Urtd Picture Log

Urtd Picture Log

Pictures from the internet that caught my eye or mind for more than 3 seconds.

Wikipedia: Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes, normally in perpendicular alignment to the wind direction. Due to their shape, they have been offered as an explanation for some UFO sightings.

WTF Observer: Mir Mine is a former open pit diamond mine, now inactive, located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The mine is 525 m deep (4th in the world) and has a diameter of 1,200 m, and is the second largest excavated hole in the world, after Bingham Canyon Mine. The airspace above the mine is closed for helicopters because of incidents in which they were sucked in by the downward air flow.

East Slovakian Steelworks, 1968 via RetroSlovensko

Amphibious assault vehicles of the South Korean Marine Corps throw smoke bombs as they move to land on shore during a U.S.-South Korea joint landing operation drill in Pohang, about 370 km (230 miles) southeast of Seoul, on April 26, 2013. The drill is part of the two countries’ annual military training called Foal Eagle, which began on March 1 and ran until April 30. (Reuters/Lee Jae-Won) via The Atlantic

Multiwave by Pierre Carreau via Colossal
“Carreau […] shoots waves with a variety of high speed cameras using various macro and wide angle lenses, capturing water shapes that appear more sculptural than liquid.”

Photographed in November of 2012 by the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera, this is a photograph of a hurricane nearly 1,250 miles wide on the surface of Saturn. Via NASA

Cherry blossoms covered with snow in Nagano, Japan by あお via Spoon & Tamago

Aerialscapes by Jakob Wagner

Container by Jakob Wagner

Caribbean Sea by Jakob Wagner

Toronto, CA © Ivan Staňo 2013

A gift of watermelon pickle by Alan Friedman
The sun with Venus in transit, through rose colored glasses and here without color.

A shiny-looking Martian rock is visible in this image taken by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity’s Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the mission’s 173rd Martian day, or sol (Jan. 30, 2013). (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems) via WTF Observer

Košice, Slovakia via RetroSlovensko