Diego Ortega

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🛰️🪐Space engineer 📷🦕🐦Amateur photographer, paleoartist and naturalist Posts in 🇪🇸,🇬🇧 🌐Thionville, 🇫🇷

Lineart of prehistoric fish: Brembodus, Macromesodon and Gyrodus

H-IIB rocket on its launch pad. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Shinntarou

JWST being transported across the Centre Spatial Guyanais. Source: ESA/CNES/Arianespace

Soyuz rocket on the launchpad of Gagarin's Start. Below the rocket there is a big trench. Source: NASA/Bill Ingalls

SLS rocket in the launch pad before Artemis II. In the foreground, a roseate spoonbill. Source: NASA/Bill Ross

Painting of 4 spaceports and their corresponding landscapes
Top left: Kennedy Space Center (US), with SLS rocket, wetland birds and alligator
Top right: Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan), with a Soyuz rocket, bactrian camels and saiga
Bottom left: Centre Spatial Guyanais (French Guiana), with the Ariane 5 rocket, vutures and macaws
Bottom right: Tanegashima Space Center (Japan), with the Hii-B rocket, a sea turtle, seabirds and some fish

Crop fields with baled hay

Red kite (Milvus milvus) in flight

Valle Gran Rey, La Gomera

Place des Étoiles in Schengen, with several European flags and some monuments in the background

Orchid purple flowers

Statue of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus in a wall

Mountain landscape in the Pyrenees

Reconstrucción de Gorgonavis alcyone, un ave prehistórica de cráneo alargado

Wild flower in the field

Male mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) in a flowery field

Life reconstruction of the extinct bird Gorgonavis

Nativity scene in the Sagrada Familia basilica

Embalse del Grado, reservoir next to the village

Restoration of Gorgonavis alcyone, 2026

Gorgon depicted in an ancient Greek amphora. Source: user ArchaiOptix, Wikimedia Commons

Restoration of Gorgonavis in its environment, by Roc Olivé

Known remains from Gorgonavis. Source: https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/182813/

Life restoration of Gorgonavis alcyone, an extinct bird with a long snout. Here reconstructed with a feather crest

Pair of marmots (Marmota marmota) out of their burrow

Mountain forest, mostly formed by firs and beeches

Road leading to the Anayet ski station

Raven (Corvus corax) flying near the summit. It was quite acrobatic, doing swift turns while surrounding us (acrowbatics?)

View of Monte Oroel from the summit

View of the surrounding mountains and hills

Alley in the town of Biescas

Me in the mountains

Pair of goldfinches (Carduelis carduelis) on top of a tree

View of the forest, mostly formed by beeches

Art of Teide National Park biodiversity, by Bernardo Lara. Source: https://www.miteco.gob.es/content/dam/miteco/es/parques-nacionales-oapn/red-parques-nacionales/parques-nacionales/pnteideespanol2015_tcm30-68648.pdf

Ordovician creatures known from Cabañeros National Park (Spain)

Wild flower next to a crop field

Two white storks (Ciconia ciconia). One of them is landing on a lamp post, scaring another one away

Sketch page

View of Port des Canonge, with the Permian red beds next to the water. Source: Marían Tur, Wikimedia Commons

Museum building. Source: Joan Gené, Wikimedia Commons

Reconstruction of Permian Mallorca ecosystem, by Hank Sharpe
Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103948

Fossil, tracks and skeletal of Tramuntanasaurus. Source: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1498

Early and Mid Permian formations from Mallorca, showing their palaeoenvironmental interpretations
Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103948

Location of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands during the Early Permian. Tracksites known from the period are also displayed.
Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103948

Drawing showing the biodiversity from the Permian of Mallorca, in particular from the Port des Canonge Formation. From left to right, and from top to bottom:
- Shoot and tree of a plant, possibly Feysia sp.
- Storm clouds bring pouring rain to a river valley at the end of the dry season
- Conchostracans similar to Triops (representing the ichnogenus Cruziana) move through the bottom of a pool
- A mother varanopid and her offspring (representing the ichnogenus Dromopus) rest on a branch
- A roachoid insect comes out from a burrow (representing the ichnofossil Palaeophycus tubularis)
- Tramuntanasaurus tiai eating some horsetails
- Early synapsids of different types (representing the ichnigenus Dimetropus) gather at a waterhole in the dry season
- A gorgonopsian tries to catch a Tramuntanasaurus, with the latter escaping by shedding its tail
- A large moradisaurine walks through a lush riverside in the rainy season. Smaller reptiles and insects appear nearby

Small flowers on the side of the path

European stonechat (Saxicola rubicola) on top of a branch

White stork (Ciconia ciconia) preening itself on top of a lamp post

Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) between the vegetation

Lineart WIP showing animals from Permian Mallorca

Artemis II launch

SLS rocket at the launch pad - NASA

White stork (Ciconia ciconia) flying over the fields

Tree branch emerging from a pond

Same context as in the previous photo, now with a bigger portion of the sky and the rooftops visible

Two jackdaws and a rook perch on top of an antenna at sunset. Only their silhouettes are visible

Church in Sahagún

House and church tower in Sahagún

Poplar trees growing next to a water channel