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A portrait from the final approach. Pluto and Charon display striking color and brightness contrast in this composite image from July 11, showing high-resolution black-and-white LORRI images.
CERRO TOLOLO OBSERVATORY AND STAR TRAILS.
Stars over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile uses the new Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on a telescope there to find the distant dwarf planet 2012 VP 113.
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He's already back on Earth, but I took this picture of Mike doing some science last week because it looked so cool. On the Space Station we have a tight schedule and all of us are always doing different things. Often we don't know exactly what the other person is doing, and it is a testament to the planners at mission control that they ensure we don't get in each other's way all the time. Think of all the constraints, from power, to vibrations, equipment, time and physical space inside the Station, during the week we were 11 of us it was hectic but we also got so much done. Mike was packing the RTPCG-2 experiment for its return to Earth, it involves growing protein crystals in space that are helping researchers identify new ways of making medicine.
Il est déjà de retour sur Terre, mais j'aime bien cette photo de Mike prise la semaine dernière. Je n'avais aucune idée de l'expérience sur laquelle il travaillait : ça reflète bien notre quotidien. À bord de la Station, les plannings sont très serrés et tout le monde s'affaire sans arrêt. Le plus souvent, on ne sait même pas ce que font les autres astronautes. Au centre de contrôle, nos planneurs travaillent durs pour éviter qu'on ait besoin des mêmes équipements ensemble. Et à 11 la semaine dernière, on leur a donné du fil à retordre ! Alimentation électrique, disponibilité des équipements, vibrations ou même simplement le fait d'avoir assez d'espace physique pour travailler : il y a énormément de contraintes à prendre en compte. J'ai fini par lui poser la question : Mike rangeait l'expérience RTPCG-2 avant de la ramener sur Terre. Elle sert à étudie la croissance de cristaux de protéines en impesanteur. À terme, elle devrait aider les chercheurs à découvrir de nouveaux moyens de fabriquer des médicaments.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Life Sciences at Berkeley. . . . Valley Building extension. University of California. Official name: Life Sciences Addition.
~Albert Einstein
We got a macro lens! weee! I'm so happy!
*takes lots of photos*
It's a 100mm f/2.8 Macro
The Ice Man's mule is parked
Outside the bar
Where a man with missing fingers
Plays a strange guitar
- Tom Waits (A Little Rain)
NPS | Margaret Barse
The Exploring Earth Science Teacher Workshop 2017 took place over August 2nd and 3rd. Participating teachers spent two days in Shenandoah National Park learning and participating in activities around the theme "Shenandoah Salamander: Climate Change Casualty or Survivor."
This program is supported by a generous donation from the Shenandoah National Park Association and the Shenandoah National Park Trust.
This is the Saint Louis Science Center main building with its bridge to the McDonnell Planetarium. Thanks for viewing. The dome contains an imax theater.
Back home in Glasgow. It's definitely nice being back, but a lot of things I miss about New Zealand. This is an old shot - no sunsets like this at the moment - reworked for my website.
The rest of my Glasgow shots are here if you are interested
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Science world with fog hiding the tops of the condos in the background.
Other Photo Gear Used: Sirui T-2005X Tripod with K-10x Tripod Head
Photo Processing Software used: Adobe Lightroom; Adobe Photoshop; Topaz Adjust;
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Description Remote, frigid, and often treacherous to traverse, Antarctica has always posed a challenge to the explorers and scientists who work there. As a result, remote-sensing scientists have steadily worked to develop detailed, accurate imagery of the continent—both to support research on the ground and to better study the continent from a safer vantage point. In November 2007, NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the British Antarctic Survey jointly released a new image mosaic of Antarctica. Development of the mosaic was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Known as the Landsat Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA), this map is made of imagery that has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 15 meters per pixel, the most detailed satellite mosaic of the icy continent yet created.
LIMA is comprised of Landsat images acquired between December 25, 1999, and December 31, 2001. This image shows a small portion of the mosaic around Ferrar Glacier, in the Dry Valleys near McMurdo Station. To create this image, data visualizers draped LIMA imagery over a digital elevation model to give a three-dimensional effect. The elevation shown is actual elevation (no exaggeration), and the perspective looks inland from the Ross Sea.
Although many people think of Antarctica as entirely blanketed by snow, the continent sports some areas of bare ground, and the Dry Valleys are a prominent example. Many years of relentless wind have swept these valleys clean of their snow cover. The same wind has also created blue ice. Ice absorbs a small amount of red light, but snow crystals are too small to show this light-absorption effect. Composed of larger ice crystals, however, blue ice makes the red light absorption more obvious. In this image, blue ice appears near the top of the image, upstream from the Ferrar Glacier. (Another example of blue ice appears along Prince Olav Coast, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS.)
LIMA shows remarkable detail, such as the peaks and shadows of the Royal Society Range (between the Ferrar and Koettlitz Glaciers), and the dirty surface of the Koettlitz Glacier, covered by dust and rocks blown off the nearby bare ground. LIMA also captures fingers of snow reaching down into Taylor and Wright Valleys, and the pools of snow along Taylor Valley.
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Credit: NASA/GSFC/NASA Scientific Visualization Studio. LIMA Data provided by: Patricia Vornberger (SAIC)
Image Number: ferrar_lim_2001365
Date: December 31, 2001
Negatives from Ebay. Seller said these were taken by Thomas Smyth. Google search brought up the following from the Princeton Alumni website: Tom was born May 12, 1927, and grew up in Indiana, Pa., where his father, an ornithologist, was head of sciences at Indiana State Teachers College.
After Army service, Tom graduated from Princeton with honors in biology. In 1952 he earned a Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University.
He was a teacher-researcher at Tufts University from 1952 to 1955, and then professor of entomology and biophysics at Penn State University until his retirement in 1991. He remained active in the university community, especially as a leader and adviser for the Penn State Outdoor Club.
Throughout these years he climbed mountains worldwide: in the Himalayas, on Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya in Africa, up Fuji in Japan and Mount Ararat in Turkey, on the Matterhorn in Switzerland, and in China’s Tien Shan Mountains.
While at Tufts University he had explored the Greenland ice cap more than 900 miles into the Arctic Circle. Penn State gave him a Friend of the (Nittany) Mountain Award. He personally maintained 25 miles of trails there; an outlook on the mountain is named for him.
Tom was cited as a dedicated teacher and for exemplary stewardship of natural resources, and as a “tireless guardian of Mount Nittany.” He died Dec. 5, 2019, in State College at 92.
NAPP Pharma, Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge, 13 Jun 2020
The biggest and best of the early Science Park buildings, built 1980-1983 to a design by Canadian Arthur Erickson.
Pevsner comments 'this type of linear, ground-hugging building-as-extruded-machine was a fruitful North American type in the 1970s not widely imitated in Britain'.
Glasgow Science Centre is a visitor attraction located in the Clyde Waterfront Regeneration area on the south bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Queen Elizabeth II opened Glasgow Science Centre on 5 June 2001
Working on the SUBSA experiment. It stands for "Solidification Using a Baffle in Sealed Ampoules" which doesn't help much to understand what is going on admittedly. We were processing samples of metal alloys for researchers to observe how they are cast. Metallurgy is a hot subject for space research (not only because of the casting temperatures #dadjoke) because how metals form is complicated, very precise, and as metals are used everywhere on Earth improving them could have enormous benefits. As metals form, they grow crystals that resemble Christmas trees, and these crystals influence the strength of the metal. On Earth gravity influences how these crystals grow, so observing the process in space helps to understand the process, making it easier for researchers to create mathematical models. ESA has a facility called the Electromagnetic levitator in the Materials Science Laboratory to conduct research in this same domain. After the bronze age and iron age this type of research could lead to another metal age... 😎 An observant viewer will notice that I am wearing different t-shirts – no I didn't spill any (they are in sealed ampoules remember!) but the experiment runs over many days, actually the Materials Science Laboratory was running similar metal batches in Columbus too!
L’expérience SUBSA sur laquelle j’ai déjà travaillé plusieurs fois (les plus observateurs auront remarqué les t-shirts différents 😉) : en gros, c’est de la métallurgie spatiale. Les alliages sont un sujet assez chaud pour la recherche spatiale, et pas seulement à cause de leur température de fusion (je ne résiste pas à la blague de papa 😄). L’amélioration des alliages, omniprésents dans notre vie moderne, a évidemment un potentiel d’applications immense sur terre. Les métaux se forment en poussant comme des cristaux (avec une forme un peu sapin de noël si on a de l’imagination), et ces processus sont fortement influencés par la pesanteur, d’où l’idée d’enlever ce facteur pour mieux les appréhender. Après le bronze et le fer, ces recherches pourraient donner naissance à un nouvel âge du métal 👍
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Old shot from this spring: The Science and Technology Museum located in Tokyo, Chiyoda City, near Imperial Palace. We passed up the museum, not because it looked little bit old-fashioned, but simply because we did not have time.
This design is a winner in the BrickLink AFOL Designer Program and now available as a crowdfunded set. The Science Tower is dedicated to scientific research, experimenting, inventing and discovering.
The model includes many references to famous experiments and scientific equipment. Find out more on BrickLink or my website!
Farmer & Brindley was a firm of architectural sculptors and ornamentalists based in London and created Science in the 1860. The object she holds indicates the speed of a steam engine.