Announcement – Earthzine Book Reviews
By Paul Racette, posted on October 26th, 2009 in Announcements, Reviews
Have you read a book that would interest other Earthzine readers? We’d like to read your recommendations! They have to be books in print and published (or accessible in digitized format) in English. But they can be fiction or non-fiction, poetry, drama or prose. Thematically, they should address in some way one or more of the nine societal benefit areas of GEOSS: agriculture, biodiversity, climate, disasters, ecosystems, energy, health, water, weather; also oceans and sustainability. Your review should be about 500 words in length, identify title, author, publisher, and publication date. Your review will be published on Earthzine with comments from other readers entered into our blog. Send your reviews to editor@earthzine.org.
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Orbital Sunrise
The Expedition 24 crew on the International Space Station photographed this image of polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by an orbital sunrise. Polar mesospheric, or noctilucent ("night shining"), clouds usually are seen at twilight, following the setting of the sun below the horizon and darkening of Earth's surface. Occasionally the station's orbital track becomes nearly parallel to Earth's day/night terminator for a time, allowing the clouds to be visible to the crew at times other than the usual twilight because of the station's altitude. This photograph shows polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by the rising, rather than setting, sun at center right. Low clouds on the horizon appear yellow and orange, while higher clouds and aerosols are illuminated a brilliant white. Polar mesospheric clouds appear as light blue ribbons extending across the top of the image. The station was located over the Greek island of Kos in the Aegean Sea (near the southwestern coastline of Turkey) when the image was taken at approximately midnight local time. The orbital complex was tracking northeastward, nearly parallel to the terminator, making it possible to observe an apparent "sunrise" located almost due north. A similar unusual alignment of the ISS orbit track, terminator position and seasonal position of Earth's orbit around the sun allowed for this striking imagery of over the Southern Hemisphere. Image Credit: NASA
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Paul et al.:
A book called “Essentials of the Environment” by Oxford University Press aims to bring the key environmental issues of our time (urban sprawl, renewable energy, habitat, and more) into an understandable, illustrated, readable format for undergraduate students and even the general public. Over 200 environmental topics are included. Since I am the author of this book, obviously, the review should be by someone else!