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Our #Ax1 crew is now seated in the Dragon spacecraft and will begin pre-launch checklists.    ✔️comms check  ✔️seats rotated   ✔️suit leak checks   NEXT: side hatch for flight will close for flight = key visual milestone on the timeline to liftoff!
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This #EarthMonth, we're celebrating all of our planet's bustling #ecosystems... ⁣                                   🐬 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊     |     |     | 🐠     |     🐟🐳          ... from the land to the sea! Which one fascinates you most?
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We just cracked an egg in the Mediterranean Sea. 🍳 #AprilFools, it's a fried egg jellyfish (Phacellophora camtschatica)! This species doesn't contain any respiratory, circulatory, or excretory systems. Instead, it uses its large surface area to accomplish these things.
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A team of researchers find tall, curved posts protruding from the Arctic ice on remote Yttygran island, and upon further examination, they identify giant whale bones that seem to form a mysterious path 🐋🔍 #SecretsInTheIce starts right now on Science Channel.
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These #trees aren't painted, they're rainbow eucalyptus trees (Eucalyptus deglupta)! 🌈🌳 These fast-growing trees have a smooth, orange-tinted bark that sheds in strips to reveal streaks of pale green, red, orange, grey, and purplish brown.
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When a #hagfish feels threatened it may exude copious amounts of a milky, fibrous slime from around 100 glands on its vermiform body. This defense mechanism is known to clog the predator’s gills during an attack — forcing the predator to release in order to avoid suffocation. 🪱
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On a remote Siberian island known as Por-Bazhyn archeologists are using dated evidence from an ancient timber beam to uncover more information about the vision behind this mysterious fortress. 🔍 #SecretsInTheIce starts right now on Science Channel.
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In 1999, a pair of mountaineers hiking down Mount Cook in New Zealand discover intact skeletal remains that lead to the identification of not one - but two - people. 🪖 🧊 #SecretsInTheIce 🗓️ 9p ET on Science Channel
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The image is enhanced & involved masking, separately enhancing, & then reassembling water & land portions. The water patterns are the result of an RGB display of Landsat-8’s red, blue, & ultra-blue bands. The land is shown using short-wavelength-infrared, near-infrared & green.🌏
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This image, captured by the Landsat 8 satellite over Western Australia, shows rich sediment and nutrient patterns in a tropical estuary area and complex patterns and conditions in vegetated areas. Credit: / USGS Landsat; Geoscience Australia
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