You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station by Chris Hadfield

Author:Chris Hadfield [Hadfield, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Themes / Aerial, Science / Space Science, Photography / Subjects &#38
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2014-10-14T00:00:00+00:00

Summer bushfires, sparked by extreme heat and dryness, sear new scars on dry plains. On average, there are 50,000 bushfires a year in Australia—a cycle of devastation (and regeneration) that is millions of years old.

Rock paintings in Australia are among the oldest on the planet, with some confirmed to date back at least 28,000 years. Called Gwion Gwion figures, many mirror the colors and shapes of the landscape so closely that they almost seem to have been inspired by an aerial view of the Outback. Perhaps they were: Gwion Gwion was, according to aboriginal cosmology, a long-beaked bird before he morphed into a human artist.

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