Cicada

Cicada

Cicadas are often heard loudly in the Australian bush.
(70-200mm @ 70mm, macro ring, f10, 1/250s)

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Young Tawny Frogmouth

Young Tawny Frogmouth

Two Tawny Frogmouth fuzzballs...
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Peacock in full display

Peacock in full display

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The MIR has landed...

The MIR has landed...

The Russian deep sea submarine MIR at Lake Geneva. see also here for details

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MIR submarine at Lake Geneva

MIR submarine at Lake Geneva

... sometimes science means literally going to the bottom of it... :)

Two Russian MIR submarines were moved to Lausanne in 2011 for limnology research (lake and water research), as part of the ELEMO project. These are two of the only six or so manned submarines that can dive down to 6000m depth (Lake Geneva is a puddle compared to that, with "only" 300m depth). The same submarines also helped Cameron to film the Titanic for a motion picture with the same name as the ship...

Through some luck I had the opportunity to go on a 6 hour dive.

Equipment mounted on MIR-2: manipulators, sonar, cameras, lights, CTD profiler (conductivity, temperature, depth), realtime mass spectrometer, micropollutant collection pumps, water sampling bottles, etc.

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