#PPOD: ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this photo of a 13-kilometer (8-mile) wide impact crater in Chad from the International Space Station in 2020. Credit: ESA-A.Gerst
Inspire... Expire... Inspire... Expire... Un courant d’air sillonne tes formes imparfaites. Tu frissonnes. Aussi légères qu’un duvet de nuages, mes mains se mettent à leur tour à te parcourir et te font transpirer.
Nos sens s’éveillent. Nos esprits s’enlacent. Le temps cesse d’être un repère, remplacé par l’intensité du plaisir. Éruption.
Turquoise blue lake on the edge of a highland river
I had this lake on my wish list ever since I found it on google maps. Because of the color, I have to admit I really wanted to use the drone to capture it from an aerial perspective. The riverbed of the highland river in the foreground gives the picture even more depth. All the more reason to photograph from this direction.
The colors are typical for Iceland. Although not so often, because black and green usually predominate. But it was typically Icelandic — treeless! Brown soil, with erosion gullies cutting through different layers of earth give the motif something special. And then, in total color contrast to the brown, the turquoise of the lake surface.
Those waters brought fine-grained sand and mud known for preserving fossilized life in comparable environments on Earth. The Martian crater's lake grew as wide as 35 km in diameter and as deep as 30 m.
Mount Etna in the background, a huge crater in the foreground. I intentionally overexposed this frame when shooting to bring out the beautiful colors of this scene. Catania, Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹
Gear:
• Fed-5 (Kharkiv FED, ~1977)
• Industar-61L/D 55 mm f/2.8 (Kharkiv FED, 1986)
• Kodak Professional Portra 400/36
Lunar impact (2016) - How this crater got its rings
Featuring a digital terrain model of the Orientale impact basin.
Credit: Ernest Wright, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Scientists discover huge, heat-emitting blob on the far side of the moon (www.livescience.com)
Scientists have discovered an anomalous blob of heat on the far side of the moon....