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   Vol. 14  No. 56
Monday July 13, 2015

The World In Our Hands

The World In Our Hands
   Touching the world . . . Among the best examples of bringing the beauty of our world down to earth are the tactile hyper globes created in Hamburg, Germany, by Globocess AG, which today stand in hotels, museums, and meteorological institutes.
   Projectors and prisms project up-to-date satellite images of the earth’s surface and clouds.
   The earth’s movement is simulated in real time and software provides constantly updated pictures from outer space.


 

   

 

  

HeavenlyThe World of Aviation . . . Pan American World Airways utilized this beautiful globe of the world as the centerpiece for its legendary flying boat base at Dinner Key (Miami-Coconut Grove), Florida, during 1933-45.
   Ten feet in diameter, the globe is 31.5 ft. around and weighs 6,500 Lbs.
   In 1960, the globe was moved down the road near Dinner Key to the Miami Science Museum (MSM) where it is the centerpiece of the grand lobby.
   In 2012 the globe was restored to its former glory to show its original (1933) colors & geography.


Aurora Borealis

   The Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, flare up green, yellow, and pink near the Vedauwoo Recreation Area on a recent Monday night between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming.
   The Northern Lights are the result of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth's atmosphere and charged particles released by the Sun.
   Variations in color are due to the type of gas particles that are colliding.

 

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