Great Pictures!

Here are some great pictures I have run across in my science travels. Enjoy! If you know of any science picture web pages not listed here, please drop me a note with their url, and I'll be happy to add a link to the page. Weather Switzerland ice storm, early 2006 "Storms of 2005" DVD A very good tornado chase video. From a review by Gilbert Sebenste: Each segment is introduced by a weather discussion showing relevant surface and upper air maps from the morning and late afternoon. Then, you are in the driver's seat with a professional storm chaser as your narrator and guide. No bad or family-unfriendly audio here, no tasteless, insensitive shots, no boring segments. Each one captures your interest from the beginning. And, despite the fact that the video was done by several video producers/storm chasers, each one maintains a high-quality production level with a consistent format, yet with enough leeway to break it when appropriate for special shots and/or graphics. Florida hurricane tracks - 2004 hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan source: Bob Morris NOAA Photo Library home page NOAA Photo Library Image Collections: photo albums or catalogs Salt Lake Valley Ice Fog/Frost/Rime Ice cloudscape postage stamps In 2004, on or about October 1, the US Postal Service will add to the repertoire of climate and weather-related stamps with the cloudscape issue. (info from Myron Molnau) twister of flame Ventura County firefighters look at a twister of flame from a wildfire, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2003, in Simi Valley, Calif. The fire has destroyed several homes and burned more than 45,000 acres. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) March 2003 Snowstorm in Colorado January 2003 Snowstorms in North Carolina ice flag Other Kansas City January 2002 ice storm pics: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/eax/IcePhotos1.htm http://www.crh.noaa.gov/eax/IcePhotos2.htm International Satellite Pictures: http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/ http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/ http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/east/ Project Atmosphere Australia Online (Really cool cloud pictures ... and more ... from Australia!) Astronomy Aurora Mega-Gallery: http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery.html This is a collection of every aurora photo ever published on SpaceWeather.com, combined into one "mega-gallery." There are spooky auroras, man-made auroras, auroras in Florida, auroras at the South Pole, auroras beneath the space shuttle -- thousands of photos. Together, they are a unique chronicle of space weather since the year 2000. North Pole picture of Sun and Moon on horizon NASA's HST: The Eye of God The Sky's the Limit: Grand Finale for Twin-Telescope Survey. The celestial harvest from astronomy's most thorough high-resolution digital survey of the entire sky, completed by twin infrared telescopes, is now online for scientists to scrutinize and the entire world to savor. An atlas of about 5 million pictures from the grand finale of this milestone in modern astronomy is available at http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/ The NASA Image Exchange web site is a one-stop source for any pictures taken on any NASA mission. If you want NASA imagery, here's the place to go! http://nix.nasa.gov/ A searchable database containing more than 35 years of astronaut photography http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop Hubble Space Telescope Pictures -- extensive archive http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html A Flash presentation with music of some of Hubble's most amazing pictures -- with descriptions of what you're looking at. Very impressive! http://wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.htm Astronomy Picture of the Day Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Space Station Science Picture of the Day Science officer Don Pettit and his Expedition 6 crewmates onboard the International Space Station have been sending us some extraordinary pictures. Some show breathtaking views of the sky through the station's windows. Others highlight ongoing scientific research in physics and biology. NASA wants to share these pictures with you, so they've developed a "Space Station Science Picture of the Day" web site. "Every weekday, Monday through Friday, we'll post a new and cool photo taken by someone on the ISS." http://science.nasa.gov/ppod/ From NASA: "This is an experimental service by Science@NASA. We plan to maintain it for the duration of ISS Expedition 6 (until early May). If you like it, we may be able to continue beyond that time, so let us know." International Space Station and Space Shuttle ISS-Space Shuttle Sightings October 16, 2002 July 24, 2002 Apollo Moon landing sites http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html Pictures taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, of the Apollo moon landing sites, showing "the Apollo missions' lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon's surface, as long shadows from a low sun angle make the modules' locations evident." Other Topics Parrot Flower - rare, from Thailand (pictures provided by Karen B.): (1, 2)

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