For the #Spacetober prompt future, my speculative little painting of a future where tourists can visit Venus. With 90 times Earth’s atmospheric pressure & a surface temperature which can reach 460°C & melt lead, high altitude balloons have been proposed as perhaps the only likely human habitat on Venus. Short term high altitude balloons with instruments have been used to gather data there…. Who knows? Maybe one day they will house people.

#sciart #SpaceArt #Venus #planetarySci #travelPoster

For the #Spacetober prompt astronomical object: a mono print built up with layers of ink on a gel plate of a Super Massive Blackholes (SMBH) with relativistic jets.

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#printmaking #monoprint #gelPlate #gelPlatePrinting #sciArt #spaceArt #blackhole #MastoArt

For today’s #Spacetober prompt EVA, or extra-vehicular activity I made a tiny astronaut on a spacewalk linocut. It’s printed on shiny paper with a pearlescent sheen.

#sciArt #linocut #printmaking #miniprint #astronaut #spacewalk #spaceArt #spacetoberchallenge #MastoArt

For the #Spacetober prompt lift-off: it’s my portrait of #mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; 1918-2020). 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. 🧵1/n

#mathematics #sciart #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #spaceArt #histsci #BlackInSTEM #MastoArt

For the #Spacetober prompt aeronautics: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008), known as Gold to her family, was a mathematician, aeronautical engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee “hidden figure” of the space race. 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.
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I have several prints about today’s #Spacetober prompt Aurora but 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. 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #aurora #STEVE #night #MastoArt

For the #Spacetober prompt Robotic Explorer I brought back a new edition of my little linocut Opportunity the Martian Rover. 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 #washi #sciArt #spaceArt #Mars #Opportunity #rover #PlanetaryScience #geology

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

#linocut #printmaking #miniprint #night #forest #spacetoberchallenge #MastoArt

For the #Spacetober prompt Carl Sagan: the famous Arecibo message, an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier 13 in 1974 alongside a view of space with stars & nebulae.

Designed by astronomers who were thinking about the possibility of & communicating with alien life, including Drake, creator of the Drake equation & others, the message was a demo of 🧵1/

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #astronomy #histsci