A photo from the NASA PACE Ocean Sciences gallery.
The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission is a satellite observatory created by Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) which… Read the rest “Science Art: Iceland’s Coast Shows Hints of Spring, March 2024”
It’s a map. An old map of an even older city. This is Piranesi’s map of ancient Rome (“and Forma Urbis”) from Le Antichità Romane, a survey of Roman antiquities,… Read the rest “Science Art: Pianta di Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1758.”
This is one of four compass roses created by Vincenzo Coronelli, a 17th-century cartographer. I found them all on Wikimedia Commons, which got them from the French Bibliotheque Nationale… Read the rest “Science Art: From Four Roses des Vents, by Vincenzo Coronelli.”
SONG: “Good People Grow”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Science 29 Sep 2022, “This lagoon is effectively a person, says Spanish law that’s attempting to save it,” … Read the rest “SONG: Good People Grow”
Here’s a picture of a distinctive bit of geography. There are hobbits down there, and members of Split Enz and The Chills, and some of Taika Waititi’s relatives too. Here’s… Read the rest “Science Art: New Zealand’s South Island, by Samantha Cristoforetti, 2022.”
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”
From the USGS:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Aerial image and satellite derived image of Florida lakes, by Richard P. Stumpf, U.S. Geological Survey.”This image is a cropped rendition of two aerial images that demonstrate satellite-derived cyanobacteria concentrations in surface waters from an area
The Age of Exploration included at least a little bit of schoolwork. Here are navigation students learning the ways of current and coastline. Their teacher, Petrus Plancius… Read the rest “Science Art: favorite image Petrus Plancius Instructing Students in the Science of Navigation, early 17th century”
SONG: “Facing North”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Science News, 18 Mar 2019, “People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggest,” as used in the post … Read the rest “SONG: Facing North”
This story has been doing the rounds lately, but the research is available via Science Direct (publishing the Quaternary Science Reviews article). A team of University College of London… Read the rest “The Little Ice Age happened in part because of Europe reaching the New World.”
Polar bears salute the midnight sun as Arctic explorers sail to the horizon.
This image is part of a page of “Cosmic Meteorological Landscapes” that are all… Read the rest “Science Art: The midnight sun, from Atlas zu Alex. V. Humboldt’s Kosmos, 1851.”
The answer, from the US Geological Survey’s Facebook page, is an algal bloom in Lake Erie, as photographed by Landsat:
… Read the rest “Science Art: What is that green gunk?, USGS/NASA, 2 Nov 2017”In late September, Earth-observing satellites
The USGS Earth Explorer program shared these before-and-after pictures of Puerto Rico. The main difference that’s visible from the Landsat 8 satellite… Read the rest “Science Art: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, by Landsat 8”
An illustration illustrating illustration. This is how standardized maps are made. These are the standards.
From The preparation of illustrations for reports of the… Read the rest “Science Art: Water Features and Relief Features, from The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey, with brief descriptions of processes of reproduction, 1920”
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did away with Terra Australis Incognito for good in December 1911. (It was more than a decade later that he went after Santa Claus in his… Read the rest “Science Art: Amundsen Expedition Map of Antarctica, 1911-1912”
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