Hang a left at Europa

Photographer Ron Miller creates incredible pictures of what it would look like if planets were closer

Agree with John Gruber, that would be one heckuva highway to cruise down.

Colorado Fire Smoke Over London, Canada?

Here’s some uncalibrated lidar measurements from the night of 21 June, 2013 which show what appears to be a faint smoke layer around 13 km. I did a quick and dirty run of HYSPLIT and the trajectories go back to Colorado in about 2 days. They descend about 25% of their initial height, e.g. as they go across the prairies they drop, for instance, from 10,000 m to 7,500 m elevation.

Uncalibrated returns from The University of Western Ontario’s Purple Crow Lidar, shows an apparent thin smoke layer around 13 km altitude. Full size image available here.

A supercell near Booker, Texas

A supercell near Booker, Texas

Incredible time lapse photography of a supercell storm by Mike Oblinski. The small scale structure in the vortex is spectacular. Via Dalton Caldwell on ADN.

@EB 7June13

@EB 7June13, a set on Flickr.

Some fun lidar photos from #EchoBase on Friday night via Crow Emily.