#City in the sky

[insectoidboi]

City in the sky

[kommandantpinks-art]

Linktober Day 7: Sky / Sky Islands

I was going to draw the sky islands from TotK but I remembered the Oocca existed and that they were from the city in the sky, suddenly I wanted to draw that instead so xD

Hooray for Ooccoos! Those goofy little birds

[oktaviaslabyrinth]

City in the Sky // The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006)

[imweepin]

body of Lila

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[xenforce]

Day 7: Sky

Linktober 2023

“In the blink of an eye, Shad was suddenly falling, plummeting to his death. He cried out to the hero still on the island, but before he could finish his cry, he saw the brave hero gracefully dive for him, stretching out his arm equiped with his clawshot, ready to launch it at any second. His visage was set in determination, not an inch of fear visible. The breath in Shad was knocked out as he helplessly watched and braced himself.”

The hero of twilight bravely takes a dive to save a clumsy book worm who accidentally stepped off a sky island 🤭

Not your usual sky island that you would instantly think of nowadays, but I wanted to do something different (reading the Twilight Princess manga inspired me. If you haven’t read it yet, pls do it now).

Hey guys, sorry for being so delayed with Linktober. Last two weeks have been really really tough… 😣 So I wasn’t able to do much drawing. But I’m planning to finish this challenge no matter how long it takes! Please bear with me. I really appreciate your support!

[jonreytrevino]

From the archives, some pixel art cloud art. I been busy with stuff. so here y'all go.

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[guessimdumb]

The Staple Singers - City in the Sky (1974)

From the Staple Singers last LP for Stax - funky, soulful and hopeful.

I wanna fly away

[asdaricus]

City in the sky

by Midjourney v6

[kazraza]

today is my last chance to plug my 10k years ago first calamity zelink fic city in the sky by saying you can’t prove it didn’t happen

[millkyyyyyyyyy]

‧˚꒷꒦︶︶₊꒷꒦︶︶₊꒷꒦꒷꒦︶︶₊꒷꒦︶‧˚꒷꒦︶︶₊꒷꒦︶︶₊꒷꒦꒷

⊂⊃﹒🌙﹒⟢ don't expect to be saved . . .

. . . just save yourself. ♡﹒⊂✨⊃﹐

‧˚꒷꒦︶︶₊꒷꒦︶︶₊꒷꒦꒷꒦︶︶₊꒷꒦︶‧˚꒷꒦︶︶₊꒷꒦︶︶₊꒷꒦꒷

[darkmagica-0]

[insectoidboi]

Based on this art

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

purple sky in fuzhou, fujian province by 活该咪_

[ilustracioneslv]

Eridurk, la última ciudad flotante.

Alguna vez fue la sede de los Shahad, seres diversos, alados y abstractos. Antiguo hogar del dios Sol que se eleva por encima de las nubes, hoy se encuentra abandonada.

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La ciudad flotante es uno de los lugares dentro del mundo de Tlel, es una ciudad hecha para seres voladores, originalmente no había conexiones entre las partes flotantes, cuando algunos terrestres se mudaron ahí, se instalaron rieles para que pudieran moverse de un lado a otro de la ciudad. Sol vivía dentro del árbol de luz.

[jeandejard3n]

Star Wars: I Had No Choice

[deep-space-netwerk]

So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.