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Low-interest Joan 💐 Mask up

Welp, I'm unable to update the map today 🙃 but updates from energy bodies suggest that power has returned to normal in Portugal:

- e-redes.pt/en/news/2025/04/29/

- ren.pt/en-gb/media/news/nation

Spain is coming back online, too, while the impacts across both countries may take time to ease in various sectors (e.g. public transport, airports).

What a palaver. ⚡

www.e-redes.ptPower grid restored to 100% and standardized | E-REDES
#BlackOut#Apagão#Apagón
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Maps and Monsters: Why and how did sea monsters find their way into the art of cartography?
maevenolan.com/blog-1/l59yz0t4

[...] This quote from Beowulf (975-1025) is representative of the fears that mankind held for centuries regarding the oceans. Such long-held trepidation regarding water make it no surprise that images of sea monsters found their way onto some of the earliest maps mankind created.

Maeve Silvia Mulligan NolanMaps and Monsters: Why and how did sea monsters find their way into the art of cartography? — Maeve Silvia Mulligan NolanWritten and researched by Dr Maeve Sisi Silvia Mulligan Nolan (PhD Obtained in Art History and Archaeology of Africa and Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) “The water was infested with all kinds of reptiles. There were writhing sea-dragons and monsters slouchin
#cartography#maps#medieval
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Phil Stooke

These are the final close-ups of this sequence of Lunokhod 2 maps. At left, a complex bit of driving along the edge of the trough. Some of the maneuvers may be for making stereoscopic pairs of panoramas showing the opposite side of the trough. At right, the last drive and final rover position. It seems the end was sudden and did not leave time for the laser reflector to be pointed at Earth. Its reflections are very weak. #maps #moon #luna21 #lunokhod2

Two detailed maps of parts of the Lunokhod 2 traverse. Left: a complex path along the side of the trough, maybe designed for stereo imaging of the far side of the trough. Right: the last drive and final position of the rover.
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