Titan, meanwhile, has rivers, clouds, rains and lakes of methane.In other star systems, moons have many advantages as abodes for life.
If you look closely in the left hand corner, I can just be distinguished from the blue blue brilliance of all this land, a tiny figure, no bigger than a grass blade, a shadow hugged by shadows, heading home after a long walk nowhere, encircled by a halo of rocks, trees, crops, rivers, clouds — by every blessed thing conspiring together to save my life.
"Unicorns, ice cream, black internet, goth for life, lust for life, cursors, butterflies, vampires, power supplies, charge stations, rivers, clouds... everything happens #IRL," Emilie Gervais was able to explain to the Creators Project, as the digital "happening" wasn't only presented online but also physically, allowing the fair's public to witness their online interactions in the flesh. .
There's a full moon, mists rise off the river like clouds, and the only sounds puncturing the silence are mobile phone conversations checking tides and comparing hauls.
The discovery of the tail on the ocean floor earlier this week was a major breakthrough in the slow-moving search that has been hampered by seasonal rains, choppy seas and silt from river runoff clouding the water.
Ahmed Emad Eldin, an 18-year-old, hitherto unknown Egyptian digital artist, has provided the imagery of a man punting on a "river" of clouds towards the glow of the sun, which will adorn The Endless River, a largely instrumental album, released in November.
On tabletops and caskets, slices of agate become rivers and clouds.
The panorama depicted the soaring skylines of China's great cities, interlaced with the mountains, rivers and clouds beloved of traditional painters.
The path winds along the river Rečina: butterflies cloud the air, deer spring away through meadows, and frogs freckle the ponds and puddles.
He looks, almost stupefied – and as if seeing it for the first time – at a tree, or a river, or a cloud, and asks: why does this exist?
