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Mother’s Day Monet (Seasonal)
Seasonal: We thought we’d celebrate Mother’s Day with a Monet painting. (And of course, we’re planning to glitch this). This 1875 Claude Monet goes by a number of different names including “Madame Monet and her son”, “the stroll”, etc. Post and some comments below may be synced from our original Instagram version. Instagram likes: (more…)… Read the restPuzzle photo: Panama Canal related to Mars?
For today’s photo post, we have a puzzle: how is the Panama Canal related to the Planet Mars? Continuing on our earlier Mars theme, this is the Panama Canal, as viewed from the top of Ancon Hill in November 2009. Many giant ship container cranes are visible, together with shipping contains, and builds. There is a tiny-looking ship off to the left, and mountains, grass, clouds, and sky in the distance. The blue water of the canal runs through the center of the photo. Wait, did we say Mars theme? What does the Panama Canal have to do with Mars? Photo credit: Wikimedia/Brian Gratwicke/CC-BY-2 A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed. (more…)… Read the restRed Sky Rover: self-portrait of Mars Curosity at Gale Crater
Red Sky Rover: this is a self-portrait of the Nasa Mars Curiosity rover taken on Oct 31 2012 at Gale Crater. (We’re continuing on Martian theme, started with yesterday’s post on self-replication.) This photo was taken at “Rocknest,” in Gale Crater where the first scooping missions took place. (You all remember your Martian geography so you know exactly where Gale Crater is, right? Well, the place already has its own Wikipedia entry, which is more than one can say about some places on Earth. All it needs now is a postal code and a real estate agent. Maybe some fancy ads featuring models lounging near an (indoor? terraformed outdoor?) pool beneath the red sky. Maybe leave out the red sky and show only the faux tropical indoor pool. “Gale Crater condos starting in the low millions. Invest now; they aren’t making any more real estate.” Oh yes nasa and other space programs are.)… Read the restQuasar Gravity Lenses, or 1TB/day Digital Sky Survey
These are quasar gravity lenses from the 1TB/day Sloan Digital Sky Survey begun back in 2000. Shown here are some cool-looking quasars that act as gravitational lenses, photographed as part of the project. Space is one application of big data and data science that produces pretty pictures. Back beginning in 2000, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey generated 1 Tb of data per day imaging the sky. These days, big box stores seem to hand out larger drives as party favors, but 1TB of daily data was a lot to keep track of back in 2000. New technologies were needed to process all of this data at the time (think robotic computer tape jukeboxes. They were likely digital linear tapes, but anyone remember DATs, which used to be used for data archival AND music recorders? How quaint. Incidentally, a DAT tape was ‘just like a VCR’ in that it used a helical scan mechanism to reduce the length of tape.… Read the restRecent Comments
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