#kipuka

[augustinel]

My recent art and shining new inspiration ✨ Eliot Huang Xing ~

[fridurwrites]

How To Survive Dark Bramble - Chapter 1 (Rescue via Kidnapping)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It's not like there's much left to see. Dark Bramble looms at the edge of Kipuka's solar system, an icy reminder that even without the supernova, planets can die violent and senseless deaths. It's a silent monument to a lost world. No signals drift from its glowing maw, nothing leaves its embrace. It's terrifying. Kip goes anyway, because when you've explored almost everything else there is to see (at least, you think you have) and death has claimed you enough for even fatal injuries to feel like mild annoyances, it's nice to still feel terrified. It's nice to feel wonder, too. Wonder like they feel when a figure they could never have anticipated finds them, and the system shows them that it still has a few secrets left to unveil.

[sparradraws]

Joined the Draw a Tag game over on Wajas; this is Kipuka for Otterwatt! 

[fr-outfits]

by Kipuka

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[earthstory]

New video from Paradise Helicopters flies over the Pu’u O’o lava fields from Kilauea’s ongoing East Rift Zone eruption, finds skylights and tumuli (all labeled and explained!) and sees fresh lava burning its way through one of the only remaining forested areas on this part of the slope (this eruption has gone on so long that it has devoured most of the tree-filled areas between the crater and the ocean).

[earthstory]

A kipuka on the Moon

Kipuka is a Hawaiian term for a common occurrence on the slopes of the active volcanoes. Trees grow all over the island of Hawaii, including on the active parts of the volcano. In those areas, those trees will occasionally be overrun by streams of lava which burn away the vegetation where it flows. But, the lava doesn’t cover the entire area; it moves in channels and flows downhill to the ocean. Consequently, eruptions commonly leave behind a lush oasis of vegetation surrounded on all sides by barren lava flows called a kipuka.

There aren’t trees on the Moon, but there is topography. Craters and volcanic flows create high ground around which lava can flow.

This image shows a lunar kipuka; an area of the land surrounded by younger lava. The large crater in this photo has been breached at its left-hand side by lavas from Mare Imbrium, one of the large lava fields on the Moon’s near-side.

There is even a shoreline preserved in this crater, best-expressed on the inside of the crater at the right-hand side of the image as a line parallel to the crater rim.

This image was taken by the LROC instrument, the high-resolution camera on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. The crater itself is ~2.7 kilometers wide and was originally about 500 meters deep; much of that depth has been filled in by the lava flow.

-JBB

Image credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?%2Farchives%2F787-Lunar-Kipuka.html

[cassiopeia-duh]

Kipuka; in the middle of a lava field in Kona, Hawaii, a forest full of native birds lies unscathed by lava. The flowers, weeds, and birds that bloom, grow, and live here all exist in a hue of deep red similar to that of lava flow that spared them.

How poetic that they bloom in reds. So vibrant against the stark black of the lava rock and gray misty skies which give life to layers of pillowy green moss that coat the un even ground of thick ripples of hardened lava frozen in time forever.

[kataibusaibiin]

Kiaikekahaukani: #Lā82 #MaunaKea: #Lā127 This past week/end was a turning point for the kia'i here at Bachman Hall, UH Mānoa. If you're on-island, please come join us tonight (Friday, 4:45-pau) for sunset 'aha and potluck to celebrate as a community!

See Update below, via Kia’i ke Kahaukani:   Aloha mai e nā hoa welo like. Mahalo nui to all of our ʻohana last week who donated their time, presence, and aloha during an emotionally charged situation for students at UH-Mānoa. Prior to this weekend the University locked students behind the glass doors, leaving them unable to join the ‘aha. This past weekend, with your support and assistance, the front doors to Bachman Hall were kept open. The kīpuka of aloha ʻāina here at Bachman was created by and for students to serve all of us impacted by the ongoing violence perpetrated by the University through its involvement in the TMT project. With your continued support we are resolved to keep the doors to healing open so that we can mālama each other and our communities. Na wai lā hoʻi ka ʻole o ke akamai, he alahele i maʻa i ka hele ʻia e oʻu mau kūpuna. Our kūpuna demonstrate daily the ability to hold steadfast in kapu aloha, to heal through community, to unify in pule while facing difficulties of both the environment as well as the occupying government. We will ensure that these doors remain open in order to support each other and the communities that we represent. To celebrate our community at Bachman and this season of change, we invite our ʻohana to join us tomorrow (Friday, 4:45pm-pau) in mele, manaʻo, and meaʻai. Students will provide ʻawa and limited food, potluck item encouraged if can. E nā hoapili e kūpaʻa mau, e holomua aku, e aloha nō kākou.