The Artist.
Dr. Peter Wasilewski, a NASA scientist and Doctorate of Sciences
recipient from the University of Tokyo, researched magnetic
properties of meteorites, Moon rocks and Earth rocks. Upon
graduating from George Washington University, he turned down
a tryout for the Baltimore Colts professional football team
to participate in an expedition to the world's largest piece
of ice - Antarctica. Peter fell in love with the frozen continent
and has since gone back on 6 different expeditions over 25
years. During an early exploration near the base of the Antarctic
Peninsula Peter trod where no human had set foot before and
there stands an ancient volcano that bears his name-Mount
Wasilewski. Later expeditions would have him collecting meteorites
on the pale blue ice near the Trans-Antarctic mountains. He
would sample this ice and learn about the “color”
and shape of the ice crystals that could be seen in thin sections
of the ice.
The Medium. Water ice is
one of the most widespread, intriguing, and familiar compounds
on the planet, in the solar system, and beyond. On the planet
it falls as snow, forms lacy deposits on winter windows, creates
skating surfaces on lakes, gracefully drapes rock cliffs,
packs thickly on the polar oceans, and lays even thicker on
the ice caps blanketing Greenland and Antarctica. Beyond the
planet Earth, ice is present in the frozen oceans of Jupiter’s
moon Europa, in the particles of Saturn’s rings, and
in the spectacular tails of passing comets. Beyond the Solar
System, many light years beyond the Earth, ice is present
in the dense molecular clouds in regions where new stars form.
Of the 11 forms of water ice so far identified, only the form
found on Earth can provide a ‘Frizion.’ This is
because it is hexagonal ( a crystal property that explains
the needle and stellar snowflakes and is responsive to the
interaction with polarized light. |
Select Web sites related to Frizion
MEDIA HITS:
Olympic Ice is Different in a 'Frozen Light'
NASA Scientist Looks at Olympic Ice in a Frozen Light
WEB FEATURE/PORTAL (RELEASE DATE: 2/24/06)
www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2006/olympic_ice.html
www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/olympic_ice.html
HITS UPDATED 6PM EST 2/28/06
SUMMARY: This story received GOOD coverage, mostly from Web
media.
Highlights included: Innovations Report, Huff-Report.com,
MSNBC.com,
Photonics Online, PhysOrg.com, RedTram.com, Science Daily,
Terra Daily,
Topix.net, and Yahoo! News. International coverage: Canada,
France,
Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom.
Major Media Outlet Coverage:
INNOVATIONS REPORT (GERMANY):
www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/physik_astronomie/bericht-55827.html
PHOTONICS ONLINE:
www.photonicsonline.com/content/news/article.asp?docid=4181711e-2183-428b-9255-b89d8b68d68a&atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a&VNETCOOKIE=NO
PHYSORG: www.physorg.com/news11186.html
SCIENCE DAILY: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060224193103.htm
TERRA DAILY: www.terradaily.com/reports/Looking_At_Olympic_Ice_In_A_New_Light.html
The FRIZION website: www.frizion.com
The top story from the NASA website: www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/0508ice_photo.html
Earth science picture of the day: www.epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=85216
The Astronomy picture of the day: www.antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030529.html
www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10/Number/356807/Main/356806
www2.gwu.edu/~magazine/archive/2004_spring/docs/alumni_newsmakers/dept_
lumni_artists.html
www.jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=678
www.phy.duke.edu/~hsg/54/related-links.html
http://conversasdexaxa3.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/2005_02.html
The web sites below are art sites and education sites that
picked up the Frizion images and the accompaniment text to
present the interesting Frizions to their audiences. The sites
from which the text and images are derived are the “top
story” site and the APOD site
Links about atmospheric light phenomena that includes Frizion:
www.homepages.wmich.edu/~korista/about-lightsky.html
Art site picked Frizion:
www.farlimas.com/skyeye/skydatatext/space141text.html
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