#spacetober_challenge — Public Fediverse posts

For #spacetober_challenge day 31 prompt future: “Take the Europa Express, your passport to the Galilean Moons!” 🧪🐡 My linocut is a space travel poster for a future where we all share the citizenship of Earth and can take rapid transport to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, known as the Galilean Moons (named after Galileo, who first observed them with a telescope). 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #spaceArt #Jupiter #Europa #planetaryScience #travelPoster #MastoArt

For #spacetober_challenge prompt day 30: galaxy - astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & evolution of our universe! The Nobel committee waited 3 years after she died to reward another for the theory of dark matter. 🧵

#histsci #mastoArt #printmaking #sciart #linocut

For #spacetober_challenge day 29 prompt orbit: #mathematician and #astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)! We remember him for his role in the Scientific Revolution, and his three laws of planetary motion in particular. His laws modified Copernicus’ heliocentric model; he replaced the circular orbits with elliptical ones & described velocities of planets. Today we know them as:

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#sciart #histstm #Kepler #geometry #PlatonicSolids #mathematics #musicOfTheSpheres #linocut

Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. She started her career at 🧵

#spacetober_challenge Earth
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #EarthSci #Math #mastoArt

For the #Spacetober_challenge prompt habitat, my speculative little painting of a future where tourists can visit Venus. (I’m swapping day 26 and 27). With 90 times Earth’s atmospheric pressure and a surface temperature which can reach 460°C and melt lead, high altitude balloons have been proposed as perhaps the only likely human habitat on Venus. 🧵1/2
#sciart #SpaceArt #Venus #planetaryScience #travelPoster

For Day 25 #spacetober_challenge: historic missions- my portrait of mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of the US crewed spaceflights from the beginning. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInStEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci

For the #spacetober_challenge day 24 prompt jet/plane I made a new #womenInSTEM #linocut: trailblazing Canadian aeronautical engineer Elsie MacGill (1905 – 1980), born in Vancouver, became the first woman aeronautical engineer & professional aircraft designer in North America, & likely the world. She collaborated on many of Canada's famous & innovative bush planes & aircraft components, was entirely responsible for 🧵1/

#printmaking #histsci #engineering #aviation #aeronautics

For the #Spacetober_challenge day 23 prompt space station I made a tiny linocut print of the track of the ISS across the night sky.

#linocut #printmaking #miniprint #night #forest #spaceArt #sciArt #mastoArt

For Day 21 of @spacetober_challenge #spacetober_challenge prompt star: trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵1/

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #mastoArt

For #spacetober_challenge prompt telescope: #astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell as a grad student in ‘67 discovered the 1st radio pulsar, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of EM radiation. This radiation can only be observed when the star is pointed towards us; so, like the light from a lighthouse, it appears to pulse at a precise frequency. She had been working with her supervisor Hewish & others to construct a radio telescope 🧵1/

#linocut #printmaking #histsci

For the #spacetober_challenge day 18 prompt: Mars/Mars mission: This is a mini hand-pulled linocut (7” x 5”) of Opportunity the Martian Rover. The print is in a gradient of rusty orange and black on ivory Japanese washi paper. Launched July 8, 2003, Opportunity (Oppie to his fans) was active on Mars from 2004 through 2018, looking at Martian geology to evaluate whether Mars has the potential to support life. 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #spaceArt #Mars #Opportunity #rover #mastoArt

For the #Spacetober_challenge prompt historic person, day 17, I’m sharing my portrait of British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & that you and I are all stardust! She was the 1st author of a monumental scientific paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, 🧵

#mastoArt #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM

New print for #Spacetober_challenge prompt day 16: parachute! 🪂

This is a collaged lino block print with an image of the parachute deployed during the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it landed on the planet February 18, 2021. The spacecraft team selected the red and white stripes to encode a secret message in binary: "DARE MIGHTY THINGS" along with
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#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #Mars #Perseverance #spaceArt #washi #mastoArt

For #spacetober_challenge day 15 prompt blackhole: my 6” x 8” mono print, built up with layers of ink on a gel plate of a Super Massive Blackholes (SMBH) with relativistic jets.

#printmaking #gelPlatePrinting #blackhole #astronomy #spaceArt #sciart 🧪

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1327046019

For day 12 of @spacetober_challenge #spacetober_challenge prompt eclipse: #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) and her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, solving the notorious 3-body by hand (including the gravitational pull of Jupiter & Saturn on orbit). They worked in parallel, calculating for 🧵1/

#printmaking #womeninSTEM #histsci #sciart

For #spacetober_challenge day 11 prompt asteroid, my wee little mini #linocut asteroid

#printmaking #sciart #spaceArt #asteroid

For day 9 #spacetober_challenge nebula: Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life & career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, & purposely stood in the way of her 🧵

#printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #astronomer #mastoArt #histsci

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the Trail of Tears, Ross attributed her success in math to the Cherokee tradition of encouraging equal education for boys and girls.🧵
#printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #Indigineer #planetaryScience #linocut #mastoArt

For the #spacetober_challenge day 6 prompt constellation, I am sharing my portrait of #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. My portrait of Leavitt is printed in silvery lavender ink on Japanese kozo (or mulberry paper). Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t). 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #sciart #histsci #astronomy #constellation #mastoArt

For the #Spacetober_challenge @spacetober_challenge day 5 prompt Voyager I’m sharing my mini #linocut of Neptune for the Voyager program which sent two interstellar probes to the outer planets.

#printmaking #planet #Neptune #sciart

The #Spacetober_challenge @spacetober_challenge day 4 prompt is moon so I’m sharing my Theia #linocut about the formation of our moon. This 6 colour hand printed linocut print illustrates the formation of the Moon in a comic book influenced pop art style. The favoured model of Moon formation is that 4.5 billion years ago, early in the history of our solar system, a Mars-sized astronomical body called Theia crashed 🧵

#sciart #printmaking #planetarySci #geophysics #moon #spacesci #mastoArt

For the #spacetober_challenge @spacetober_challenge day 3 prompt space weather I thought I would share STEVE.

This is a hand-carved, hand-printed linocut print of a forest with night sky with the atmospheric optical phenomenon called STEVE: Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement, a column of shining purple light which is often associated with a green ribbon “picket-fence” aurora or northern lights, as shown. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #aurora #STEVE #night #mastoArt

Day 2 of #spacetober_challenge by @spacetober_challenge is planet(s), so I am sharing two mini #linocut prints of Mars (with Phobos and Deimos) and Mercury, along with my stylized minimalist ‘Transit of Venus’ print, showing Venus eclipsing the Sun.

Find my Mars print here: https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1313889325

#sciart #printmaking #spaceArt #planet #Mars #Mercury #Venus #planetaryScience #mastoArt