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  1. White Rabbit

    Derinkuyu Ancient Underground City in Turkey

    In 1963, an inhabitant of Derinkuyu (in the region of Capadocia, central Anatolia, Turkey), demolishing a wall of his house-cave, discovered astonished that behind the same was a mysterious room that never had seen; this room took to another one, and this one to another one and another one…...
  2. CASPER

    Leaving St Kilda

    Clouds stream over the edge of Mullach Mòr, pouring into the valley as we sail against the sun from Village Bay, rounding the Point, and the Point of the Water, north under Oiseval and the Hill of the Wind, and round past the Skerry of the Cormorants, the Cleft of the Sea-Shepherd, and out...
  3. Unhypnotized

    EVE Cruciform, April 13, 2011

    SDO will perform the EVE cruciform maneuver tomorrow, April 13, 2011. Between 14:15 and 23:05 ET (4/13/2011, 18:15 UT and 4/14/2011, 03:05 UT) the satellite will trace out a plus sign with the Sun at the center. The satellite will pitch first and then yaw by 150 arcmin in each direction. More...
  4. Unhypnotized

    SDO Day 460: A Roll Maneuver

    Today between 0554 and 1234 UT the SDO spacecraft rolled around the axis that points toward the Sun. This produced some oddities is the displayed images but the rotation angle was removed before the images were placed on the website. Rolls are done to help understand and calibrate the...
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