A still life from the NASA Great Images collection.
This was a prototype of the craft that went on to explore the outer reaches of the solar system, then become a machine consciousness… Read the rest “Science Art: Voyager Spacecraft During Vibration Testing, 1977”
This is Discoaster surculus. Remember last week, that ocean picture that showed millions of coccolithophores floating in the ocean, sucking up CO2 and making future … Read the rest “Science Art: Discoaster surculus.”
This image, a recent Picture of the Day at NASA’s Earth Observatory, takes a big view of something very small – lots and lots and lots of single-celled organisms multiplying… Read the rest “Science Art: Barents Sea in Bloom (BarentsSea_TMO_2009231)”
A gorgeous vintage diagram of NASA’s deep space probe’s trajectory.
The NASA image archive page says:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Pioneer F/G Jupiter Missions, 1970.”This image, drawn in 1970, is an artist’s rendering
These are the volumes of the hand, Babelfish tells me… although “baender” also means “bands” (like the FM radio band), or ligaments.
Image found in Wikimedia… Read the rest “Science Art: Baender der Hand, Meyers Blitz-Lexikon, 1932”
In the good old days, computers looked like this. “Computer” was a job, not a tool, and it was often done by a woman who was quick with figures.
These computers… Read the rest “Science Art: Some NACA Muroc personnel with snowman, 1949.”
On July 22, 1969, when Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong were on their way home after going as far away as anyone had ever gone, this is what home looked like.… Read the rest “Science Art: Planet Earth, Seen by the Apollo 11.”
This is a Saturn V rocket, the largest, heaviest vehicle ever to hurl itself from our small ball of mud into the vastness of space.
At the time the photographer is snapping… Read the rest “Science Art: The Apollo 11 Launch.”
This is a fossilized insect, one of the Buprestidae (or Splendor Beetles or Jewel Beetles, from the collection of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.
Splendor… Read the rest “Science Art: Prachtkäfer aus der Grube Messel (Splendor Beetle of the Messel Pit)”
Don’t let this happen to you.
This is the aphis wolf, or aphid lion, or, in other words, either the larva of the much less-threateningly named ladybug or lacewing.
This particular one looks like it’s a lacewing,… Read the rest “Science Art: Aphis Wolf, from Webster’s New International”
This is Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons that might harbor life. That nearly geometric blue pattern on its surface is called “tiger striping,”… Read the rest “Science Art: Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn’s Enceladus, by Cassini.”
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This is the Japanese lunar probe Kayuga (Selene) crashing into the Moon.
More specifically, this is a 3D rendering of data sent by the probe as it ended its mission … Read the rest “Science Art: 3D movie taken by the Terrain Camera (TC) of KAGUYA (SELENE) during its maneuvered falling to the Moon.), Japanese Space Agency JAXA.”
On September 15, 2006, the Cassini Space Probe had its historic rendezvous with Saturn, giving us – five days later – the first up-close look at the… Read the rest “Science Art: Sunrise Over Saturn and its Rings, W00018160.jpg, 2006”
Gustave Whitehead was a Bavarian immigrant to Connecticut who in all likelihood made a steam-powered machine fly for more than half a mile in 1899 – not only a longer distance than … Read the rest “Science Art: Gustave Whitehead on the #21, by Dick Howell”
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