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Beauty of science shines in 2016 PNNL calendar

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Rainbow colors represent an unpleasant reality — the swath of destruction caused by an Alabama tornado in the spring of 2011. Spatial modeling software and satellite imagery created the illustration as part of a Department of Homeland Security effort to apply remote sensing techniques to damage assessment.
Rainbow colors represent an unpleasant reality — the swath of destruction caused by an Alabama tornado in the spring of 2011. Spatial modeling software and satellite imagery created the illustration as part of a Department of Homeland Security effort to apply remote sensing techniques to damage assessment. Courtesy PNNL

Science masquerading as art is available to download from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a 2016 digital calendar or computer wallpaper.

The national laboratory in Richland has selected a dozen of the most colorful and intriguing images from among 60 nominations submitted by its staff last year.

The images were made possible by the state-of-the-art scientific microscopes and computational modeling capabilities available at the Department of Energy lab and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory on its campus.

While beautiful, each image was created to further the diverse research done at PNNL, including work to advance biofuels, energy storage, cybersecurity and biological threat detection.

Each month’s picture comes with a description of how the image was made and its purpose.

To download a calendar or background images, go to www.pnnl.gov/publications/calendars. This is the fourth year PNNL has produced the calendar.

This story was originally published January 7, 2016 at 7:02 AM with the headline "Beauty of science shines in 2016 PNNL calendar."

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