#Visit Antarctica

[grainelevator]

The aeolian processes of katabatic winds in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys shape boulders into surreal formations

[tianalaurence1]

Tim and Anne has been on all 7 continents 💪

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #PenguinAwarenessDay here is an unusual silk garment:

Haori with Penguins and Icebreaker Ships

Japan, Shōwa period, 1957-8

silk plain weave with stencil-printed warp & weft

Penguins aren’t native to Japan; This unique design was printed to commemorate Japan's 1st expedition to Antarctica in 1956-7.

Photographed at the Life of Animals in Japanese Art exhibition at the National Gallery of Art D.C. in 2019.

“This design, unusual for a waterside bird motif, commemorates Japan's first expedition to Antarctica in 1956-1957. Occurring a decade after Japan's defeat in World War II, this expedition was seen as a symbol of the nation's recovery. While the use of a penguin motif is unknown in Japanese garments of the Edo period, this piece shows how modern garment makers eagerly absorbed motifs from all over.” [The Life of Animals in Japanese Art, p. 231]

[thenarrativefoil]

if this site gets deleted im mad max fury roading it cross country to visit the mutuals. hello im in your yard. yes i brought snacks do you want to watch a show?

[askshivanulegacy]

@dingoat Antarctica bucket list

In the heart of Antarctica, nature creates an incredible sight: a red waterfall cascading through the perennial ice of the Taylor Glacier.

This phenomenon, known as Blood Falls, is even more fascinating than it appears.

Its intense color is not only due to oxidized iron but also to tiny iron-rich spheres created by small bacteria living in a salty lake hidden beneath a glacier.

When this water reaches the surface and encounters oxygen, it takes on such an intense red hue that it seems unreal in the Antarctic landscape.

The waterfall continues to flow even at subzero temperatures, creating a unique spectacle where science and beauty converge in a natural masterpiece.

And to think that this incredible ecosystem could provide us with clues about possible forms of life on other planets, such as Mars.

Nature always surprises us and knows how to surpass our imagination!

Credits: UM TONHO/TONHA ·

( Elias Sakkis )

[yimra]

My ass wants to visit Antarctica before I die

[exoexid]

remember that one time people were panicking because junmy mentioned tumblr at one of their concerts? (allegedly! iirc there was a video of that, but yk...) well i think he really needs to create a tumblr blog NOW because there's no way sm convinced him obsession wasn't huge :/ he should listen to what the people (us) are saying instead !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[faxxmachine]

I start November so psyched, so ready for summer. Then December comes and I'm either in an airfryer or drowning in 99% humidity and the sky is an unpleaseant shade of grey constantly because it's either overcast or the surrounding forest are on fire. There is no in-between any longer in Victoria. By January I haven't had a full night's sleep for a month and I am completely and hopelessly insane from it. My skin is parchment. I can't go out but if I stay in I will commit seppuku. I can't open my window at night to a cool change because everyone around me is also insane and literally howling like loons at 11pm on a Wednesday night. Bugs are, in fact, the least of my woes.

Until a huntsman takes up residence in the toilet.

notice how there's no bugs. notice how a mosquito isn't keeping you awake night after night. notice how sleep in general isn't a strategic challenge. notice all this before you utter a word in support of summer

[croziers-compass]

Bit random as I've never watched the Terror, but I thought you'd like to know that I live about eight minutes away from Francis Crozier's place of birth, Banbridge

northirish is in my inbox. play it cool. play it cool

You thought correctly about that! I'm packing my bags and I'll sleep on your floor! Contae an Dúin is so beautiful with its coastlines. My heart. nailed it.

No Need to watch The Terror to be able to appreciate how wildly neat and an utter Indiana Jones of a man Francis Crozier was! Not going to lie it's on my list to see the Avonmore House (because I hear it's a museum / memorial right now dedicated to Crozier of which I would delight in!) Date Ideas: Visiting local maritime and war museums

Thank you dearly for visiting! I will bear you in mind if / when I visit!

[nasa]

A Tour of Cosmic Temperatures

We often think of space as “cold,” but its temperature can vary enormously depending on where you visit. If the difference between summer and winter on Earth feels extreme, imagine the range of temperatures between the coldest and hottest places in the universe — it’s trillions of degrees! So let’s take a tour of cosmic temperatures … from the coldest spots to the hottest temperatures yet achieved.

First, a little vocabulary: Astronomers use the Kelvin temperature scale, which is represented by the symbol K. Going up by 1 K is the same as going up 1°C, but the scale begins at 0 K, or -273°C, which is also called absolute zero. This is the temperature where the atoms in stuff stop moving. We’ll measure our temperatures in this tour in kelvins, but also convert them to make them more familiar!

We’ll start on the chilly end of the scale with our CAL (Cold Atom Lab) on the International Space Station, which can chill atoms to within one ten billionth of a degree above 0 K, just a fraction above absolute zero.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Just slightly warmer is the Resolve sensor inside XRISM, pronounced “crism,” short for the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission. This is an international collaboration led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) with NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). Resolve operates at one twentieth of a degree above 0 K. Why? To measure the heat from individual X-rays striking its 36 pixels!

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Resolve and CAL are both colder than the Boomerang Nebula, the coldest known region in the cosmos at just 1 K! This cloud of dust and gas left over from a Sun-like star is about 5,000 light-years from Earth. Scientists are studying why it’s colder than the natural background temperature of deep space.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Let’s talk about some temperatures closer to home. Icy gas giant Neptune is the coldest major planet. It has an average temperature of 72 K at the height in its atmosphere where the pressure is equivalent to sea level on Earth. Explore how that compares to other objects in our solar system!

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

How about Earth? According to NOAA, Death Valley set the world’s surface air temperature record on July 10, 1913. This record of 330 K has yet to be broken — but recent heat waves have come close. (If you’re curious about the coldest temperature measured on Earth, that’d be 183.95 K (-128.6°F or -89.2°C) at Vostok Station, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.)

We monitor Earth's global average temperature to understand how our planet is changing due to human activities. Last year, 2023, was the warmest year on our record, which stretches back to 1880.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

The inside of our planet is even hotter. Earth’s inner core is a solid sphere made of iron and nickel that’s about 759 miles (1,221 kilometers) in radius. It reaches temperatures up to 5,600 K.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

We might assume stars would be much hotter than our planet, but the surface of Rigel is only about twice the temperature of Earth’s core at 11,000 K. Rigel is a young, blue star in the constellation Orion, and one of the brightest stars in our night sky.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger 

We study temperatures on large and small scales. The electrons in hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, can be stripped away from their atoms in a process called ionization at a temperature around 158,000 K. When these electrons join back up with ionized atoms, light is produced. Ionization is what makes some clouds of gas and dust, like the Orion Nebula, glow.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

We already talked about the temperature on a star’s surface, but the material surrounding a star gets much, much hotter! Our Sun’s surface is about 5,800 K (10,000°F or 5,500°C), but the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, called the corona, can reach millions of kelvins.

Our Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona in 2021, helping us answer questions like why it is so much hotter than the Sun's surface. This is one of the mysteries of the Sun that solar scientists have been trying to figure out for years.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Looking for a hotter spot? Located about 240 million light-years away, the Perseus galaxy cluster contains thousands of galaxies. It’s surrounded by a vast cloud of gas heated up to tens of millions of kelvins that glows in X-ray light. Our telescopes found a giant wave rolling through this cluster’s hot gas, likely due to a smaller cluster grazing it billions of years ago.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Now things are really starting to heat up! When massive stars — ones with eight times the mass of our Sun or more — run out of fuel, they put on a show. On their way to becoming black holes or neutron stars, these stars will shed their outer layers in a supernova explosion. These layers can reach temperatures of 300 million K!

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman

We couldn’t explore cosmic temperatures without talking about black holes. When stuff gets too close to a black hole, it can become part of a hot, orbiting debris disk with a conical corona swirling above it. As the material churns, it heats up and emits light, making it glow. This hot environment, which can reach temperatures of a billion kelvins, helps us find and study black holes even though they don’t emit light themselves.

JAXA’s XRISM telescope, which we mentioned at the start of our tour, uses its supercool Resolve detector to explore the scorching conditions around these intriguing, extreme objects.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

Our universe’s origins are even hotter. Just one second after the big bang, our tiny, baby universe consisted of an extremely hot — around 10 billion K — “soup” of light and particles. It had to cool for a few minutes before the first elements could form. The oldest light we can see, the cosmic microwave background, is from about 380,000 years after the big bang, and shows us the heat left over from these earlier moments.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

We’ve ventured far in distance and time … but the final spot on our temperature adventure is back on Earth! Scientists use the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to smash teensy particles together at superspeeds to simulate the conditions of the early universe. In 2012, they generated a plasma that was over 5 trillion K, setting a world record for the highest human-made temperature.

Want this tour as a poster? You can download it here in a vertical or horizontal version!

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

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[boardboxes]

trying to keep it together while my rich and bougie grandparents talk abt all the trips they take around the world while I can barely afford to pay rent and I have to work 2 jobs while being a full time student

[polarholidaysus]

Unveiling The Enchanting Destination: The Best Time To Visit Antarctica

Planning for your next Antarctica trip? Consider the Best Time To Visit Antarctica for a wonderful experience. The mesmerizing Antarctica is bestowed with pristine beauty and raw wilderness that lure the attention of adventurers from across the globe. Icy landscapes, towering glaciers and implausible wildlife make this place an ideal destination.

People are often confused about the Best Time to Go to Antarctica for an awe-inspiring journey. However, it is vital to make sure about the best time to visit this amazing destination prior to reserving a trip down to the Polar Circle. Well, summer is the best season to consider for your Antarctica trip and make sure you have planned your trip at least 12 months in advance. This will help you in making the right decision about the time and itinerary to go.

Unveiling the Best Time To Visit Antarctica that ensures a memorable experience in this frozen wonderland-

Summer's Splendor (November to March)- When we talk about summer in Antarctica, it is spanning from November to March. This period is the most popular time to visit this captivating continent. During this time, Antarctica trip cruises run regularly and each month ensures a different charm. You will experience extended daylight hours, milder temperatures and abundant wildlife encounters. You will witness the towering icebergs gleaming as cute penguins waddle and play along the shores. On the flip side, there are some activities to enjoy such as kayaking and camping during this period.

Is Winter Good For The Antarctic Tour?

Winter is not prohibited for tourists, but this is not the Best Time to Go to Antarctica and you can’t really visit. Especially, winter in the Southern Ocean presents inappropriate conditions for tourists to visit. This place experiences a rapid decrease in daylight hours, concluding in a period where the sun remains hidden and leaving the continent in complete darkness.

When it comes to temperatures, they often plummet to as low as -50 degrees Celsius. It makes frequent snowfall and ice storms. Additionally, the snow blocks access to the usual entry points for ships. There are no Antarctica cruises available until late October. You cannot find conventional public transportation too. This is even more challenging for tourists during the winter months.

Factors to Consider To Visit Antarctica-

When planning a trip to Antarctica, several factors need to be considered. Make sure about the availability of cruises and expedition tours. The duration of your trip, budget and personal preferences should also be considered.

Hiring a professional and experienced travel company can tailor your journey and tell you the Best Time To Visit Antarctica. Visit www.polarholidays.com.

[ghosstkid]

Aw I’m so glad you enjoyed it!! ❤️ It was such a fun exhibit to do, I wrote all but two of the text panels and got to pick all the objects that went into the exhibit! The Ross book is actually from my collection lol And omg yes I’m so happy you loved the library!! I had to debate our exhibit designer to get it added and then I put all the letters and images together lol

I’m currently working on an inventory of our object collection and I had finished our Arctic collection earlier this year! We have a lot more objects but they aren’t in good condition and would be too at risk if put on display.

If there’s anything else you want to know, send me an ask! If you are local or staying a while, we do have an archive and reference library consisting of 11,000 books on maritime history!

Got to go to the Vancouver maritime museum and see their exhibit on the northwest passage !!!!!

First post since there's a picture limit but I'll be sharing more :)

[ckret2]

If the Time Baby exists in the far way future of the Gravity Falls Main Timeline, why was he so concerned about Bill being free from the Nightmare Realm? The fact that he exists in the far future proves that Bill was defeated in the past to begin with.

Here's what we know about time & Weirdmageddon:

When it begins, one of the first things Bill says is "TIME IS DEAD and meaning has no meaning!"

Something like a week of time passes inside of Weirdmageddon, but when it's over, it's like no time has passed in the real world

Bill murders Time Baby and then declares he can control time.

Something temporally fucky is going on inside Weirdmageddon.

So here's my theory:

In the normal timeline where chronological cause and effect matter, Time Baby can rest assured that events proceed such that he will safely rule the future. But Bill "WHY MUST CAUSE PRECEDE EFFECT" Cipher's party isn't part of the normal timeline. It's capable of retroactively breaking the universe in the 21st century and erasing the future where Time Baby rules—along with every other future.

Time Baby's future isn't proof that Bill's defeated. It's an example of a timeline in which Weirdmageddon NEVER HAPPENED—and Bill's about to change that. There's a possibility Bill COULD win.

Bonus headcanon:

The fact that Weirdmageddon's outside the normal timeline is also why I headcanon Time Baby only got involved THEN—and didn't, say, appear over Gravity Falls in 1980 to say "HEAR THIS, STANFORD PINES! BILL'S A CREEP. DON'T BUILD HIS PORTAL" or whatever.

My headcanon is that any given Time Giant can only exist in ONE place at any point on their own timeline. So like, if a Time Giant does the laundry on Wednesday, and then on Thursday finds out that there was a cool concert yesterday, they can time travel back to Wednesday to catch the concert, but now the past has been changed so that they didn't do the laundry because they were at the concert instead. They can't loop back and cause two versions of themselves to exist at once; the act of looping back erases the original version of themself.

The same way the time tape works: when Dipper & Mabel rewind the day of the carnival, Dipper doesn't run into his past self attempting the ball toss and Mabel doesn't run into her past self winning Waddles; they replace their past selves so only one version of them exists.

Something about the fact that Time Baby has been comatose and in ice in Antarctica for the past 66 million years or whatever somehow interferes with his time powers to prevent him from time traveling back to (and replacing) himself during a moment he's frozen. A time giant can loop back to a moment they're doing the laundry, but apparently not to a moment they're comatose. That means that entire era of Earth's history, from the moment he's knocked out to the moment he wakes up, is guaranteed Time Baby-free, because he can't visit ANY of it...

... except for the one moment OUTSIDE of time... Weirdmageddon. Which is why Time Baby could ONLY make a move to try to stop Bill right then, even though he surely knew Bill's been working on breaking into earth for millions of years.

This is why he also has to send human agents with time tapes to do his bidding during that era: he can't do it himself.

AND it's why I headcanon it takes 1000 years for his molecules to reconstitute after Bill zaps him. Because two Time Babies can't exist at the same moment in history, and because Present Time Baby can't replace his past self while his past self is in a coma, he just has to wait in a state of non-existence until Past Time Baby thaws, wakes up, and pops off to some other point in the timeline... and at last, Present Time Baby has a free spot in the timeline where he isn't being nullified by his own past self and can reconstitute.

[cipher-fresh]

Proposals for what 15 and Ruby have been doing for 8 months instead of visiting alien planets:

Rewatching the April 8 solar eclipse over bodies of water in the TARDIS

Karaoke bars

TARDIS wardrobe fashion shows

Petting dogs at Territorio de Zaguates dog sanctuary in Costa Rica

TARDIS swimming pool days

Renaissance faire

Viewing the Earth from outer space

Free museums, which the Doctor keeps wondering why certain artifacts aren’t housed (they haven’t been uncovered by archeologists yet in 2024 but the Doctor has visited this sane museum in the future)

Getting into concerts for free by parking the TARDIS at a venue days in advance

Re-enacting John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) in Antarctica