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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
So you want to create a font. Part 1 | I love typography
Article by Alex Julien
"Alec Julien is a web developer and amateur typographer living in Vermont, US. He dreams of someday living somewhere warm, and typesetting a novel."
Monday, August 30, 2010
NASA, Internet Archive Flickr Launch Historic Image Collection
Site for the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston prior to ground breaking
Collection: NASA Johnson Space Center Collection
Title: Site for the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston prior to ground breaking
Title: Site for the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston prior to ground breaking
Description: Site for the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston prior to ground breaking. The area was grazing land for cattle, such as those in the view. Photo is labeled at the bottom "MSC Site January 1962".
Three compilations of images from more than half a century of NASA history are available for comment on a section of the photo-sharing site Flickr known as The Commons.
Visitors to NASA on The Commons can help tell the photos' story by adding tags, or keywords, to the images to identify objects and people. In addition, viewers can communicate with other visitors by sharing comments. These contributions will help make the images easier to find online and add insight about NASA's history.
Mars’s mysterious elongated crater
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| Orcus Patera on Mars |
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| Orcus Patera on Mars in 3D |
Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons.
This well-defined depression extends approximately 380 km by 140 km in a NNE––SSW direction.
It has a rim that rises up to 1800 m above the surrounding plains, while the floor of the depression lies 400–600 m below the surroundings.
ESA’s Mars Express obtained image data of this region on 5 and 11 October 2005 using the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC).
The data were acquired during orbits 2216 and 2238 and with a ground resolution of approximately 30 m per pixel. Combining data from the nadir channel and one stereo channel of HRSC produced this 3D image.
Stereoscopic glasses are required to see the 3D effect.
Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars’s equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation remains a mystery... read more: esa.int
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
Fermat's Last Theorem (1996)
Simon Singh and John Lynch's film tells the enthralling and emotional story of Andrew Wiles.
A quiet English mathematician, he was drawn into maths by Fermat's puzzle, but at Cambridge in the '70s, FLT was considered a joke, so he set it aside.
Then, in 1986, an extraordinary idea linked this irritating problem with one of the most profound ideas of modern mathematics: the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture, named after a young Japanese mathematician who tragically committed suicide.
The link meant that if Taniyama was true then so must be FLT.
Martian Skies |The Big Picture
Dust devil from above. This image taken by the Hi-RISE Camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter catches a dust devil blowing across the Martian surface. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
Several dust devils cross a plain in this animation of a series of images acquired by NASA's Mars Rover Spirit in May, 2005. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS)
via boston.com
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