Science is Beautiful

T-1 robot in sandbox at NASA’s Ames Research Center, 1995. (NASA)

STS-127 Credit:NASA

Insect Paintings

“A sound that moves fast” illustrated in The Sound and Hearing World of Science, 1966. (Mondorama 2000)

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December 11, 1972 – Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan checks out the lunar rover at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. (NASA)

HIV virus by Alexey Kashpersky

NASA Tweets in response to The Martian’s #GoldenGlobes win

This cut-away drawing shows a sting mount penetrating a model Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star with strain gauges inside the fuselage to measure aerodynamic forces.  The two 1- x 3-foot supersonic tunnels at Ames were among the first built without external balances, thus relying solely on strain gauges for force and moment measurements.  

Earth and the Space Shuttle Discovery, August 1997. (National Archives)

Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula.

Pictures by R. Tanaka

Atmosphere

4 kopeks (ussr, 1962)