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I finally got a clean photo of the old Eureka Opera House (1880) and Jackson House Hotel in Eureka, Nevada. Usually there are vehicles parked in front. Too bad this wasn't in the evening with the lights on. The reflections on the wet pavement would have been awesome! Guess you gotta take what you can get!

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So this is the pictograph to the left of the really crisp one seen in my last post. Sadly, this one has not fared well over the centuries. The left side of it has mostly been washed away by water running down the cliff face. I enhanced this one quite a bit so we could see some of the detail. When it was fresh, I think this one would have really been spectacular! It has many more elements to it than the last one I posted.

#Archeology #Desert #Canyon #RockArt #Photography #Darktable

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A close crop of an earlier post from a couple of weeks ago. Also, since I'm on my home computer, I slightly enhanced it using a parametric mask in Darktable to reveal a bit more detail.

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The Biosphere Experiment - Making Of | ARTE.tv Documentary

Caroline and Corentin see a low-tech future: They want to live in harmony with the #natural world and they want to prove to others that it is possible. The #Biosphere Experiment is an attempt to live self-sufficiently in the #desert for 120 days and to survive and flourish in this extreme environment, they need to be prepared for their mission

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=IJRZsPYesA8

#makingof #artetvdocumentary #biosphere

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What's this boring looking thing? It's anything but boring, although its mission is like watching grass grow until it's hit by an ultrahigh energy cosmic ray! This is an element of the Telescope Array Cosmic Observatory west of Delta, Utah. It's one of 507 scintillator detectors that are spread across ~270^2 miles. Since 2008, 30 ultra-high-energy cosmic particles have been detected. Thus far, there's no explanation for their extreme energy or their origin.

#Astronomy #AstroPhysics #Desert

elaterite, to AncientHistory
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I'm not sure who that old coot is photo bombing this cliff dwelling, but I saw him free climb down into the canyon from the mesa top. Silly old guy must have went up the wrong canyon looking for this ruin, climbed out, walked across the mesa, & then climbed down into this, the right canyon with its really cool cultural site. There's rock art decorating the canyon walls, pottery shards, 800-year-old corn cobs, & pressure flakes everywhere!

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elaterite, to AncientHistory
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Nice! Using parametric masks in Darktable I was able to enhance the extremely faded green pictographs in this panel! Green is a very rare color to see in Utah Four Corners area pictographs.

elaterite, (edited ) to AncientHistory
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Nice pictograph and hand print I found hiking canyons in Utah the other day. (Note: I enhanced the saturation a bit in Darktable using parametric masks. The original is quite faded, sadly.)

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elaterite, (edited ) to Geology
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Mikal, to Flowers
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Carrizo Plain trip a week and a half ago. Spent the night so I could be there for storm clouds at dawn. Soda Lake and starlings. Being there for the nice light was worth miles and miles of liquid-snot mud on the road in.

zook, to Arizona

Sedona, AZ, April 2024

elaterite, (edited ) to Battlemaps
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Love this abandoned gas station. Always stop to make a few photos.(Phone photo.)

#Abandoned #Ruin #Desert #Roadtrip

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Where I woke up yesterday morning.

elaterite, to Battlemaps
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A nice view for after dinner coffee!

elaterite, (edited ) to Battlemaps
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Cactus flowers are the best. This is an Echinocereus or hedgehog cactus. It's an early bloomer on the Colorado Plateau.

#Cactus #Wildflower #Desert #Botany

elaterite, to Battlemaps
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Nice little canyon I'm camped next to this evening.

#Canyon #Desert #Rock #Geology

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Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) leans to one side in the Arizona Cactus Garden, Stanford University. #joshuatree #yucca #desert #flora #cactus #stanford

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Science Magazine astronomy covers

Object of desire - A castaway from ancient Mars (2014)

Featuring "Black Beauty", a 4.4 billion years old meteorite from Mars.

https://science.org/toc/science/346/6213

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