Wikipedia Picture of the Day - July 22nd, 2023 - Lake Sherburne (Narrated by Amy) Lake Sherburne is located in the Many Glacier region of Glacier National Park, in the U.S. state of Montana. The lake is a reservoir, formed by Lake Sherburne Dam, which impounded Swiftcurrent Creek and was constructed in between 1914 and 1921. Photograph credit: Jacob W. Frank, National Park Service Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-07-22 This video was auto generated using data and media from Wikipedia. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1rBEiecuwU

Wikipedia Picture of the Day - December 15th, 2023 - Tim Peake (Narrated by Brian) Tim Peake (born 1972) is a British military officer and astronaut. On 15 December 2015, he embarked on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS), becoming the second astronaut wearing the British flag in space, after Helen Sharman. After graduating from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Peake served in various military roles between 1992 and 2009, accumulating 3,000 flying hours. He was then selected to join the European Space Agency's astronaut corps where he was trained and took part in missions such as in the Aquarius Reef Base, in which he spent twelve days underwater. During his mission to the ISS, Peake supported a spacewalk by two American astronauts before carrying out a spacewalk himself to replace a faulty sequential shunt unit on the station's solar arrays. He also participated in several UK events from space, such as delivering a new year's message broadcast on the BBC and remotely presenting an award to singer Adele in the Brit Awards 2016. Peake returned to Earth in June 2016, having completed 3,000 orbits of Earth, and retired from active service in 2023. This official NASA photograph of Peake was taken in 2013. Photograph credit: Robert Markowitz Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2023-12-15 This video was auto generated using data and media from Wikipedia. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoBLw0qM8Ww

Astronomy Picture of the Day - February 28th, 2023 - Crescent Moon Beyond Greek Temple (Narrated by Amy) Why is a thin crescent moon never seen far from a horizon? Because the only geometry that gives a thin crescent lunar phase occurs when the Moon appears close to the Sun in the sky. The crescent is not caused by the shadow of the Earth, but by seeing only a small part of the Moon directly illuminated by the Sun. Moreover, the thickest part of the crescent always occurs in the direction of the Sun. In the evening, a thin crescent Moon will set shortly after the Sun and not be seen for the rest of the night. Alternatively, in the morning, a crescent Moon will rise shortly before the Sun after not being seen for most of the night. Pictured two weeks ago, a crescent moon was captured near the horizon, just before sunrise, far behind remnants of the ancient Temple of Poseidon in Greece. Image Credit & Copyright: Elias Chasiotis Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230228.html This video was auto generated using data from NASA Open API. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyS99qSrNMQ

Wikipedia Picture of the Day - March 16th, 2021 - Saint Petersburg (Narrated by Salli) Saint Petersburg, the second-largest city in Russia, is situated at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. This photograph shows the eastern end of Vasilyevsky Island, known as the spit, surrounded by the river Neva. The Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns, built in the Greek Revival style in the first decade of the nineteenth century, is visible in the centre. Photograph credit: Alexander Savin Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2021-03-16 This video was auto generated using data and media from Wikipedia. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4b9YMSasYs