Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Sation.
A Superman-esque view of the planet (awesome timelapse of flying over Earth via VideoSift).
Beautiful time laps of the earth from space.
(Source: youtube.com)
Wim Mertens - Live in Granada. What an inspirational artist with a huge back-catalogue. Highly recommended.
Life is so good at the moment and this is the perfect soundtrack for it.
Someone sent me photographs of icebergs with peculiar shapes and stripes and I started to investigate what the cause was. According to the Australian Antarctic Divison writes:
“Icebergs are formed from the glacial ice that has built up from snow falling on the Antarctic continent over millennia. This ice consists of pure fresh water. The ice flows slowly to the coast and breaks off either from glaciers or from ice shelves. Because the ice shelves are very thick and are floating, the seawater beneath them interacts with the glacial ice. As seawater is drawn deep under the ice shelves by the oceanic currents, it becomes supercooled. Under certain conditions it can freeze to the base of the ice shelf. Because this ice is formed from seawater, it differs from the freshwater ice of the ice shelf. Often, the frozen seawater contains organic matter and minerals, causing it to have a different colour and texture. Thus icebergs broken off from the ice shelves may show layers of the pure blue-white glacial ice and greener ice formed from frozen seawater. As the bergs become fragmented and sculpted by the wind and waves, the different coloured layers can develop striking patterns.”
