Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 2005
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June 1
A ghost town is a town that has been abandoned, usually because the economic activity that supported it has failed or because of natural or human-caused disasters. Ghost towns are almost stereotypically common in mining areas, particularly the western United States following the Gold rushes of the 19th century, but similar derelict mining camps can be found in Canada, Australia and elsewhere. Photo credit: Jon Sullivan, PDphoto.org |
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June 2
Photo credit: Sannse |
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June 3
The . These birds feed mainly by diving or dabbling. They eat aquatic plants, and typically upend for food more than most diving ducks. Photo credit: PDphoto |
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June 4
A Photo credit: David L. Green |
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June 5
The Photo credit: Nicéphore Niépce (1826) |
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June 6
Photo credit: NASA |
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June 7
A test firing of twin linear XRS-2200 Aerospike engines. The aerospike engine is a type of rocket engine that maintains its efficiency across a wide range of altitudes through the use of an aerospike nozzle. A standard rocket engine uses a bell shaped air pressure , which decreases as the rocket climbs. An aerospike uses the air flowing past the rocket to form half of a 'virtual bell' which automatically compensates for the reducing pressure.
Photo credit: NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center |
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June 8
The Photo credit: Chmouel Boudjnah |
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June 9
A rope trick is the whimsical term given by physicist Dr. John Malik to the curious lines and spikes which emanate from the fireball of a nuclear explosion just after detonation. The image is from the Tumbler-Snapper test series of 1952. The surface of the fireball is over 20,000 kelvins and emits huge amounts of visible light radiation. The 'rope tricks' which protrude from the bottom of the fireball are caused by the heating, rapid vaporization and then expansion of the mooring cables tethering the tower supporting the nuclear bomb at the start of the test. Photo credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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June 10
Women dressed as Photo credit: Michael Reeve |
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June 11
Photo credit: Erwin E. Smith (1909) |
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June 12
The . Image credit: Eric Pierce |
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June 13
Greencastle, Donegal is a commercial fishing port in County Donegal in the northwest of Ireland. The first proper pier was built in 1813 and has been added to several times since. Today, as well as being a tie up for trawlers and salmon boats, it is the home of the Greencastle Fishermen's Co-Op. This painting of the harbour, is by local artist Sheila McClean. Photo credit: Sean McClean |
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June 14
The Illustration credit: Eric Pierce |
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June 15
The In this photograph of the first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright is at the controls, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle that operated the wing warping mechanism. Wilbur Wright running alongside, has just released his hold to balance the machine. Photo credit: John T. Daniels (1903) |
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June 16
Photo credit: ChrisO |
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June 17
Photo credit: Fir0002 |
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June 18
Photo credit: Dynabee |
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June 19
Relief map showing the varying age of bedrock underlying North America. This cartographic tapestry is woven from a geologic time .
Image credit: USGS, GSC & MCRM |
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June 20
Photo credit: Uwe Kils |
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June 21
Albert Einstein was a German theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect and "for his services to Theoretical Physics". Photo credit: Yousuf Karsh |
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June 22
The Skyline Boulevard in the San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. As well as constituting one of the world's greatest metropolitan areas, the Bay Area includes some exceptional natural coastal and rural landscape. It includes significant national parks such as the Point Reyes National Seashore and a large number of state parks .
Photo credit: Jawed Karim |
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June 23
An arching fountain of Pahoehoe, approximately 10 m high, issuing from a spatter cone of Pu‘u Kahaualea, Hawaii. Lava, when first exuded from a volcanic vent, is a liquid at very high temperature: typically from 700°C to 1200°C. Although, the viscosity of lava is 100,000 times that of water, the viscous rock can flow many miles before eventually cooling and solidifying. Photo credit: J.D. Griggs, |
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June 24
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Photo credit: Daniel Keshet |
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June 25
The atmosphere of Jupiter as seen from Voyager 1, including the anticyclonic storm known as the Great Red Spot. Jupiter's atmosphere is composed of ~81% Neptune have much less hydrogen and helium.
The Earth's atmosphere is quite different, being primarily composed of nitrogen. Photo credit: Atmosphere of Jupiter |
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June 26
Photo credit: Denni Windrim |
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June 27
A piece of Aerogel holds 15 records for material properties, including best insulator and lowest-density solid. Aerogel can support 2000 times its own weight without collapsing.
Photo credit: NASA |
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June 28
The Photo credit: Michael Reeve |
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June 29
The Photo credit: Unknown |
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June 30
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