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"Earth Science Picture of the Day" Website If your surfing of the internet for Earth science-related websites hasn’t uncovered Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD), you definitely should check it out. About two weeks ago, I stumbled on it and uploaded a photo of Ship Rock along with a geological description from my recent blog post of August 2012. Today (9/12/2012), it went live and is the “EPOD of the Day.”

EPOD features over 3,000 images contributed by its viewers. The site claims to “highlight the diverse processes and phenomena which shape our planet and our lives.” A new image adorns the site literally every day!

EPOD collects and archives photos, imagery, graphics, and even artwork with short explanatory captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. EPOD is a service of NASA's Earth Science Division, the EOS Project Science Office (at ) and the Universities Space Research Association. They invite the community to contribute digital imagery, short captions and relevant links.

The vast collection of photos is divided into forty-two categories such as glaciers, rainbows, weather, geology, wildlife, and night sky. Their search utility is quite effective, and I have found the photographs generally to be very good and extremely creative. The write-ups are relatively short, but are well-written and highly descriptive.

You can even vote for your “Favorite EPOD’s.” After the votes have been tallied, the winners are shown for each month from the previous year.

It's definitely worth a look. Here’s a link to EPOD: http://epod.usra.edu/blog. Upload some photos! Cast your vote!

Posted by Dr. Jack Share at 5:26 AM Labels: Shiprock


 My Ten Most Popular Posts Some Stuff About Me Pageviews Since January 2011 New Followers Are Welcome! My Blog Archive By Year and Month Follow "Written In Stone" by Email Index of Topics to My Posts Blogs and Websites I Follow Links of geological and paleontological terms My Favorite Geological and Paleontological Sources of Reference The sublime Shiprock diatreme in northwestern New Mexico The Cockscomb at the East Kaibab Monocline of south-central Utah The Entrada Sandstone of Devil's Garden at Escalante Canyons, Utah Aerial View of the Waterpocket Fold monocline of Capitol Reef, Utah The Permian Red Beds of Dead Horse Point, Canyonlands, Utah The Great Range of the Adirondacks from Big Slide, NY Engineer Mountain, The San Juan Mountains, CO