Unnamed reef in Great Barrier Reef,, which is over 2,300km long and has over 2,900 reefs. One or more Great Barrier Reef pics will be in my forthcoming book about Earth as art. #reef #greatbarrierreef #coralreef #earthobservation #landsat #earth #usgs #satellite #earthart

If you're in the Chicago area and looking for something to do Sunday Dec 2, check out the Chicago Society for Space Studies annual party and 2018 The Year in Space program. Details are at chicagospace.org/events.html #space #chicago #party

Listened to Romantic Warrior by Return to Forever last night for the first time in a long time. Always loved this album cover (and music). You can find some individual songs from the album on Youtube. #returntoforever #chickcorea #jazz #jazzfusion #music

Bryce Canyon National Park Utah Antique Landscape. Read the creation story at artsnova.com/blog/bryce-can… See the product art at redbubble.com/people/jimplax… #brycecanyon #bryce #nationalpark #photograph #nature #utah #art #digitalart #landscape

OOPS. This simulation of China's Chang'e-4 lunar lander on the Moon was shown on last night's PBS Newshour. Chang'e 4 landed on the Moon's far side. The 'oops' is that big blue planet in the sky on what is supposed to be the far side of the Moon. #spaceexploration #lunarlander

redbubble.com/people/jimplax… New art: Aerial Anatomy of a Desert Landscape The original is 36x24 inches. #desert #landscape #geology #nature #environment #ecology #Earth #anatomy #illustration #art #plaxco #arid #aerial #landforms #dendritic #rivers #scenery

bit.ly/Desert-Dunes Desert Dunes and Oases is abstract art inspired by an aerial view of Great Sand Dunes National Park. #desert #dunes #sand #oasis #oases #abstract #nature #earth #ecology #environment #art #print #abstraction #plaxco #landscape #aerial #illustration

Given the number of emails I get from "hackers" I must have the most-hacked computer on the planet. Nah - they're just emails from scum out to scam. This one's from Argentina. Hackers should be ticked by all the con artists trying to pass themselves off as hackers. #hackers #scam

Wrote about creating this portrait of Edgar Allan Poe using the poem The Raven: artsnova.com/blog/portrait-… #poe #raven #art

This Saturday 3/24/19 I'll be giving my updated Planet Earth as Art: The View from Space talk at Kaffeestube in Schaumburg. Details are at kaffeestubeschaumburg.com #art #talk #landsat #earth #program #kaffeestube #environment

New art based on a MRO HiRISE image of deposits in a crater south of Vallis Marineris, Mars. The full size version is 36x24 inches. Note that this is based on a BW photo so the coloring is not true. On Redbubble at redbubble.com/people/jimplax… #mars #spaceart #mro #redbubble

Attended the Computer.art:dream meetup at Sprout Social HQ in Chicago. A pretty cool event for creative coders. I'll be back. #meetup #computerart #creativecoders #creativecode #p5js #processing #sproutsocial #newmediaart #digitalart

SpaceX Crew Dragon cockpit display. Go NASA and SpaceX. #LaunchAmerica #nasa #spacex

Register for Capricon Science Fiction Convention's Kaffeeklatsch with Jim Plaxco, tonight Feb 4, 2021) at 9:00pm Central Time. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #capricon #sciencefiction #webinar

Landing success! Mars Perseverance Rear Right Hazard Avoidance Camera (Hazcam)image: enlarged, enhanced, false color added. Source: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multi…

National Space Society Space Forum: How To Design A Martian Civilization Of One Million People and The Global Alliance For International Collaboration In Space. Thursday 02/25/2021 at 9:00pm EST Registration required: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #webinar #mars #space

Deployed a minor redesign of my new digital-art-prints.com website (initially released a few months ago). Tweaked the UI and added content. Built using a combination of the Zurb Foundation frameworks and custom CSS. digital-art-prints.com #digitalart #printondemand #webdesign

Latest satellite image processing: Colors of Africa Libyan Rock and Sand Dunes. 24x16 framed canvas print on Society6: bit.ly/africanColors #art #remotesensing

Pillars of Creation as wall mural society6.com/art/webb-teles… #webbspacetelescope #pillarsofcreation #eaglenebula #spaceart #astroart #digitalart