Ice becomes art through science


More about ice from NASA:

If you’re watching the Winter Olympics, you know that snow and ice are an integral part of the sports. But did you know that snow and ice need to be different for each sport? NASA scientist Peter Wasilewski’s studies of ice using polarized light create beautiful colored pictures of the snow and ice, and enable people to see if the snow and ice is “right” for each type of sport.

That’s one of Dr. Wasilewski’s ice photographs, entitled “Burble’s Gradient.”

And by the way, thanks to Kate at small dead animals for the link to my post about why rocks curl. I noticed a string of visitors from her site, which led me to ponder: If an increase in visitors due to a link from Instapundit is an “instalanch,” is an increase of visitors due to a link from small dead animals a “small dead animalalanche”? ‘Cause, you know, ewwwwww…

(Hey, maybe we could call it a tribbleanche, instead, after that famous scene in “The Trouble With Tribbles” where Kirk opens the door to the grain storage hold and all the grain-stuffed, but tragically poisoned, tribbles descend on him en masse…small dead animals indeed!)

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