Picture of the Day

[IrbiS]

Lagta nahi hay dil mera ujr'ray dayyar main..........

@HRK @Armstrong @Indus Falcon @S.U.R.B. @Shamain @SvenSvensonov @WAJsal @Akheilos @Transhumanist @levina @jamahir @Windjammer @Leader @Transhumanist @ghazi52 @MastanKhan @mughaljee ........that's all I can remember for now

 

[SvenSvensonov]

A herdsman riding a horse directs a large herd of cattle, sheep and goats as they migrate to the summer pasturing areas at a mountainous region in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, May 31, 2015.

Photo credit to China Daily

The Solar Impulse 2, a solar powered plane, is parked in an inflatable hangar after an unscheduled landing at Nagoya airport in Japan, June 3, 2015. The solar-powered plane attempting a round-the-world flight will cut short the seventh leg of its 35,000-km global (22,000-mile) journey, landing in Nagoya, western Japan, due to bad weather.

Photo credit to Thomas Peter

 

[MastanKhan]

Is That A Missile In Your Volvo Or....
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A man drove down Florida’s U.S. 1 with what looks like an Israeli-built Shafrir-2 air-to-air missile in the passenger seat of his Volvo convertible and nobody really seemed to care enough to call anyone. Oh, and it was the same day that the President was visiting nearby.

The missile mover in question is local business man Tom Madden. Madden is said to have acquired the missile from a widow whose husband supposedly won it decades ago at a Palm Beach auction to benefit the Israeli Defense Forces. Instead of calling a truck to cart it off, he thought he would have some fun and take it home in his drop-top C70 Volvo.

It is florida pappy----you can carry your weapon in public.

 

[Shamain]

It is florida pappy----you can carry your weapon in public.

No conceal and carry? Aur may nay apko how many languages thread may frenchon ki tareef karnay kay leay hee tau tag kiya tha. >_<

Lagta nahi hay dil mera ujr'ray dayyar main..........
View attachment 227307 @HRK @Armstrong @Indus Falcon @S.U.R.B. @Shamain @SvenSvensonov @WAJsal @Akheilos @Transhumanist @levina @jamahir @Windjammer @Leader @Transhumanist @ghazi52 @MastanKhan @mughaljee ........that's all I can remember for now

Irbis yeh kya kar diya :/

I thought its a frog, saara achee tarah say ghoor ghoor kay dekh liya may nay phir parha tau chipkali nikali, i cant look at lizards and insects, meri cheekhain nikalti hain. Feeling like screaming now...

 

[Dubious]

Epic Parenting! Teaching lil Man to not let his physical handicap be a handicap to his spirit and mind. LOVE this!

 

[SvenSvensonov]

Sciency pics

Earth’s cloudy nature is unmistakable in this global cloud fraction map, based on data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite. This version of the map shows an average of all of the satellite’s cloud observations between July 2002 and April 2015.

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft onboard launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, March 12, 2015, Florida.

Engineers across the country have been busy taking a closer look at NASA'S Orion spacecraft and the data it produced during its successful flight test.

 

[dexter]

 

[Shamain]

 

[SvenSvensonov]

When you need to test hardware designed to operate in the vast reaches of space, you start in a vacuum chamber. NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has many of them, but Vacuum Chamber 5 (VF-5) is special. Supporting the testing of electric propulsion and power systems, VF-5 has the highest pumping speed of any electric propulsion test facility in the world, which is important in maintaining a continuous space-like environment.

The cryogenic panels at the top and back of the chamber house a helium-cooled panel that reaches near absolute zero temperatures (about -440 degrees Fahrenheit). The extreme cold of this panel freezes any air left in the chamber and quickly freezes the thruster exhaust, allowing the chamber to maintain a high vacuum environment. The outer chevrons are cooled with liquid nitrogen to shield the cryogenic panels from the room temperature surfaces of the tank.

Image Credit: NASA

More here: Micro stories - small news bits too small to have their own thread | Page 18

 

[SvenSvensonov]

Solar-Array Deployment Test for InSight

Engineers and technicians at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, run a test of deploying the solar arrays on NASA's InSight lander in this April 30, 2015 image.

Photo credit to JPL/NASA

Mars Weather-Station Tools on Rover's Mast

The Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover includes temperature and humidity sensors mounted on the rover's mast. One of the REMS booms extends to the left from the mast in this view.

Photo credit to JPL/NASA

 

[Transhumanist]

Solar-Array Deployment Test for InSight

Engineers and technicians at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, run a test of deploying the solar arrays on NASA's InSight lander in this April 30, 2015 image.

Photo credit to JPL/NASA

Mars Weather-Station Tools on Rover's Mast

The Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover includes temperature and humidity sensors mounted on the rover's mast. One of the REMS booms extends to the left from the mast in this view.

Photo credit to JPL/NASA

Sven is this you:

 

[SvenSvensonov]

Sven is this you:

Unfortunately no, that wouldn't fly when I was in the Navy.

A worker is seen preparing the launch gantry to be rolled back from the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory onboard, at the Space Launch Complex 2.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

 

[Transhumanist]

Happy Sweden Day everybody - but mostly @SvenSvensonov !

The National Day of Sweden | sweden.se

 

[mughaljee]

 

[MastanKhan]