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With the end of the current Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 missions, NASA will soon launch the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) or the Landsat 8 mission. I am pretty excited on this as I have been using Landsat datasets in my remote sensing research! For those interested of the…
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The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. is a beautiful walk through all the meanders of our memory. The Presidental Gallery and the American Origins Gallery are galleries not to be missed. Housed in the old Patent Office building, the National Portrait Gallery is connected to another gallery, the Gallery…
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December 25th in Brookings, South Dakota… It is Christmas 2012 and everything around me looks so gloomy! Sitting by the glass window and tapping my fingers on the wooden table, I stared outside watching for movements on the snow-covered walkways. No one is outside on Christmas day. The fact that…
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I love the name: Church of 100 Walls. The church is actually the Chapel of San Pedro Calungsod. The structure was built at the South Road Property to pay homage to the newly canonized Saint from Cebu, Pedro Calungsod. New York-based, Filipino-Colombian architect Carlos Arnaiz said, “Each wall is different…
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Here are the latest satellite images of the super typhoon Bopha aka Pablo that is currently making a landfall in the Philippines. The images were taken by the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite’s VIIRS instrument around 0435Z on December 3, 2012. I posted few useful links below if you want to…
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These are lovely captures of the moons of Saturn showing the Pac-Man pattern (from the popular 1980s video game icon) on their surface temperature images. The first was found on Mimas in 2010, and the most recent one was found on the moon Tethys. Scientists theorize that the Pac-Man thermal…
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For those math-challenged individuals who find it hard to solve a simple 3x+4=20 equation, you may try the Web Equation tool to do the calculation for you for free. The tool utilizes the Wolfram Alpha system for a step by step solution. By the way, the tool can solve complex…
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Residents and vacationists gathered along avenues and side streets in a 23F cold Saturday morning in Brookings, South Dakota to witness the 2012 Hobo Day parade. The event was part of the week-long celebration commemorating 100 years of Hobos. I was never a fan of the Hobo Day parade, to…
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