Just imagine, a bike that could take you into another world. When I saw this wonderful photo prompt from Angela at ‘Visual Dare’ that was my first thought.
Let me know what you think ! 🙂
Another World
~Watery Paradise ~
Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia.
Plitvice Lakes National Park is in the Lika region of Croatia and lies in a plateau surrounded by three mountains, not far from the border with Bosnia.
The park is criss-crossed by a series of paths and trails that allow visitors to explore the area and observe the flora and fauna. Although the park is best known for its lakes and waterfalls, it is home to a wide range of birds and animals.
Plitvice is the best known of the eight national parks of Croatia, a country where around ten per cent of the area enjoys some kind of protected status.
The park is a watery paradise in all different shades of blue, green and grey; the light and shadow on the moving waters cause the colours to change constantly.
Visitors explore the park on foot, following marked trails and wooden bridges.Some of the rivers in the park can also be travelled in boats.With its variation in altitude, climate and soil types, the park offers a wide range of habitats for different species of wildlife.
There are 16 lakes in the Plitvice Park, linked together by rivers and around 100 waterfalls .
Leap for Mankind
43 years ago, We first walked on the moon
On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon. Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon and as soon as he took his first step, he famously said:
‘One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’.
This moment was watched by half a billion people and was one of the most significant space missions. The astronauts spent over 21 hours on the moon before embarking on their journey back home. Launched by a Saturn V rocket, Apollo 11 was the fifth manned mission of NASA’s Apollo program. It’s been almost 40 years since another human stepped on the moon again. Here are some awesome photos from man’s first journey to the moon:
The Outside view *
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- NASA handout image dated February 2011 shows a swirling landscape of stars known as the North America Nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this image infrared view from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears.
- The reason you don’t see it in Spitzer’s view has to do, in part, with the fact that infrared light can penetrate dust whereas visible light cannot. Dusty, dark clouds in the visible image become transparent in Spitzer’s view.
- In addition, Spitzer’s infrared detectors pick up the glow of dusty cocoons enveloping baby stars. Clusters of young stars (about one million years old) can be found throughout the image. Some areas of this nebula are still very thick with dust and appear dark even in Spitzer’s view. The Spitzer image contains data from both its infrared array camera and multi-band imaging photometer. Light with a wavelength of 3.6 microns has been color-coded blue; 4.5-micron light is blue-green; 5.8-micron and 8.0-micron light are green; and 24-micron light is red.
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- This infrared image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) showcases the Tadpole Nebula, a star-forming hub in the Auriga constellation about 12,000 light-years from Earth.
- As WISE scanned the sky, capturing this mosaic of stitched-together frames, it caught an asteroid in our solar system passing by. The asteroid, called 1719 Jens, left tracks across the image. A second asteroid was also observed cruising by.
Dawn to Dusk 