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20 gru 2023 · NASA's image library, images.nasa.gov, consolidates imagery and videos in one searchable location. Users can download content in multiple sizes and resolutions and see the metadata associated with images, including EXIF/camera data on many images.
11 wrz 2017 · From breathtaking sunsets, sunrises, rainbows and thunderclouds, to enchanting full moons and highways of stars – Africa truly has the most magical skies. A canvas silhouetting the wildlife walking home after a long day, the African skies exhibit a wonderful phenomenon.
Numerous fires create a smoky pall over the skies of western Africa. The image above was acquired on December 10, 2015. (NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using VIIRS data from Suomi NPP.)
African Folktale. Many years ago, the sun and water were great friends, and they both lived on the earth togther. The sun very often used to visit the water, but the water never returned the visits. At last the sun asked the water why he never visited.
5 paź 2022 · Culture. Here are some fascinating African myths about the Sun and Moon. Sun and moon. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Tdadamemd. At night, when one spots the stars beautifully scattered across...
The Venda spoke picturesquely of mutsha-kavhili, “the two dawns”. The Moon – iNyanga to the Xhosa and Zulu, Nwedzi to the Shona and Venda, and Ngwedi to the Sotho and Tswana – is probably the most obvious feature in the night sky, because of its size, brightness, and changing appearance (phases).
Here, brightly colored silk-screened, flat, and elemental depictions of sun and moon, water and sky contrast sharply with pure white intaglio prints of water’s “people”—a seahorse, a shrimp, a crab, an octopus, and a nautilus—to bring the tale vividly to life.
