With Warm Regards
June 19, 2012
If Matisse and Van Gogh worked together to make a crew portrait, this is what it might be like:
l to r: Joe Acaba, Gennady Padalka, Oleg Kononenko, Sergei Revin, André Kuipers (I was running the camera).
The thermal camera I used operates in the far infrared, with wavelengths around 10 microns, which is close to body temperature. I was using it to image the window heater in the Cupola, and played around with it a bit before putting it away.
Note that regular glass is not transparent in thermal infared, so glasses look like mirrors (and so do our windows).
Editor's note: More of Don's thermal camera pictures here
Other posts by this author
- A Poem for Saturday: One Planet is Not Enough
- From the Diary of a Space Zucchini: The Frontier
- From the Diary of a Space Zucchini: Preparing for Departure
- A (New) Moon is Born
- From the Diary of a Space Zucchini: Gardener's Spacesuit
- From the Diary of a Space Zucchini: Baby on Board!
- Stray Light
- From the Diary of a Space Zucchini: Happy Sprout Day!
- From the Diary of a Space Zucchini - What Do Dragons Eat?
June 19, 2012
Peter C.
Don is playing around with all kinds of cameras, lenses, spectral ranges. Visual, infrared, thermal infrared, .... when will we see an X-ray shot of the crew? An assembly of walking skeletons in the space station? Really spooky pix then .... ;-)))