Looking for the Full Blue Moon Wednesday night. ( which was obscured by clouds)


Looking for the Full Blue Moon Wednesday night. ( which was obscured by clouds)
From the archives
COSI Center of Science and Industry in Columbus
Surface tension of water molecules illustrated in this exhibit.
“It turns out that this effect was already studied for the first time in 1833 by the famous French physicist Félix Savart and has fascinated many great physicist ever since (Boussinesq (1869), Taylor (1959) and, recently, Clanet (2001)). They found that the shape of the bell can be understood as an delicate interplay between inertia, surface tension and gravity” click for more information from a physicist‘s perspective
Rapids on the Niagara River
Highland Park Reservoir.
Two views, different directions, three minutes apart.
On a walk Tuesday November 2nd.
Barkhamsted Reservoir in Connecticut.