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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Selene, they say, fell in love with this Endymion and bore him fifty daughters. [...] The folk of Herakleia say that he retired to Mount Latmos and give him honour, there being a shrine of Endymion on Latmos."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.1.4

🏛️ #Eros, #Selene & #Endymion, circa 3th century BCE, from ancient Dimitrias, Magnesia, now at the National Museum of Athens

@antiquidons @mythology #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology

Saving Lives, One Pixel at a Time - End Users Share Their Stories
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disasterscharter.org/news/savi <-- shared technical article
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“For 25 years the International Charter has organized the distribution and use of satellite and remotely sensed data for response to natural disasters across the globe, informing countless applications where timely acquisition of remote sensing data literally...saves lives…”
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #webmapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #satellite #imagery #risk #hazard #global #emergencymanagement #naturaldisaster #monitoring #response #planning #management #landsat #hurricane #cyclone #climatechange #extremeweather #flood #flooding #city #urban #crops #agriculture #foodsecurity #infrastructure #emergencyresponse #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal
@InternationalCharterSpaceAndMajorDisasters | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | @earth Resources Observation And Science #EROS

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"She lay down at his side and conceived #Eros, who partly because he is naturally a lover of the beautiful, and because #Aphrodite is herself beautiful, and also because he was born on her birthday, is her follower and attendant."
Plato, Symposium 178

🏛 Aphrodite, Eros, and Erotes, Roman fresco, #Pompeii

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #GreekRomanArt #FrescoFriday

Happy #ValentinesDay!
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Cyprus-born Kythereia [Aphrodite], weaver of wiles, to honour you Zeus gave you this special gift. For you overwhelm the sound minds of men and there is no one strong or clever enough to escape you."
Theognis, Fragment 1.1386

🏛 #Aphrodite on a date with #Adonis, her son #Eros bringing them snacks! Red figure bell krater 370-360 BCE

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology

Collaboration Advances Elevation Mapping – USGS EROS And NGTOC Work Together To Map A 1 Metre Digital Elevation Model For A Watershed
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usgs.gov/centers/eros/news/col <-- shared technical article
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doi.org/10.5066/P1CEPE2M <-- USGS data release, Lower Androscoggin Watershed Hydrologic Unit 8 Seamless 1-m DEM Pilot, 2013 to 2020
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #LiDAR #water #hydrology #3dep #3dhp #3dtnm #NGTOC #spatialanalysis #elevation #DEM #EROS #seamlessonemeter #Androscoggin #ME #maine #research #integration #watershed #opendata
@USGS | @USGS_EROS

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Gods and men call Aphrodite [...] Kyprogenes because she was born in billowy Kypros, and Philommedes (Genital-Loving) because sprang from the member. And with her went #Eros, and comely #Himeros followed her at her birth."
Hesiod, Theogony 176

🏛 Statuette of #Aphrodite in a sea shell, Gypsum, 1st century CE- 2nd century CE, Necropolis of Pantikapaion

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #FannyFriday