In 1976 “Mothership Connection” peaked at #4 on the R&B Chart and peaked at #13 on the Billboard top 200. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA.
This extraordinary view of Jupiter was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on the outbound leg of its 12th close flyby of the gas giant planet. This new perspective of Jupiter from the south makes the Great Red Spot appear as though it is in northern territory. [1920 x 1080]
Flowering Plum and Moon by Ohara Koson. Ohara Koson (1877 – 1945) was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga (“new prints”) movement.
Ah, copper, what would us lovers of mineral eye candy do without you, from the greens and blues of malachite and azurite to the electric colours of Paraiba type tourmaline (seehttp://tinyurl.com/mqbbysd).
Resembling a moss or lichen encrusted over a rock, this crust of conichalcite (calcium copper arsenate) was born when a primary sulphide/oxide deposit was altered by oxidising fluids when percolated by groundwater. Often forming in crusts or rounded masses (a habit called botryoidal) on limonite rich rocks (an iron oxide), it is commonly found in Arizona (around Bisbee), Mexico (where this specimen comes from), Chile , Cornwall and Cumbria in England and the world famous Tsumeb mine in Namibia. Named after the Greek words for copper and powder in 1849, colours vary from yellowish to the deep green of this piece made of tiny crystalline balls, measuring 10.4 x 8.9 x 4.2 cm.
The hibiscus harlequin bug [also known as cotton harlequin bugs, Tectocoris diophthalmus]. In spite of their beautiful colors, these bugs are just one example of a “stink bug”, producing a foul odor when provoked as a defense mechanism. Images by
Kevin Seawright and
Dave Taylor.
The hibiscus harlequin bug [also known as cotton harlequin bugs, Tectocoris diophthalmus]. In spite of their beautiful colors, these bugs are just one example of a “stink bug”, producing a foul odor when provoked as a defense mechanism. Images by
Kevin Seawright and
Dave Taylor.
