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Khiluk Now that the snow and ice have melted and the summer season is smiling on the boreal regions of the world, Spotted Lake in Canada is having its strange annual transformation. Most of the year it looks like a normal endorheic lake, without an outlet and the focus point of the local drainage system. Such lakes are often alkaline, and concentrate dissolved minerals from the surrounding catchment area. As summer warms the north, the water gradually evaporates, leaving craters full of mineralised water and evaporation crusts that have been sacred to the First Peoples and used for therapeutic purposes since time immemorial. The craters change hue as the evaporation proceeds, and diverse mixes of sulphates and phosphates interact producing a series of unique mixtures. There are 365 separate pools, and to the indigenous Okanagan Nation. each one has its unique medicinal power. The lake was acquired for the Nation in 2001 and is now protected. Loz Image credit: strangesounds.org http://strangesounds.org/2013/04/discover-the-mystic-spotted-lake-a-sacred-site-producing-therapeutic-waters-near-osoyoos-bc-canada.html Another good photo showing the whole lake: http://guntermarx.photoshelter.com/image/I0000cBvOsl7fwwE
NASA art by Don Davis, 1975.
(National Archives)
“I would like to humanize the space age by giving a perspective from a non-astronaut, because I think the students will look at that and say, ‘This is an ordinary person. This ordinary person is contributing to history.’”
—Christa McAuliffe (September 2, 1948–January 28, 1986)
The Galle Crater on Mars, aka the Happy Face Crater, imaged by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on January 28, 2008.
(Malin Space Science Systems)
Total eclipse of the Sun, July 1860, illustrated by astronomer Warren de la Rue.
Pierre Cardin’s Bubble Palace In Cannes, France by Antti Lovag.
Built between 1975-1989.
