'Sci / Tech Tourism' Category
Scientific tourist #103 — Explorer 10
For this week’s science-related travel image, we’re going back to the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamagordo. The picture is of a life-size model of the Explorer 10 spacecraft…
Scientific tourist #102 — the Tetraodontidae
A friendly looking (but highly poisonous) little critter at the Albuquerque Aquarium…
Scientific tourist #101 — Pippo, big & little
This week’s images come to you from the Paleontology section of Museo di Storia Naturale (Natural History Museum), Universitá degli Studi di Firenze in Florence, Italy…
Scientific tourist #100 — Strato-Lab
This week you get a pair of images from the Albuquerque Balloon Museum — they’re of the gondola of Strato-Lab IV, part of a series of manned stratospheric balloons launched by the U. S. Navy in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s…
Scientific tourist #99 — the D-21 drone
Today you get a bunch of photographs, of a single subject, taken at a variety of venues — and it’s all about the D-21 drone…
Scientific tourist #98 — Rue Cuvier
Georges Cuvier founded vertebrate paleontology, and all he got for his troubles was this lousy street sign…
Scientific tourist #97 — Nike Ajax
This week’s image comes to you from the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamagordo, New Mexico — it’s a Nike Ajax anti-aircraft missile on its launcher…
Scientific tourist #96 — Cave Bear
Today’s image comes to you from the Paleontology section of Museo di Storia Naturale (Natural History Museum), Universitá degli Studi di Firenze; Florence, Italy…
Casual Friday — going deep…
I’ve posted some “Scientific tourist” shots from Carlsbad Caverns in southern New Mexico. But thanks to BBC’s “Planet Earth” series, you can see video of a nearby (still in the boundaries of the National Park) and far larger / deeper (deepest in the U.S.) cave — Lechuguilla…
Scientific tourist #95 — Bandelier Longhouse
This week’s image comes to you from the Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico…
