Wandering through the Nasa archive
If you've got a spare few minutes, you could do worse than spend some time looking around the huge collection of photos Nasa has posted on the web.
Too busy? Don't worry, let Weird Science do if for you!
This week I'll be looking for the most unusual - and coolest - shots I can find.
If you want to join in the fun, click here to have a root around yourself. If you come across anything good please let me know by posting a link in the comments box below and I'll share them with the rest of the Weird Science readers.
I've found a few to get us started.
Above is the very wacky M2-F1 - a 'flying bathtub' developed by Nasa in 1960s to explore wingless flight. It was flown by the legendary Chuck Yaeger and helped develop the re-entry craft for astronauts.
At first glance this is a very familiar-looking planet. It's Venus as seen through the eyes of the Mariner 10 probe back in 1974. The shot was taken using an ultraviolet filter and then 'tweaked' to bring the natural colour out.
There's no excuse for not keeping clean in space. Here is astronaut Jack Lousma taking a bath in the Skylab space station in 1973.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
