Array Collection (page 6)

International Space Station solar panels
International Space Station (ISS) solar panels over a limb of the Earth. This is the starboard array on the P6 truss. A total of eight arrays are to be installed. Each array is 33 by 12 metres

Spheres, computer artwork

Gallium nitride nanowires, SEM
Gallium nitride nanowires, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Nanowires, seen here grown in square plots, are artificially grown crystal filaments that measure only a few nanometres

Silicon nanowire device, held by tweezers. This device is coated with billions of tiny nanowires, each measuring a few nanometres (billionths of a metre) in diameter

Zinc oxide nanowires, SEM
Zinc oxide nanowires, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Nanowires are artificially grown crystal filaments that measure only a few nanometres (billionths of a metre) in diameter

Nanowire solar cell. This solar cell is coated with billions of tiny nanowires, each measuring 60 nanometres (billionths of a metre) in diameter and 20 micrometres (thousandths of a metre) in length

Nanowire tweezers, computer artwork
Nanowire tweezers. Computer artwork showing nanowires (grey cylinders) surrounded by an electric field (red and yellow). The electric field, known as an optoelectronic tweezer

Flatbed scanner
Scan head of a flatbed scanner. Flatbed or desktop scanners capture images from printed media using the scan head. The scan head contains a lamp (white tube) that illuminates the image

Small windmill used to drive a pump, which alters water levels in irrigation ditches. Behind the windmill are a row of houses (centre) that have solar panels fitted into the roofline

Domestic solar panelling built into the roofline of a row of houses. Each solar, or photovoltaic, panel is made up of many solar cells that convert light into electrical energy

Solar energy systems. Solar heating tubes (top) and an array of photovoltaic (PV) modules on a house rooftop. A passive solar water heating system comprises individual evacuated glass tubes (EGT)

Solar powered road sign, UK
Solar panel mounted above a signs at a traffic island. The panel generates electricity to illuminate the sign at night. Photographed in the UK

View of an array of amorphous solar panels
Amorphous solar panel array. View of an array of amorphous solar panels. These panels were developed at Stuttgart University, Germany, and have an extremely high efficiency

Solar panels at a traffic island, UK
Solar panels mounted on signs at a traffic island. The panels generate electricity to illuminate the signs at night. Photographed in the UK

Solar panels on house roof
Solar panels. A 1.5 kW solar electricity generating system of photovoltaic cells can be seen at right on the south-facing roof of a terraced house

Solar-powered parking meter. This parking meter is powered by electricity generated from the solar panel (black), mounted on top of the meter. Photographed in Nanaimo, Vancouver, Canada

Solar cells. Close-up of the surface of solar (photovoltaic) cells, which convert light into electrical energy. Cells are made from a semi-conductor such as silicon (as here)

Mir space station orbiting the Earth. Mir was launched by the USSR in February 1986 and spent 15 years in orbit around the Earth, being used to carry out numerous scientific experiments

DNA Biochip. Computer artwork of a DNA Biochip, a piece of biotechnology used for cheap and rapid simultaneous analyses, for example infectious organisms in samples of blood

DNA microarray and double helix

DNA microarray. Computer display of a section of a genome (the sequenced genes of an organism) produced by DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) microarray technology

Genetic research, conceptual computer artwork. A double helix spans the image. At right are nucleotide base sequences. Deoxyribonucleic (DNA) acid has four bases: adenine (A), thymine (T)

Christmas tree assembly. An array of pipes and valves fitted to a production wellhead. This assembly controls flow and comprises at least two isolation valves to prevent accidents

Science illustrations, 17-18th centuries

Zoological illustrations, 18th century

Elephant anatomy, 18th century

Russian Soyuz spacecraft on display at the National Space Centre, Leicester, UK. A flight model constructed in the 1960s, but never flown

Science illustrations, 18th century

Biological illustrations, 18th century

Barnacles, 18th century
Barnacles. 18th-century journal page illustrating several rare species of barnacles. A full list of the barnacles is at bottom

Science illustrations, 17th century

Ariane 4 rocket versions, artwork

Meteosat weather satellite at the National Space Centre, Leicester, UK (MOP-4, flight model spare for Meteosat 7). Intentionally overprocessed image

Plant cells, light micrograph. These cells are from a spiderwort (Tradescantia) plant. The rigid shape of a plants cell wall is one of the features that distinguishes it from animal cells

Heliotrope solar house
Close up of the top of the Heliotrop Solar House, Freiburg, Germany. Designed by architect Rolf Disch, the house was built in 1994 as an artists studio and home

Optical illusion, 19th century
Optical illusion, 19th-century artwork. Array of white circles on a black background, the starting point for a demonstration of an optical illusion

Sphere packing, computer artwork
Computer artwork of spheres hexagonal close packed in a cube

Solar power satellite, artwork
Solar power satellite. Artwork of a future solar power satellite in geostationary Earth orbit. The Moon is seen above the Earth at top

Helical array antenna
Helical phased-array communications antenna. Photographed at the 2007 International Astronautical Congress exhibition in Hyderabad, India

Virus types, artwork

ISS solar array. Airglow above the Earths horizon seen behind an array of solar panels on the International Space Station. Image taken by an Expedition 17 crewmember on 4th August 2008

Display of squashes and pumpkins. Selection of various varieties of squashes and pumpkins in a farm shop. Squashes and pumpkins (genus Cucurbita) are grown for their pulpy flesh

Solar power plant at sunrise. Parabolic mirrors at a solar power plant. These mirrors work by tracking the Sun across the sky and focusing its rays onto tubes that contain synthetic oil

Solar power plant, Nevada, USA
Solar power plant. Rows of photovoltaic arrays at the Nellis Solar Power Plant, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, USA. This 14 megawatt energy system generates in excess of 25 million kilowatt-hours of

Solar powered street lights

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