NASA has posted an incredible view of the volcano  Sarychev Peak at the Kuril Islands. The image gives a very good perspective of the plume as can only be seen sideways from above. 

More pictures taken by Astronauts here 

Until recently only one meteorite impact crater was known in Norway, namely the Gardnos crater in Hallingdal north west of Oslo. However it is know widely accepted that a second large crater exists: the Ritland crater. The crater is 2.5km in diameter and about 300m deep. It is most likely made by a meteorite of 100m diameter that impacted about 600million years ago. The crater was discovered by Norwegian geologistFridtjof Riis of the International Research Institute of Stavanger AS. For more information here.

It is soon 40 years since one of the greates technological feats of mankind, the lunar landing, was accomplished.The next step is to go to Mars. This is of course incredibly much more difficult and it has been talked about for decades. Read this article to know more.

For background of the famous photograph, or rather photographs, of the tank-man at Tiananmen in Beijing 20 years ago, June 5 1989 read this article from the New York times blogg.

New photos posted at Panoramio.com showing more parts of the Aker River here

I have created a new set at Flickr named man-made

What makes us human

Even though the chimpanzees and the  humans have 95% or more of their DNA in common there are subtle differences. This article shed some light on that.

Look here to see what can be done using a Canon 5D MkII in the hands of the right person. The image shown the space shuttle in transit in front of the sun.

I now have photos also posted to Flickr: 

www.rondanebilder.com has received a small update of photographs from April.