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Photo of the Month (October 2024 Edition): The most beautiful constellation in all the heavens After three long autumns with the Polar Star as my guide, I returned to Brazil in January, as I shared in my story Change. While in the Northern Hemisphere, I missed many things, among them seeing the Southern Cross […]
The missed moment #5 – The Rocket’s Trail in the Northern Lights Last month, I had the chance to travel to New Zealand to attend a conference on space technologies for forest research. I’ve been using satellite images in ecological research since 2012 and had already attended the same event in Chile eight years […]
Photo of the Month (September 2024 Edition): Jaguaretê The Jaguaretê, the true jaguar, known in Brazil as the onça-pintada (Panthera onca), is undoubtedly one of the most emblematic animals of Abya-Yala. Despite its wide geographic distribution, from northern Argentina to the southern United States, some populations are in decline. Hunting and habitat destruction make […]
The Unexpected Experiment I’ve heard several times that, in tourist spots, if there’s someone with a “professional” camera and a tripod set up, many people will gather around to take a photo from the same angle, in the most “professional” way possible. One of the explanations for this is that, in theory, “professional” cameras are […]