Resist Tubule (Mechanisms of Gravity Resistance in Plants From Signal Transformation and Transduction to Response): Today Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Nyberg attached a Plant Experiment Unit (PEU) with plant samples and the Dehumidifier inside the Cell Biology Experiment Unit (CBEF) and then activated the PEU program. After 32 days of growth in the PEU an ISS …
Drew Skau and I have received a few comments on Subtleties of Color that deserve to be included. (By the way, don’t be shy. You can leave a comment here or at visual.ly) Naomi B. Robbins demonstrated that the standard land cover classification palette fails for color-deficient viewers. She also pointed out that “color-deficient” is […]
Each month, Earth Observatory offers up a puzzling satellite image here on Earth Matters. The September 2013 puzzler is above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us what part of the world we are looking at, when the image was acquired, and why the scene is interesting. How to answer. Your […]
Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions (InSPACE)-3 Experiment Runs: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Nyberg completed runs 23 through 26 out of a total of 42 runs planned as part of this experiment series. InSPACE-3 studies the behavior of magnetic colloidal fluids which transition to a solid-like state by the formation and cross-linking of …
Note: See the comment thread for an archive of questions and answers related to this event. Do you have questions about how NASA measures, models, and visualizes our changing climate? Here’s your chance to ask them directly. Earth Observatory is hosting a climate Q & A with NASA scientists at 2 pm EDT on Wednesday, […]
In Flight Maintenance (IFM) Crew Quarters (CQ) Cleaning – Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Nyberg cleaned the overhead CQ intake and exhaust ducts, fan and flow sensors. This routine maintenance was performed in preparation for the arrival of new ISS crewmembers later this month. Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions (InSPACE)-3 Experiment Runs: FE-5 …
34S Soyuz Undock & Landing: Soyuz 34S undocked from the ISS Mini-Research Module (MRM)-2 bringing Commander (CDR) Viogradov, Flight Engineer (FE-2) Misurkin, and FE-3 Cassidy back to earth. Prior to undocking, the crew performed leak checks on the vestibule, suits, and hatch between the descent module and the habitation module. The undock command, which initiated …
Monday, Sept 9 at 8:18 PM Central Time, a baseball size fragment of a comet entered Earth’s atmosphere above Alabama, moving southwest at a speed of 76,000 miles per hour. At such speeds, fragile cometary material will not last long. Just 3 seconds after hitting the atmosphere, the meteor disintegrated 25 miles above the town …
The previous posts are my personal take on using color in visualization. I hope my perspective is useful, but it’s primarily a synthesis of the work of others. Here’s a list of the sources that inspired and informed this series. If you don’t have the time or the inclination to sort through the whole set, […]
