Is Ansel Adams still alive and in orbit around Mars? From Astronomy Picture of the Day, April 22, 2012: Flowing Barchan Sand Dunes on Mars. Barchans are crescent-shaped sand dunes, with two horns that point downwind. They form in areas of limited sand supply; on this image you can see that the dunes occupy less than …
Category: Art
New England under water
From the ESRI Map Book Online volume 25: What if all the polar ice melted? The description from the ESRI Map Book: This map is a depiction of Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts/Cape Cod inundated by a 67-meter (73-yard) sea level rise resulting from a total melting of the polar ice caps. Although an unlikely …
Starry Night
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day: Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. Grace and Peace
Volcano art
Magma Cum Laude has a couple of nice paintings of Vesuvius, including this one: Pierre-Jacques Volaire, The Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, 1777; from the North Carolina Museum of Art HT: The Volcanism Blog Grace and Peace
Nature on canvas
Before there was color landscape photography, there was painting. One of the great landscape artists was Albert Bierstadt, whose Valley of the Yosemite is currently featured on a 42-cent stamp: The Art Renewal Center advertises itself as the internet's largest online art museum, and has hundreds of high-resolution Bierstadt paintings (as well as thousands of …
Musee d’Orsay
I did more in France than take pictures of bus stops named after famous scientists. Here are a few of my favorite paintings from the Musee d'Orsay: The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection, Eugene Burnand, http://www.artbible.info The Gleaners, Jean-Francois Millet, Wikipedia, Musee d'Orsay Regatta …
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