«It looked
like a crater on the moon!»
For Instagram lovers there are the two Adriana Varejão works on display: one with a cracked surface
like craters on the moon and the other ripped apart to reveal a bloodied centre.
Not exact matches
One thing we discovered is that when we dropped the marbles
on the wet paint, it didn't necessarily look
like moon craters.
As is the case with viewing the
moon's terminator line, the change in light casts shadows, allowing viewers to see many features in three dimensions (
like being able to see the depth of
craters on the
moon).
Before the images arrived
on Earth, most people expected these
moons to be dead places, looking
like our own
Moon with its innumerable
craters.
Right now lot of people are using computational codes to simulate the event, but what I'd
like to do is that actually do the whole scale event in small scale; and that way we'll understand why
craters look
like [they] it do
on places
like the
Moon, Mercury and Mars and Venus; and what might happen to the Earth if we got hit by the next big one.
Scientists thought most of Vesta outside the south polar region might be flat
like the
Moon, yet some of the
craters outside that region formed
on very steep slopes and have nearly vertical sides, with landslides often occurring in the regolith, the deep layer of crushed rock
on the surface.
Said a colleague, «I'm really impressed with how it handles the
moon -
like craters on the road.
Land
on Whakaari Island, within the Bay of Plenty, to walk the
moon -
like crater with its huge steaming lake and phosphor pools.
You could say that Tillmans, who won the Turner prize in 2000, swapped the telescope for the camera, one kind of eyepiece for another, turning from things that are very far away,
like the
craters of the
moon, to things close to home - the skin of an orange, rolled socks
on a sofa, friends and lovers, intimacies both human and inanimate: rumpled clothing, the clutter
on a windowsill, the detritus of a party, a bowl of fruit.