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endangered,

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liquid,

free,

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golden,

lovely,

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2025-07-30 19:58:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-30 23:16:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-30 09:01:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-30 08:44:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-30 08:40:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-30 19:06:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-30 11:09:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-30 10:43:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-07-29 20:25:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-29 11:29:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-29 11:06:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-29 21:31:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-29 09:11:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-29 13:33:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-29 12:02:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-28 11:35:38

Pasarea Monastery, Romania

"... cruising in a perfectly clear sky — but with scorching temperatures!"

2025-07-29 09:14:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-07-28 22:44:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-28 11:42:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-28 11:46:00

Tsonami Arte Sonoro

Valparaiso, Chile

2025-07-28 11:24:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-28 11:19:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-28 21:44:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-28 13:46:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-28 12:15:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-28 09:26:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-07-27 22:56:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-27 19:00:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-27 08:40:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-27 11:37:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-27 08:18:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-27 18:44:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-27 09:52:26

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

This weekend has been a meditation on clouds from below, above, and even amidst. The slightly gloomy conditions indicate strong sources of thermic lift, which I took advantage of on yesterday's flight over the city of York. The relatively calm passage of the clouds belie the energies at play, especially near the cloud-base itself - I admit that I remain mildly daunted, even now, when the variometer is beeping away and I'm being drawn up so strongly, jostled in my seat, with only a couple of hundred feet between me and the ominously dark, cloudy ceiling above the canopy. It is a privilege to take flight. From another standpoint, the conditions have been particularly good for radio reception, relatively free of noise, allowing this morning's NOAA-15 sounding, from a fairly low passing angle, to be surprisingly good. A good vantage on the early light over the Atlantic, from a satellite I now quite rarely get the chance to listen to.

2025-07-27 10:45:00

Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025-07-27 09:18:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-27 09:39:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-07-26 20:02:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-26 23:28:00

Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025-07-26 22:06:00

Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025-07-26 09:06:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-26 08:49:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-26 08:45:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-26 11:14:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-26 09:44:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-25 22:09:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-25 21:43:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-25 20:29:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-25 22:38:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-25 22:37:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-07-25 12:01:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-25 11:47:56

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-07-25 10:05:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-07-24 22:21:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-23 11:07:12

Steve Engelmann

Rim of the World, San Bernardino Mountains, United States

They call it the Rim of the World, because it feels like the rim of the world. This is in the San Bernardino mountains at the edge of San Andreas fault line. There are a cluster of rocks across from the Rim of the World High School with a spectacular view and a very dramatic drop-off. I was hoping for a cleaner image from 2,000 meters, no obstructions and an 81° elevation. Our political climate feels like we are at a metaphorical environmental precipice. In the news today the EPA is being defunded and making a legal argument that "greenhouse gases do not endanger people." I don't know what else to say.

2025-07-24 23:34:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-25 06:54:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-24 19:17:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-24 20:16:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-24 12:15:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-24 17:05:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-24 10:17:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-07-23 22:34:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-24 09:45:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-23 22:08:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-23 19:42:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-23 23:04:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-23 22:44:00

Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025-07-23 12:52:16

Clear sunny weather; 75º F

2025-07-23 08:28:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-23 10:53:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-23 09:56:00

Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025-07-23 10:31:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-07-23 06:21:00

Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025-07-23 09:57:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-22 20:07:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-22 18:30:40

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

A noisy sounding in poor conditions, but, as always, the grain emphasises the material frictions at play.

2025-07-22 23:17:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-22 11:18:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-22 19:09:00

Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025-07-22 08:54:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-22 11:19:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-06-15 20:04:45

Prajvi Mandhani

Greenwich Park , UK

22 degrees, mostly sunny. Alex and I climbed up the Greenwich Park 20 mins before NOAA 19 would pass our horizon. It was a beautiful spot with a good view of the sky, the thames and the Canary Wharf skyline. Standing in Greenwich Park, listening to a satellite getting decommissioned in the US, thinking of the thousands walking in the No-Kings Protest, listening to the last breaths of the satellite in solidarity. We saw the start of a beautiful sunset on the hill. I thought of Gaza, I thought if the crimson and orange of the sunsets would still look so beautiful amidst all the smoke and the rubble? I think I would sometimes hear the beep boops of the NOAA satellite in my dreams - Alex agrees.

2025-06-15 19:42:00

Greenwich Park , UK

Alex and Prajvi We were out of breath when we reached the top of the hill, and the sun was low, casting warm golden light through the trees. The signal was clear once we found it and the reading took on a strangely religious, almost elegiac feeling. A last goodbye to something intangible to us, a quiet communion with something higher. As the satellite dipped below the horizon with the sun slowly following, the signal was lost in crackling noise. The weather was slightly cloudy. We traced the coasts of France and Spain.

2025-07-22 10:09:00

Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa

2025-07-22 09:03:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-07-22 10:10:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-21 20:34:00

Diana Engelmann Filip Shatlan

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-07-21 11:30:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-21 11:07:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-21 16:44:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-21 21:32:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-07-21 12:03:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-21 09:09:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-07-21 09:15:00

Mauritius, Mauritius

2025-07-20 19:22:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-07-20 11:43:00

Seattle, United States

2025-07-20 19:23:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-07-20 20:21:00

Foto Colectania Hangar Ràdio Web MACBA

Barcelona, Spain

2025-07-20 17:10:00

Nastassja Simensky

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2025-07-20 21:45:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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