Science Art: Explorer VII
The Explorer VII satellite, carried into space aboard a Juno II rocket on October 13, 1959. It weighed 91.5 pounds, and analyzed Earth’s radiation while looking… Read the rest “Science Art: Explorer VII”
Science Art
Science Art: Gathering the Ripe Pods of the Cacao, or Chocolate, Tree
Scanned from The Encyclopedia of Food (The stories of foods by which we live, how and where they grow and are marketed, their comparative values and how best to use and enjoy… Read the rest “Science Art: Gathering the Ripe Pods of the Cacao, or Chocolate, Tree”
Science Art: Argonauta, Webster’s New International
From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, MA, [found here.]
Science Art: Io before Jupiter.
Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, as seen from the Galileo space probe. The blue background is a false-color overlay of Jupiter’s swirling clouds.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University… Read the rest “Science Art: Io before Jupiter.”
Science Art: Cloud, dust storm over central China, 6-3-2002
Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
Science Art: Polycera atra, Lateral View by F.M. MacFarland.
Some call them sea slugs, but they’re so striking, so sensual, that nudibranch has to be the better term.
Science Art: Aurochs, Webster’s New International
I’m quite fond of the aurochs. As the feared onager was to the domestic donkey, so the aurochs to domestic cattle. Onagers gave their name to a medieval siege weapon; aurochs gave their… Read the rest “Science Art: Aurochs, Webster’s New International”
Science Art: Explorer I
A diagram. An iconic diagram.
This is America’s answer to Sputnik, the Explorer I satellite, launched aboard the Jupiter C rocket on January 31, 1958. This satellite… Read the rest “Science Art: Explorer I”
Science Art: Allosaurus Size Comparison
T. rex gets all the credit, but Allosaurus – all the various species and sizes – was really the large fierce predator to look out for in the Mesozoic era. Some… Read the rest “Science Art: Allosaurus Size Comparison”
New Dawn Fades. (Science Art: Sunrise above the Martian Arctic.)
Look at this:
while listening to this.
In the lifeless, frigid Martian arctic, the sun only sets at the end of summer, then rises, weakly, after 75 minutes.
Like so.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University… Read the rest “New Dawn Fades. (Science Art: Sunrise above the Martian Arctic.)”
Hello, neighbor. (Science Art: First Picture of Likely Planet around Sun-like Star)
For the first time, astronomers have snapped a photo of a planet orbiting a star like our own Sun. That’s it. Not a recreation or illustration. That’s what an alien planet looks… Read the rest “Hello, neighbor. (Science Art: First Picture of Likely Planet around Sun-like Star)”
Glowing under the wires.
Here, this is science art you can try at home: Ordinary fluorescent lights + power lines = GLOW.
Really. You can do it yourself.
That work was inspired by Richard Box, who set up large installations… Read the rest “Glowing under the wires.”
Science Art: “Phases of the Moon” The New Students Reference Work
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.