A few nice image upload images I found:
NASA Super-Tiger Balloon Shatters Flight Record
Image by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
Flying high over Antarctica, a NASA long duration balloon has broken the record for longest flight by a balloon of its size.
The record-breaking balloon, carrying the Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (Super-TIGER) experiment, has been afloat for 46 days and is on its third orbit around the South Pole.
"This is an outstanding achievement for NASA's Astrophysics balloon team," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Keeping these huge balloons aloft for such long periods lets us do forefront science that would be difficult to do otherwise."
Super-TIGER is flying a new instrument for measuring the rare heavy elements among the flux of high-energy cosmic rays bombarding the Earth from elsewhere in our Milky Way Galaxy. The information retrieved from this mission will be used to develop an understanding where these energetic atomic nuclei are produced and how they achieve their very high energies.
Super-TIGER launched Dec. 8, 2012, from the long duration balloon site near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. The massive 39-million cubic foot scientific balloon carries the 6,000 pound Super-TIGER payload -- equivalent to a large sports utility vehicle -- at a float altitude of 127,000 feet, more than four times the altitude of most commercial airliners. Size-wise, more than 200 blimps could fit inside the balloon.
To read more go to: 1.usa.gov/WqO6ei
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Sculpture on the beach
Image by Ed.ward
Actually it's made of rubbish found on the beach. Quite cool though.
Nikon F80
Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AF-D
Fuji Velvia 100F (expired)
Update
This image is now available as a wallpaper on blog.edsimpson.co.uk/walls/.
Daily App Experiment #160 "Crosswalk"
Image by docpop
Daily App Experiment #160 "Crosswalk" ran this photo through each of #Percolator's filters (while keeping the setting at "extra-fine"), then ran all those images in #Interlacer. That looked cool, but I wanted to foreground character to pop more, so brought the Interlaced image into #Juxtaposer and traced out the crossing gaurs from one if the darker Percolator sessions on top. #appsperiment #daily_appsperiment
