Apr 10, 2013
Enceladus is a Rocket Moon As the long winter night deepens at Enceladus' south pole, its jets are also progressively falling into darkness. The shadow of the moon itself is slowly creeping up the jets...
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Exploding Ice Forms Pits in Mars Craters Dramatic underground explosions, perhaps involving ice, are responsible for the pits inside these two large martian impact craters, imaged by ESA’s Mars Express...
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Nano-Flowers Mulmudi Hemant Kumar, Nanyang Technological University (First Place) False-color image of nanoflowers made from zinc-doped, tin oxide. First synthesized in TK, nanoflowers are structures...
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Freeze Yang Hui Ying, Singapore University of Technology and Design (First Place) Organic nanowires with inorganic nanoparticle frost coating (left); frosty pine needles (right). Image courtesy of the...
View ArticlePlayful Hedgehog Particles
Playful Hedgehog Particles Joong Hwan Bahng, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (First Place) Digitally enhanced electron microscope image of nanoscale "Hedgehog" particles, sculpted by growing rigid...
View ArticleCastle Ruins Over a Field of Nanotubes
Castle Ruins Over a Field of Nanotubes Julien Schweicher, University of California, San Francisco Electron microscope picture of a TiO2 nanotubular layer, after exposure to a buffered oxide etch...
View ArticleDivacancy
Divacancy Miguel Moreno Ugeda, University of California, Berkeley Double carbon vacancy artificially generated in graphene by ion irradiation. The image was taken witha scanning tunneling microscope....
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Ferroelectric Centaur Stephen Jesse, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Dynamic domain wall motion in PZT nanocapacitor measured by a 5D piezoresponse force microscopy. Brightness indicates speed, and color...
View ArticleTetraaniline in Full Bloom
Tetraaniline in Full Bloom Yue Wang, University of California, Los Angeles (First Place) This originally is an SEM image of a thin-sheet network composed of doped aniline oligomers. The aggregated...
View ArticleScience As Art, Video
Science as Art, Video Some of the Materials Research Society's favorite images from among the previous eight years of competition. Video: Materials Research/YouTube
View ArticleApr 12, 2013
Green Space Bubble This intriguing picture from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows the glowing green planetary nebula IC 1295 surrounding a dim and dying star. It is located about 3300 light-years away...
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Raindrops on Mars? The dark features here look like raindrops, but are actually sand dunes. This spot was targeted by CRISM because the dunes are rich in the mineral olivine. Olivine-rich dunes are...
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The Elephant Trunk Nebula This image of the Elephant Trunk Nebula was taken with the Mosaic camera on the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. The Elephant...
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The Light of Other Worlds This false-color composite image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals the orbital motion of the planet Fomalhaut b. Based on these observations, astronomers...
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Mercury Transit Since SOHO in its halo orbit was a bit "ahead" of Earth at the time, Mercury's shadow caught up with SOHO a little later than with observers on Earth. The transit itself started at 7:48...
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