Archives for 4 April 2007
Tvashtar Erupts!!!
Published on 4 Apr 2007 at 5:17 pm.
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Filed under Astronomy, Exploration, Space.
Now THAT is a volcano!
The New Horizons spacecraft images an eruption of the volcano Tvashtar on Jupiter’s moon Io.
New Horizons is on its way to Pluto and is currently performing a gravity assist from Jupiter to slingshot it out to the outer solar system. As it is passing by, it is imaging and collecting data from Jupiter [...]
Lego Animations
Published on 4 Apr 2007 at 1:23 am.
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Filed under Fun, Lego, Software, Solutions.
I forgot my camera when I went to the lab today, so photos of my Lego Laser Scanner will have to wait.
In the meantime, I spent the early evening figuring out how to use the LDraw tools to draw and animate Lego constructions. To start, I simply made a figure of the four angled liftarm pieces using [...]
