NASA named the landing site for the Mars rover mission after science fiction author Octavia E. Butler.
As they say on their Image Gallery site:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing’, NASA, 2021.”The landing location is marked
It’s an avocado, an aguacate, also known as an alligator pear in English and a “lawyer pear” in Dutch. This is a Taft variety, an ancestor of the Lula … Read the rest “Science Art: Persea: Taft, by Royal Charles Steadman, 1914.”
From the Library of Congress, we find a diagram of astrophysics equipment from the 19th century. It’s not a telescope. It’s a device designed to disprove … Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram of interferometer and four mirrors mounted on stone floating in mercury…, 1887”
As most folks know, today’s English bulldog is an animal that has been, as they say, “overbred.” They have beautiful temperaments as a rule, and can barely breathe, … Read the rest “Science Art: Leavitt Bulldog body diagram, 2013”
Next week, on February 18, this little chopper will touch down on Mars with the Perseverance rover. Then, a little while later, it’ll take off for a few seconds. Then a few more. Then… Read the rest “Science Art: Ingenuity Mars helicopter, by NASA/JPL-Caltech”
Pulleys and rope, arranged to make lifting heavy weights easier. I’ve been messing around with boats lately, lowering a 30-foot mast with a lot of help. Pulleys … Read the rest “Science Art: Tackles, 1905.”
Listen!
This was how people catalogued birdsongs in the 1930s, with a giant acoustic dish. And then they transferred them to phonograph discs, so everyone could listen.… Read the rest “Science Art: Hunting with a Sound Camera, by William Vogt, 1933.”
This is not an alien forest. It is also not a picture of the COVID19 virus. It’s an illustration from 2016 of another coronavirus, and specifically of the spike proteins… Read the rest “Science Art: Coronavirus spike protein structure, by David Veesler, University of Washington,2016”
On May 25, 2010 at 17 :35 UTC, this was the weather off the North Pacific island called Isla Socorro: Partly cloudy with scattered spirals.
The interesting thing about truly… Read the rest “Science Art: Cloud Vortices off Isla Socorro (Detail) by NASA Goddard Photo and Video”
Handsome field crickets.
That’s not a name for them, just me admiring them. Gryllus is a genus of field crickets. Once, they were all put in the same species, but then people started… Read the rest “Science Art: Gryllus: Gryllus formosus, Gryllus hirtipes, Gryllus trifasciatus.”
Where the meteors come from in August and November, as pictured in A new astronomy for beginners, 1898, as found on archive.org.
Something about this diagram reminds me… Read the rest “Science Art: Perihelion Parts of Orbits of the August and November Meteor-showers”
This is a crinoid, a cousin to sea urchins, sea cucumbers and starfish. I suppose some of them have stalks like sea anemones, but these ones don’t! The image is from The Unstalked Crinoids… Read the rest “Science Art: Lamprometra protectus, ventral view of a specimen with 23 arms from Stat. 125., 1918”
As described on Wikimedia Commons (who got this diagram from the British Library), the image was “taken from page 100 of ‘Grundzüge der mathematischen Geographie… Read the rest “Science Art: In s is das Centrum fur den Meridian ANQ, 1857”
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A scorpionfly from the Miocene shales of Colorado, as the caption says in the Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution from June 30, 1953. I found… Read the rest “Science Art: Holcorpa Maculosa Scudder”
These are prehistoric bone tools used by prehistoric humans, or “Cultural additions from the double grave of Oberkasssel,” as the title reads in German.… Read the rest “Science Art: Kulturbeigaben des Doppelgrabes von Oberkasssel, 1919.”
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