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There’s been a lot of buzz lately over the fact that Google is partnering with the Public Laboratory for Open Science and Technology (Plots) to publish the imagery generated by balloon mapping.
Whatever you may think of Google as a mega-corporation, this is actually pretty cool and worth being excited about. For one thing, there is now a clear workflow process from data capture–processing–publication, which can be realised via balloon mapping–mapknitter.org–Google. (Of course Google is not the only outlet but it is a big one).
The advantage for Google users is that balloon mapping is often more detailed, is public domain, and can have better colors. Here’s an image I captured last Saturday for example from the balloon at fairly low altitude on a cloudy/drizzly day:
On the Google blog:
We’ve imported many of the images from the Public Laboratory’s archives into Google Earth’s historical imagery database. To help you…
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Spiral Lava Flow On Mars!!
High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars show coiling spiral patterns resembling snail or nautilus shells. The discovery, made by Arizona State University graduate student Andrew Ryan, was published in a paper published April 27, 2012, in the scientific journal Science.The new discovery is the reesult of of research into possible interactions of lava flows and floods of water in the Elysium volcanic province of Mars.On Earth, lava coils are found on the Big Island of Hawaii, mainly on the surface of ropey pahoehoe lava flows. They have also been seen in submarine lava flows near the Galapagos Rift on the Pacific Ocean floor.
In the past, a few scientists have argued that the plates in Elysium are underlain by water ice.
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