The Beauty of Mother Nature

In
the past, the Dowbrigade News has been accused of having it’s journalistic
mind in the gutter, and of being obsessed with female anatomy.  To
demonstrate our well-rounded interest in other topics, completely non-sexual,
like astronomy, let me exhibit the following photos.

For those of us who
grew up wanting to be astronauts, NASA’s spectacular photographs
are
as
close
as we
will
ever get. However,
how nice to be able to surf over to the NASA site Earth
Observatory News, and peruse the latest satellite snapshots.
In addition to being exciting science, these photographs are works
of art in and of themselves. It’s
kind of like lying on your back on a summer day and imagining things
in the
clouds. Do you see an elephant? A basketball eating a banana? Take
these recent photos of Tropical Storm Monty as it raged over the coast
of Africa,
for example….

A wall
of Saharan
Desert dust that was captured in an image from March 3, 2004,
had billowed
out
over
the
Atlantic
and
begun
to spread northward by the next day. The leading edge of the dust storm
in several places was advancing at speeds of up to 50 km per hour.
The above image of the massive plume of dust was captured by the Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), aboard NASA’s Terra satellite
on March 4, 2004.

untouched photos – originals from NASA