God, the Creator -- The Works of His Hands

GODThe

Creator

GODThe

Creator

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth

Genesis 1:1

Iguazu Falls, Brazil

Taller than Niagara Falls, twice as wide with 275 cascades spread in a horseshoe shape over nearly two miles of the Iguazu River, IGUAZÚ FALLS are the result of a volcanic eruption which left yet another large crack in the earth. Four times the width of Niagara Falls, Iguazu Falls are divided by various islands into separate waterfalls. During the rainy season of November - March, the rate of flow may reach 450,000 cubic feet (12,750 cubic m) per second.

Iguazu Falls, Brazil

GRAND CANYON, AZ – is a steep gorge by the Colorado River, AZ, this has the most enjoyable scenery. It is 277 miles in length, 4 to 18 miles in width and about a mile in depth.

CANADIAN ROCKIES: Top natural wonders of the world, internationally renowned for the stunning scenery, the sparklingly clean air, and the quiet of unspoiled wilderness. This is as close as it gets to paradise on earth.

CANADIAN ROCKIES: Top natural wonders of the world, internationally renowned for the stunning scenery, the sparklingly clean air, and the quiet of unspoiled wilderness. This is as close as it gets to paradise on earth.

Canadian Rockies

The VICTORIA FALLS or Mosi-oa-Tunya (the Mist that Thunders) is a waterfall located in southern Africa on the borders of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Zambezi River serves as the fall's water source. With the collective height and width of the falls, it is attributed as the largest sheet of falling water in the world.

A natural icon of Australia, AYERS ROCK (also known as Uluru) is one of the largest monoliths in the world. The sandstone formation, which appears to change colors with different amounts of light, was once an island in a large sea. It rises 1,142 feet from the desert floor and has a circumference of about 6 miles; much more of its mass remains underground.

THE AMAZON RAIN FOREST covers more than 5.5 million square km (1.4 billion acres) in nine countries, and is the largest and most species-rich jungle in the world. The Amazon river is the world’s largest, with a total flow greater than the next top 10 rivers worldwide combined.

The world’s biggest coral reef THE GREAT BARRIER REEF is scheme and is a collection of over 2,910 personal reefs and 900 small islands that extends for 2,600 kilometers over an area of roughly 344,410 square kilometers in Australia.

GREAT BARRIER REEF

MT. EVEREST, HIMALAYASRenowned highest mountain on Earth the Mount Everest is the peak that makes the boundary connecting China and Nepal. Its peak being nearly 8,844m high – and it

is still growing by a predictable two to five millimeters each year! 

AURORA BOREALIS

What is an aurora?

Aurora is a luminous glow of the upper atmosphere which is caused by energetic particles that enter the atmosphere from above. These particles are electrons and protons that are energized; this energization process draws its energy from the interaction of the Earth's magnetosphere with the solar wind.

AURORA BOREALIS

Photosynthesis

Pitcher Plant Venus Fly Trap

Sundew Bladder Wort

Four (4) OceansOne (1) Moon

Two (2) Polar CapsSeven (7) Continents

Earth’s MoonThe Earth is unique among the planets in having a large satellite, the Moon, which, relative to the Earth, has the largest mass of any satellite - parent system.

The Moon affects the oceanic tides

The Moon helps stabilize our planet so that Earth’ axis of rotation stays in the same direction.We had much less climatic change than if the Earth had been alone.

The Earth's rotation is slowed through interactions with the Moon. If the Moon had never existed, the Earth would be spinning much faster. In fact, our day would probably only be about 6 hours long! The fast rotation rate would lead to faster winds and stronger storms.

Lunar calendar is based on the Moon’s rotation which is 28 days from new to full moon. Agriculture was grown and harvested during certain phases of the moon.

The Moon’s gravity affects the Earth’s crust. The Moon helps heat the Earth and influences the movements of the tectonic plates. No other planet in our solar system has tectonic plates.

Global Tectonic Plates

Polar Ice Caps

Southern Polar Ice CapNorthern Polar Ice Cap

These ice caps, acting as giant reflectors, bounce the sun's heating rays back into space and helps keep the Earth cool.

If they melt, it would reveal less-reflective ocean water and land as the earth absorbs more sunlight and grows hotter.

Ocean Conveyor Belt

The ocean conveyor belt plays a crucial role in helping to shape the Earth's climate by making the Earth's oceans a global system.

The water masses transport both energy (in the form of heat) and matter (solids, dissolved substances and gases) around the globe. As such, the state of the

circulation has a large impact on the climate of the Earth.

Milky Way Galaxy

(as Seen from Earth Patagonia, Argentina)

Image features two irregular satellite

galaxies – the Large and

Small Magellanic Clouds.

Recorded on 1-28-07, the scene

also captures the broad tail and

bright coma of Comet McNaught,

the Great Comet of 2007

Milky Way Galaxy as seen over Kofa Mountains in Arizona, USA, taken May 2003

Milky Way GalaxyCapitol Reef National Park, Utah – May, 2003

The Sun:(An Erupting Solar Prominence from SOHO)

A solar prominence (also known as a filament) is an arc of gas that erupts

from the surface of the Sun.

Sun Storm: Coronal Mass Ejection

Direct light from the sun is blocked in this picture of the event with the sun's relative position and size indicated by a white half circle at bottom center. The field of view

extends 2 million kilometers or more from the solar surface.

On August 27, 1997, twisting magnetic fields propelled this huge eruptive prominence a hundred thousand miles above the Sun's surface. The seething plasma of ionized gases is at a temperature of about 150,000 degrees Fahrenheit and spans over 200,000 miles

(about 27 Earths).

Our Solar System

MERCURY

Length of Year:88 Days

Length of Day:1,407 hours and 30 min(equal to 58.65 hours Earth time, or almost 2 months)

Your Weight on Mercury:150 lb person would weigh 57 lbs

VENUS

Length of Year:225 Days

Length of Day:5,832 hours (Retrograde)(equal to 243 hours Earth time, or 8 months)

Your Weight on Venus:150 lb person would weigh 136 lbs

MARS

Length of Year:687 Days

Length of Day:24 hours and 37 min

Your Weight on Mars:150 lb person would weigh 57 lbs

Jupiter

Length of Year:4,331 Days (roughly 12 Earth years)

Length of Day:9 hours and 56 minutes

Your Weight on Jupiter:150 lb person would weigh 321 lbs

JUPITER

Great Red Spot

Junior Red Spot

The Great Red Spot is a great anti-cyclonic (high pressure) storm akin to a hurricane on Earth, but it is enormous (three Earths would fit within its boundaries) and it has persisted for at least the 400 years. Since it is anti-cyclonic in Jupiter's It’s rotation is counterclockwise, with a period of about 6 days.

Saturn

Length of Year:10,759 Days (29.5 Earth years)

Length of Day:10 hours and 39 min

Your Weight on Saturn:150 lb person would weigh 136 lbs

Uranus

Length of Year:30,687 Days (roughly 84 Earth years)

Length of Day:17 hours and 15 minutes

Your Weight on Uranus:150 lb person would weigh 129 lbs

Why would clouds form a hexagon on SATURN’S NORTH POLE? Nobody is yet sure. Originally discovered during the Voyager flybys of Saturn in the 1980s, nobody has ever

seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System.

The bizarre cloud pattern shown above is an infrared image taken by the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft. The images show the stability of the hexagon even 20 years after Voyager. Movies of Saturn's North Pole

show the cloud structure maintaining its hexagonal structure while rotating. Unlike individual clouds appearing like a hexagon on Earth, the Saturn cloud pattern appears to have six well defined sides of nearly equal

length. Four Earths could fit inside the hexagon.

SATURN’S SOUTH POLEA hurricane-like

storm two-thirds as wide as the Earth

is raging on Saturn's south

pole, new images from the Cassini

spacecraft reveal.

Such clear hurricane-like features have

never before been seen on any other

planet, but scientists are not

sure what is causing them.

The dark eye of the "hurricane"

spans about 8,000 kilometres and is

surrounded by rings of clouds that tower about 30 to

75 kilometres above it.

These eye-wall clouds have never

been seen anywhere other

than on Earth in a hurricane.

But Saturn's storm also differs from hurricanes on

Earth because it is fixed in place -

above the south pole - and is not powered by an ocean, since Saturn is a

gaseous planet.

It is unclear how long the storm has

been there because Cassini has never before seen the pole at

such a high resolution..

NEPTUNE

Length of Year:60,190 Days (roughly 165 Earth years)*each season lasts 40 years

Length of Day:16 hours and 7 min

Your Weight on Neptune:150 lb person would weigh 165 lbs

PLUTO

Length of Year:90,553 Days (roughly 248 Earth years)

Length of Day:153 hours 18 Minutes (Retrograde)(rounded off to 6.5 Earth days)

Your Weight on Pluto:150 lb person would weigh 12 lbs

Eighty-Year Old Mystery in Outer SpaceIn 1918, astronomer Heber Curtis discovered a jet of matter coming from g

alaxy M87 which he described as "a curious straight ray". This jet extends at least 5000 light-years from the nucleus of M87 and is made up of matter

ejected from the galaxy. This phenomena is most likely created by a

SUPER MASSIVE BLACK HOLE!Astronomers believe that the black hole in this galaxy has a mass of approximately 6.4 billion (6.4×109) solar masses.

In pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, the motion of M87's jet was measured at four to six times the speed of light. (The speed of light is 186,282 miles per second. A light year in miles is 5,880,000,000,000 miles, or 5.88 trillion miles.)

Galaxy Centaurus A provides one of the best views to date of the effects of an active super-massive black hole. Opposing jets of high-energy particles

can be seen extending to the outer reaches of the galaxy,

WHAT IS A NEBULA? A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in space. Some nebulas are regions where new stars are being formed, while others are the remains of dead or dying stars. Nebulas come in

many different shapes and sizes.

There are four main types of nebulas:

Planetary nebulas: are created when a star blows off its outer layers after it has run out of fuel to burn. These outer layers of gas expand into space, forming a nebula which is often the shape of a ring or bubble -- called planetary nebulae because they were round like the planets. At the center of a planetary nebula the glowing, left-over central part of the star from which it came can usually still be seen.

Reflection nebulas: is a cloud of gas and dust which does not create its own light, but instead shines by reflecting the light from nearby stars. The brightest reflection nebulas are places where new stars are being formed. Here the gas and dust is thick and shines by the light of new, bright stars.

Emission nebulas: is a cloud of hot, glowing cloud of gas and dust in space. These nebulas absorb the light of nearby stars and reach very high temperatures. The high temperature causes them to glow.

Absorption nebulas: is a cloud of gas and dust which blocks light from the regions of space behind it. As light from space reaches an absorption nebula it is absorbed by it and does not pass through. Absorption nebulas do not create their own light. It is hard to find an absorption nebula unless it is silhouetted against much brighter region of

space.

Dust and Helix Nebula

Horsehead Nebula

Eskimo Nebula

Cat’s Eye Nebula

Witchhead Nebula

Ant Nebula

Snake Nebula

Rosette Nebula

Orion Nebula

Hourglass Nebula

Foxfur Nebula

Cartwheel Galaxy

Andromeda Galaxy

Whale Galaxy

Pinwheel Galaxy

Antennae Galaxy(2 galaxies colliding)

Sombrero Galaxy

Milky Way Galaxy

Rendering of what the Milky

Way Galaxy may look like

from outer space

DEEP SPACE FIELDNASA pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a single spot in the sky for 10

days accumulating and combining many separate exposures to come up with …

This image contains an estimated 10,000 galaxies.

The image covers 11.0 square arcminutes, smaller than a 1 mm by 1 mm square of paper held 1 meter away.

Psalms: 147: 4

He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by

their names.