‘PST Art’ Lifts Off, as NASA Scientists Team With Artists

Surveying the convoluted amalgamation of equipment in his windowless lab at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory the other day, Kevin P. Hand, a planetary scientist and astrobiologist, said he sees “a massive experiment to simulate Jupiter’s moon Europa.” But visual artists looking at the same tangle, he noted, might “see this as some sort of bizarre sculpture.”

Pointing out a direct-to-Earth antenna, Hand added, “an artist comes in and says, what is this pointillism creation that you’ve got going on here?”

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