Documenting the saltiest pond on Earth
A camera installed above Don Juan Pond in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys took 16,000 images in two months, documenting geological processes in real time. The processes that keep Don Juan Pond liquid in Antarctica could be at work on Mars as well.
Geological Sciences/Brown UniversityHow the world's saltiest pond gets its salt
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147 Don Juan Pond. Pierre Roudier/CC BY 2.0 One of the saltiest bodies of water on the planet lies atop one of the most alienesque corners of the Earth: the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Its. Don Juan ( Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan] ), also known as Don Giovanni ( Italian ), is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. With a salinity level over 40 percent, Don Juan is significantly saltier than most of the other hypersaline lakes around the world. The Dead Sea has a salinity of 34 percent; the Great Salt Lake varies between 5 and 27 percent. Earth's oceans have an average salinity of 3.5 percent. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1. Except Don Juan Pond. Though only about twice the area of an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and barely a foot deep, Don Juan Pond is famous for being the saltiest body of water on the entire planet. It is saltier even than the Dead Sea.. and then see how that compares to what we see on Mars," said Amit Mushkin, a geologist at the University.
Don Juan Teich, die salzhaltigen See der Erde, in der Nähe der See Vanda in der Wright Valley
In English literature, Don Juan, written from 1819 to 1824 by the English poet Lord Byron, is a satirical, epic poem which portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don Juan, not as a womaniser as the character is historically portrayed, but as a victim easily seduced by women. [1] Don Juan Pond is a small and very shallow hypersaline lake in the western end of Wright Valley (South Fork), Victoria Land, Antarctica, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) west from Lake Vanda. It is wedged between the Asgard Range to the south and the Dais Range to the north. On the west end is a small tributary and a rock glacier. Don Juan, fictitious character who is a symbol of libertinism. Originating in popular legend, he was first given literary personality in the tragic drama El burlador de Sevilla (1630; "The Seducer of Seville," translated in The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest ), attributed to the Spanish dramatist Tirso de Molina. Having attempted to ravish Doña Anna, the daughter of the commander of Seville, he is surprised by the father, whom he kills in a duel. A statue of the commander is erected over his tomb. Juan and his cowardly servant Leporello visit the tomb, when the statue is seen to move its head. Juan jestingly invites it to a banquet.
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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge was published by the University of California Press in 1968 as a work of anthropology, though it is now widely considered a work of fiction. [1] [2] It was written by Carlos Castaneda and submitted as his Master's thesis in the school of Anthropology. Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1824 Plot Summary Lord Byron's Don Juan is a satiric poem inspired by the legendary story of Don Juan, the famous womanizer. Byron, however, changes the focus and paints Don Juan as a figure who is easy prey to women's romantic advances. January 22, 1788, London, England Died: April 19, 1824, Missolonghi, Greece (aged 36) Notable Works: "Beppo" "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" "Don Juan" "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" "Giaour, The" "Hours of Idleness" "Lara" "Manfred" "Sardanapalus" "The Bride of Abydos" Unlike the Satanic self-dramatizing that was the source of his fame in the 19th century, in Manfred and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage especially, Don Juan shows Byron at his most self-aware, and the voice of the poem is very close to the voice of his letters.
