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Rockstar Photographers: Astronaut Andre Kuiper & The Flattened Moonbeam

encyclopediahomeschoolica — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:34:36 +0000

Remember the Supermoon of 2012? The perigee full moon on May 5, 2012 was as much as 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons of 2012. Danish astronaut Andre Kuiper was on a mission at the International Space Station when he took these photos of the supermoon sinking into the earth’s atmosphere. These images taken high above earth from space were taken with a digital camera. The bottom of the moon seems distorted because its light is being refracted by Earth’s atmospheric layers – beautiful!

Chalk Talk

encyclopediahomeschoolica — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:44:46 +0000

Quick Thinking: Brian Bews & The Burning Plane

encyclopediahomeschoolica — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:28:32 +0000

Captain Brian Bews was demonstrating Canada’s CF-18 fighter jet during an 2010 airshow when the aircraft exploded into a fireball. Mr. Bews was practicing low altitude maneuvers when he realized the jet was unresponsive. He told NBC: “It was about two seconds of me trying to fight the jet…something went terribly wrong,” he said. “I knew where the jet was going and didn’t want to go with it so I pulled the ejection handle…my training kicked in, I knew I had to do it.”

And if that’s not enough, there’s a video.

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