APOD 4.4 and zooniverse progress

zooniverse: Continued working in Galaxy zoo Hubble, classifying galaxies. Most of which are smooth ellipses but I occasionally find an interesting spiral galaxy. No work done for zooniverse outside of class time. I may or may not switch to a different zooniverse project soon. We'll see.

Now for a view from Everest. This is probably the only APOD I've done of anything under Earth's atmosphere. Any planet-side images I've chosen are from other worlds (or artists' renditions of thereof). But to say that this view is nice is a bit of an understatement.

The clouds around the mountain look like fog from this vantage point, 8.85 Kilometers up. This altitude is about the maximum that any international aircraft will reach. The air is surely thin, but what a view of the mountains. I wouldn't hop on down so quickly though. In its country, Nepal, the mountain is referred to as Sagarmontha, or "the forehead of the sky" which sounds rather fitting.