Infrared Self Portrait


We attended a Science Awards Ceremony for Pasadena Unified School District that was hosted at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory last night. Since there was no place for me to sit in the meeting room, I wandered to the JPL Museum next door. One exhibit was an infrared camera used on numerous satellites to measure temperature of objects in space. The sketch at left is me. At right is a child playing on a padded bench in front of the camera. Blue is cool and red is warm. The experience was a new way to see.

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