#SWOT

[suniverse-art]

May the 4th be with you!

[aspic31]

My piece for the @starwars-arttrade-2023 - for the wonderful @its-kinda-snowy ! Your dinLuke art is so gorgeous, and I hope you like this luke :)

[sheepfulsheepyardinspace]

luke: [one arm chopped off literally minutes ago] no!!! NOOO!!!!!

vader: [beatboxing softly with his respirator] what’s wrong, son

[parjaisquadpartysquad]

Just finished andor seasons 2, the gilroy brothers and tom bisset owe me so much fucking money for the therapy this has caused me to need. No spoilers but I have immediately started rogue one because I cannot be without Cassian anymore

[froggtogs]

some totk links i drew for a project in business class

[locamoca]

[kookyburrowing]

in an ideal world boba fett and leia organa are besties. han comes home from fucking around with chewie and his wife is bitching abt the senate to the bounty hunter who sold him to jabba. he asks what’s going on and boba sips his space drink (blue obviously) really loudly through a straw and leia’s just like han are you okay. this is my buddy boba. we hang out like three times a week. and han just. cannot.

[kara-zor-els]

Thoughts on the ending of the Supergirl woman of tomorrow

I really enjoyed it!

The showdown on the beach and Ruthye's speech to Kara as she contemplates killing Krem (which is in character imo. Kara has seen Krem commit mass genocide and has just had a friend die in her arms saving her) was very touching. Also kudos to TK for making me care about Comet and even feeling sad when he died.

At the end, Ruthye being an unreliable narrator is kind of a Tom King staple if you are familiar with his writing, and I found the idea of her writing a book explaining how Kara killed Krem to be pretty clever. As Kara points out, it provides closure to his victims and still allows him to serve his sentence and eventually be freed afterwards. Should Krem had died? In a real life setting maybe, if you want to consider him a war criminal (as opposed to just a mass murderer), depending on the justice system of each country. However this is a Supergirl comic and people deserving second chances is often the point.

The only thing confusing is the timeline, since Ruthye is an old woman and Kara shows up with the same uniform she wore at the end in AC right after, and that's set in present day. I take this to mean that Ruthye's species ages far faster than humans or kryptonians.

[hug-kiss-marry-kill]

[jaguarys]

Every day without fail I am thinking about Qi'ra by the way. Characters who are left behind. Characters who don't have the chance to be the good one. Characters who never get to be the hero. Characters who have to scrabble for the chance to be anything at all. Characters who will never regret still being alive. Characters who hold on so tight their hands are bleeding and who never get to be anything else

[stolenheartchronicles]

Harry Potter Headcanon!! 🔊 🔊 🔊

Hermione Granger should be a prodigy and a high achiever in the Muggle world as well.

I can picture her having graduated High School at age eleven, just before she came to Hogwarts.

And maybe she took correspondence courses and was able to earn a few Bachelor's Degrees before 6th year ended. 😊

[samaspic31]

obsessed with this vintage poster check out obiwan in a full jesus halo just vibing at the bottom

[beelzebubles]

i am back from my tumblr hiatus

EXAMS ARE FINALLY OVER

in other news, its almost 2 am and for the past 90 minutes i have been SWOT analysing my close friends love interests

[vriskarlmarx]

Orbit - Drabble

Fucking around with weird tense and perspective for Star Wars 100, prompt "Tatooine".

Character: Luke Skywalker Rating: G Summary: Luke will not be alone. Warnings: None.

Also on ao3.

Tomorrow, the twin suns will rise again. They will shine down on his hair, golden as the sand, and light his way to search for the lost droid. They will watch as Kenobi hands him his father's old weapon, as he takes his legacy in hand. They will orbit each other, a slow, millennial dance, and the boy from below will be swept away to distant stars — less warm, less familiar. They know he will miss them before he does.

But they will accompany him, at a distance. As he leaves home for the Galaxy, Tatooine will be kept warm.

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Cutting-Edge Satellite Tracks Lake Water Levels in Ohio River Basin

Data from the U.S.-European Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission gives researchers a detailed look at lakes and reservoirs in a U.S. watershed.

The Ohio River Basin stretches from Pennsylvania to Illinois and contains a system of reservoirs, lakes, and rivers that drains an area almost as large as France. Researchers with the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) mission, a collaboration between NASA and the French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales), now have a new tool for measuring water levels not only in this area, which is home to more than 25 million people, but in other watersheds around the world as well.

Since early 2023, SWOT has been measuring the height of nearly all water on Earth’s surface — including oceans, lakes, reservoirs, and rivers — covering nearly the entire globe at least once every 21 days. The SWOT satellite also measures the horizontal extent of water in freshwater bodies. Earlier this year, the mission started making validated data publicly available.

“Having these two perspectives — water extent and levels — at the same time, along with detailed, frequent coverage over large areas, is unprecedented,” said Jida Wang, a hydrologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a member of the SWOT science team. “This is a groundbreaking, exciting aspect of SWOT.”

Researchers can use the mission’s data on water level and extent to calculate how the amount of water stored in a lake or reservoir changes over time. This, in turn, can give hydrologists a more precise picture of river discharge — how much water moves through a particular stretch of river.

The visualization above uses SWOT data from July 2023 to November 2024 to show the average water level above sea level in lakes and reservoirs in the Ohio River Basin, which drains into the Mississippi River. Yellow indicates values greater than 1,600 feet (500 meters), and dark purple represents water levels less than 330 feet (100 meters). Comparing how such levels change can help hydrologists measure water availability over time in a local area or across a watershed.

Complementing a Patchwork of Data

Historically, estimating freshwater availability for communities within a river basin has been challenging. Researchers gather information from gauges installed at certain lakes and reservoirs, from airborne surveys, and from other satellites that look at either water level or extent. But for ground-based and airborne instruments, the coverage can be limited in space and time. Hydrologists can piece together some of what they need from different satellites, but the data may or may not have been taken at the same time, or the researchers might still need to augment the information with measurements from ground-based sensors.

Even then, calculating freshwater availability can be complicated. Much of the work relies on computer models. “Traditional water models often don’t work very well in highly regulated basins like the Ohio because they have trouble representing the unpredictable behavior of dam operations,” said George Allen, a freshwater researcher at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and a member of the SWOT science team.

Many river basins in the United States include dams and reservoirs managed by a patchwork of entities. While the people who manage a reservoir may know how their section of water behaves, planning for water availability down the entire length of a river can be a challenge. Since SWOT looks at both rivers and lakes, its data can help provide a more unified view.

“The data lets water managers really know what other people in these freshwater systems are doing,” said SWOT science team member Colin Gleason, a hydrologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

While SWOT researchers are excited about the possibilities that the data is opening up, there is still much to be done. The satellite’s high-resolution view of water levels and extent means there is a vast ocean of data that researchers must wade through, and it will take some time to process and analyze the measurements.

More About SWOT

The SWOT satellite was jointly developed by NASA and CNES, with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the UK Space Agency. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed for the agency by Caltech in Pasadena, California, leads the U.S. component of the project. For the flight system payload, NASA provided the Ka-band radar interferometer (KaRIn) instrument, a GPS science receiver, a laser retroreflector, a two-beam microwave radiometer, and NASA instrument operations. The Doppler Orbitography and Radioposition Integrated by Satellite system, the dual frequency Poseidon altimeter (developed by Thales Alenia Space), the KaRIn radio-frequency subsystem (together with Thales Alenia Space and with support from the UK Space Agency), the satellite platform, and ground operations were provided by CNES. The KaRIn high-power transmitter assembly was provided by CSA.

IMAGE: Data from the SWOT satellite was used to calculate average water levels for lakes and reservoirs in the Ohio River Basin from July 2023 to November 2024. Yellow indicates values greater than 1,600 feet (500 meters) above sea level; dark purple represents water levels less than 330 feet (100 meters).

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

[hanukkahbingo]

Panfandom Hanukkah Bingo

WHAT: A fanworks bingo celebrating Jewish (and Jew-ish) characters across any and all fandoms. Write fanfiction and/or create graphics (moodboards, edits, vids, whatever you like) to fill prompts on this overall bingo card. During the 8 nights of Hanukkah, submit your fills to the AO3 collection and/or post them on Tumblr to be reblogged and added to the Bingo Masterpost.

WHY: Jewish characters and Jewish fans are often overlooked or erased during the Winter Holiday Season in favor of “Secret Santa” exchanges, Christmas-themed fics, and the idea that ~Hanukkah is Jewish Christmas~ (which spoiler for all fics in this bingo: it’s not). This panfandom Bingo challenge is to celebrate Hanukkah on its own terms and give Jewish characters and fans a place to breathe. :)

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