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*Orbital Objects* February Digital Downloads are here!
🕑 Added 2024-02-01 10:00:05 +0000 UTCMagical Patrons,
It's no secret that I am enamoured with all things to do with space - the names of all our Patreon tiers should have been a dead giveaway! I recently went down a rabbit hole of low earth orbit, mid earth orbit and high earth and geosynchronous orbits and the satellites or shuttles that explore each one. I wanted to paint these beautifully complex and incredible objects and settled on these three miraculous explorers.
Galileo is an NASA space probe that explored Jupiter and Jupiter's moons until 2003 when it was crashed into the surface so it wouldn't collide with Europa!
The SpaceX Dragon can actually CARRY passengers and cargo and while the new wave of billionaires in space is pretty problematic, the brilliance of this craft is wild to me because it's designed to carry STUFF from SPACE.
RADARSAT-1 is actually a Canadian satellite that sent us info about.. well.. US. Because Canada is humongous, one of the only ways to observe it all is from space so Canada decided in 1995 to head to space to get a better vantage point.
The beauty and complexity of these orbital objects is one of the reasons I'm so grateful to have YOU magical Patrons, and the support that lets me follow a fascination until it turns into a painting. I am so utterly grateful to be able to take the time to do it. I hope you enjoy these desktop and phone wallpapers and as always, if you need something sized for a different device just let me know.
Thank you for being here friends. You're incredible.
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Brenda Dunn, Art in Jest
Saaaaaame
Man, i love space
Brenda Dunn, Art in Jest
HOW ARE YOU THE COOLEST
Donna Hutt Stapfer Bell
My late father in law was the thermionics engineer on Galileo. I have stories to tell you about what happened after Challenger blew up and he was tasked with blowing up his power supply to aerosol - just to see what would happen if IT blew up the same way. He couldn't get it to do it, and the saddest face you never saw over a glass of bourbon. (Watching The Right Stuff with him was a howl.) The son I married had worked on Voyager I at 14 (private schools and JPL employees got cozy, but he was really that 285 IQ) and well, you need a telescope methinks. Voyager I finally went completely silent - they've committed it to the cosmos. I love that anyone remembers my Dad's litle probe that could. Rare earth ceramics and plutonium power supply and all.
