Station Fire in La Canada down in SoCal looks to be getting a bit nasty.
Spectacular Evening Images from a Mt Wilson webcam - hope it is still there in the morning.
Fire/Evacuation map from LA Times
I hear JPL is closed over the weekend.
Better hope wind doesn't shift and pick up.
Oh, ok, grabbed a night image for souvenir - web cam images are of course dynamic
Mt Wilson view 9:30 pm 29th Aug '09
PS: view over JPL towards the mountains the other night
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“This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective.
“This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective.
This from JPL:
"Shorty after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. During closest approach, Cassini successfully passed only 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the surface of the tiny moon.
"In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it." -John Archibald Wheeler
Love it. Was searching for 'station fire la canada' and ended up reading your 'scientific comment' blog AND watching Athletico Spizz 80.