Astronomy Picture of the Day - February 25th, 2022 - Perseverance Sol 354 (Narrated by Brian) This Navcam mosaic from Perseverance looks out over the car-sized rover's deck, across the floor of Jezero crater on Mars. Frames used to construct the mosaic view were captured on mission sol 354. That corresponds to Earth calendar date February 17, 2022, nearly one Earth year after the rover's landing. With a mass of over 1,000 kilograms, six-wheeled Perseverance is the heaviest rover to touch down on Mars. During its first year of exploration the rover has collected six (so far) rock core samples for later return to planet Earth, served as the base station for Ingenuity, the first helicopter on Mars, and tested MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment), converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220225.html This video was auto generated using data from NASA Open API. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MaVVpCMopA

Wikipedia Picture of the Day - December 26th, 2021 - Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi (Narrated by Emma) Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi is a Catholic church in Rome, Italy, situated on Via delle Botteghe Oscure in the rione of Sant'Angelo. It is the national church of Poland in Rome and is dedicated to Saint Stanislaus of Szczepanów. The ceiling of its single nave is decorated with this painting by Ermenegildo Costantini, entitled The Glory of Saint Stanislaus. Painting credit: Ermenegildo Costantini; photographed by Livioandronico Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-12-26 This video was auto generated using data and media from Wikipedia. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bWnBvS-ikw

Astronomy Picture of the Day - January 13th, 2020 - A Desert Eclipse (Narrated by Emma) A good place to see a ring-of-fire eclipse, it seemed, would be from a desert. In a desert, there should be relatively few obscuring clouds and trees. Therefore late last December a group of photographers traveled to the United Arab Emirates and Rub al-Khali, the largest continuous sand desert in world, to capture clear images of an unusual eclipse that would be passing over. A ring-of-fire eclipse is an annular eclipse that occurs when the Moon is far enough away on its elliptical orbit around the Earth so that it appears too small, angularly, to cover the entire Sun. At the maximum of an annular eclipse, the edges of the Sun can be seen all around the edges of the Moon, so that the Moon appears to be a dark spot that covers most -- but not all -- of the Sun. This particular eclipse, they knew, would peak soon after sunrise. After seeking out such a dry and barren place, it turned out that some of the most interesting eclipse images actually included a tree in the foreground, because, in addition to the sand dunes, the tree gave the surreal background a contrasting sense of normalcy, scale, and texture. Explore the Universe: Random APOD Generator Image Credit & Copyright: Maxime Daviron Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200113.html This video was auto generated using data from NASA Open API. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PuItK6pG7k

Wikipedia Picture of the Day - February 16th, 2021 - Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (Narrated by Salli) Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (4 March 1907 – 14 January 1990) was a British biochemist, whose research focused mainly on the thyroid gland. In 1954, she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. She was made a fellow of Bedford College, London, in 1973, an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1983, and an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1986. Photograph credit: National Institute for Medical Research; restored by Adam Cuerden Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-02-16 This video was auto generated using data and media from Wikipedia. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p50K83jZqs