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The most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth created
to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists
and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land
surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic
of every square kilometer of our planet. Much of the information
contained in this image came from a single remote-sensing
device-NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer,
or MODIS. Flying over 700 km above the Earth onboard the Terra satellite.
In this aerial photo taken Wednesday, April 21, 2010
in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice
on Louisiana's tip, rising smoke and an oil slick are seen as the
firefighting boats attend to the burning Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
A poison dart frog of the dendrobates genus clings
to a leaf at the Botanic Gardens in Medellin April 22, 2010.
An explosion, part of mining technology, takes place at
Olimpiadinskoye gold mine, 660 km (410 mi) north east
of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, April 13, 2010.
Windmills turn in the breeze at Horns Rev 2, the world's largest
wind farm, 30 km (19 mi) off the west coast of Denmark
near Esbjerg September 15, 2009.
A visitor takes photographs of cherry blossoms at the Royal
Botanic Gardens in Kew, west London April 15, 2009.
The eye and skin of a circus elephant, seen in the sun
in Berlin, Germany on Wednesday, April 7, 2010.
An armored vehicle from the Centurion Company, 2-1 Infantry Battalion,
5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team is framed by a bolt of lightning
during a storm at Combat Outpost Terminator in Maiwand District,
Kandahar Province, Afghanistan on April 19, 2010.
Skeletal remains of cattle lie on the shore of the Grijalva river
in Villahermosa April 20, 2010. According to Mexico's National Committee
for Protected Areas (CONANP), 12 tons of garbage are illegally dumped
daily at the Canyon del Sumidero where the river runs through.
A general view shows a "solucar" solar park
in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, Spain.
A worker unloads coal at a storage site along a railway
station in Shenyang, Liaoning province April 13, 2010.
A gray whale surfaces near the mouth of the Duwamish River
late Saturday March 27, 2010 in Seattle, Washington. The nearly
40 foot-long animal was watched by excited spectators as it hugged
the shore around the West Seattle peninsula earlier in the day.
Gray whales are not as common in Puget Sound as orca whales;
gray whales are rarely seen in Elliott Bay near downtown Seattle.
Maritime officials with the Port of Seattle were concerned the whale
would attempt to travel up the Duwamish River, a major
industrial area and Superfund site.
A worker walks past a wall made of recycled plastic bottles
at the Flora Expo construction site in Taipei, taiwan on April 13, 2010.
The world's first green building made of plastic bottles will be used
as one of the 14 exhibition halls at the 2010 Taipei International
Flora Expo, starting from November 6.
Hoover Dam, on the on the Colorado River, on the border
of Arizona and Nevada, seen from a DigitalGlobe satellite on
February 28, 2010. The energy generated by Hoover Dam annually
is about 4.2 billion kilowatt-hours. (DigitalGlobe)
Swans stretch and swim after being released from their winter
quarters on Hamburg's city lake Alster April 12, 2010. Every year
the swans are collected from waterways around Hamburg and taken
to winter quarters where they are fed and cared for until the spring.
A Union Pacific freight train passes between windmills on
January 17, 2010 near of Palm Springs, California.
The underside of space shuttle Discovery is visible in this
image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the
International Space Station soon after the shuttle and station began
their post-undocking relative separation on April 17th, 2010. The recognizable
feature on Earth below is the south end of Isla de Providencia,
about 150 miles off the coast of Nicaragua.
A mature bald eagle calls out to its mate Monday, April 12, 2010,
near the the confluence of the Tanana and Chena Rivers
outside of Fairbanks, Alaska.
Young Indian ragpickers search for valuables and recyclable
materials at the city's largest legal municipal waste landfill in Mavallipura
village on the outskirts of Bangalore on April 20, 2010.
A woman herds horses along a snow covered road in a valley
below Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano, near Evindarholar April 22, 2010.
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as seen from the International Space
Station on April 14th, 2010. The image spans just over 80 km (50 mi).
Mike Cianchette, operations manager of the Stetson Mountain wind
project, checks his safety line before making inspections on top of a
300-foot tall windmill, in Range 8, Township 3, Maine on July 14, 2009.
A larval tube-anemone fishes for food with the tentacles it will
use as an adult as seen in an undated handout photo released April 18, 2010.
The Northern Lights appear above the ash plume of Iceland's
Eyjafjallajokull volcano in the evening April 22, 2010.
A young male giraffe named Carlo takes his first walk around
an outdoor enclosure with his parents at the zoo in the southern
German city of Nuremberg on April 20, 2010.
A worker looks through a solar concentrator panel at the Gadhia
solar energy systems manufacturing unit at Gundlav village,
about 400 km (250 mi) south of the Ahmedabad,
India on December 16, 2009.
Health officials on a truck spray chemicals to disinfect animal
farms around the village where outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease
were reported in Gimpo, about 30 km (18 miles) northwest of
Seoul, South Korea on April 20, 2010.
High above the African continent, tall, dense cumulonimbus
clouds loom on April 22, 2010. The clouds can form alone, in clusters,
or along a cold front in a squall line. The high energy of these storms is
associated with heavy precipitation, lightning, high
wind speeds and tornadoes.
Kurniah collects rust from a beach at a ship demolition site,
near Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia on April 16, 2010.
Kurniah said she can earn approximately $2 after collecting about
100 kg (220 lbs) of rust a day. The rust is sold to a middleman who
will sell it to a factory that will recycle it.
A plastic bottle rests on cracked earth at Las Canoas Lake,
59 km (37 mi) north of the capital Managua, Nicaragua on
April 20, 2010. The water level of the lake has fallen to dangerously
low levels due to a severe drought.
The Sun appears slightly squished in this image of the Earth
eclipsing the Sun seen from NASA's recently-launched
Solar Dynamics Observatory in high orbit. An instrument on board,
the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, was undergoing a series
of adjustments when its view was partially blocked by the Earth.
At the edges of the shadow, the Sun's shape bends,
due to the light's refraction by the Earth's atmosphere.
A crowd watch as a baby hawksbill turtle swims into the
deep after a symbolic release ceremony on Pramuka Island
located north of Jakarta, Indonesia on April 20, 2010. Twenty baby
hawks bill turtles and four four months old hawksbill turtles
were released from the turtle conservation area.
A late afternoon rainbow appears briefly above
Port Susan near Stanwood, Washington on April 5, 2010.
A interior view of several large turbines at the construction
site of the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, Hubei province,
China on September 10, 2009.
Palestinian beekeepers inspect hives at an apiary near the
central Gaza Strip refugee camp of Bureij on April 19, 2010.
In this Friday night April 2, 2010 picture, people watch
the sunset from the edge of the frozen mudflats near Elderberry Park
in Anchorage, Alaska. The Mt. Spurr volcano is at right.
A man rows a boat down a flooded street in the village
of Radul, north of Kiev, Ukraine on April 19, 2010.
An aircraft passes the moon over Frankfurt, Germany on
Thursday, April 22, 2010, as German air traffic went back
to normality following the airspace closure due
to the volcanic ash cloud that came from Iceland.
A man takes a break on a sunny day on the grass of LaFayette Park
near the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 22, 2010.
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