Calling it ‘art’ is a bit of a cheat I guess. I mean, is it really art if it is just a picture taken from a satellite doing its job? There is no eye for the artistic behind the taking of these pictures and it just so happens that some one was smart enough to put the pretty ones together.
None the less, the pictures are pretty striking with some amazing colors so I figured I’d toss them up here for all to see. From EnvironmentalGraffiti we get the “30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth.” These photos are all from 2000, when NASA went through over 400,000 pictures snapped by the satellite Landsat 7 and chose what they felt were the most beautiful for display at the Library of Congress.
Are they art? Maybe not, but they sure are pretty. You can see the other 29 here. You can even download them to use as desktop wallpaper.
Neatorama has a posting today of the 5 videos you have to see from Videosift, a site that, at least theoretically, sifts through the videos on YouTube and gets rid of all the crap. Of the top 5 that Neatorama claims you need to see I am passing on only one of them- A NASA experiment involving space and a sphere of water. I could explain how mesmerizing it is to watch waves travel back and forth through the sphere, or the reaction when Alka Seltzer is added to it, but I really wouldn’t be able to get the idea across which is why I have embedded the video. While this is all terribly fascinating it does raise the question: Why is NASA doing this? What purpose does it actually serve to see how Alka-Seltzer reacts with water in space? Anyway, try not to ponder that too much while you watch the video (there is another similar video you can dig around for that is just clips of Alka-Seltzer being introduced to a sphere of water in space).
Calling it ‘art’ is a bit of a cheat I guess. I mean, is it really art if it is just a picture taken from a satellite doing its job? There is no eye for the artistic behind the taking of these pictures and it just so happens that some one was smart enough to put the pretty ones together.