Capture & Annotate
Jun 4 around 7 pm mountain time
Snow
May 21 around 2 pm mountain time
In Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, plow operators are dealing with some of the deepest snow seen in years. Above, 23 feet of snow on Trail Ridge Road.
What happened to Air France 447?
May 7 around 1 pm mountain time
An epic, 7,500-word feature from Wil S. Hylton in today’s New York Times Magazine details everything currently known about AF447 — from the crash nearly two years ago to last week’s recovery of the flight data recorders. This is an excellent read.
Four hours later, Purcell was up with the sun, and by late morning he was on deck with the crew, watching the Remus bob in the distance. A little after 1 p.m., they pulled the sub onboard and attached two thick cables to upload its data into the computers in the mission-control room. They drew the curtains around the room, so nonscientific crew members could not see in, and yanked the satellite uplink offline, so no one could leak the news. Then they crowded around the computer monitor as the first images of Flight 447 came onscreen: engines, landing gear and sections of fuselage, all unmistakably vivid on the ocean floor. But as they turned the satellite back on and began sending the first photos to air-crash investigators in France, the deeper implications of their discovery were just beginning to surface.
The Situation Room
May 2 around 9 pm mountain time
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. (White House Flickr stream)
