(ORDO NEWS) — All the best images in science this month, from around the globe.
2022 is now well underway, with the last of the Christmas leftovers but a distant memory.
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The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas returned this year, after being an all-virtual event in 2021. CES is traditionally one of the biggest events on the technology calendar, and although attendance was down this year on 2020, there were still many highlights.
Meanwhile, as the James Webb Space Telescope was successfully unfolded and moved into position, the anticipation of what spectacular images we might see later on this year starts to build. You will see them all on Sciencefocus.com as soon as they drop.
Pink drink
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Aerial view of rosy salt lake on 2 January 2022 in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province of China.
Biting the hand that provides batteries
An attendee places a finger inside the mouth of Yukai Engineering’s Amagami Ham Ham cat robot, during the Consumer Electronics Show on 3 January 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The Consumer Electronics Show, one of the world’s largest trade fairs, returned to Las Vegas under a newly resurgent pandemic.
Startling starlings
A murmuration of starlings fly in the sky at sunset in Rome on 3 January 2022.
Stop right now
A vehicle with Luminar LIDAR based Proactive Safety pre-collision braking crash avoidance technology stops to avoid a child-sized test dummy as it is demonstrated on a test track at the Las Vegas Convention Center ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show on 4 January 2022 in Las Vegas, USA.
Wish you were here?
The China National Space Administration published a stunning Martian selfie captured by the Tianwen-1
Mars orbiter above the Red Planet on 4 January 2022 after releasing a small camera and beaming photos via WiFi to mission control. The photographs show the orbiter flying around the Red Planet in an orbit, the ice cover on Mars’s north pole, and a scene of a barren Martian plain.
Training day
The tmsuk Pedia-Roid ER training robot for healthcare worker training on paediatric patients is demonstrated during the Consumer Electronics Show on 5 January 2022 in Las Vegas, USA.
Race for autonomy
The TUM Autonomous Motorsport race car from the Technische Universität München drives during the Indy Autonomous Challenge. The challenge took place during the Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on 7 January 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Members of Italian-American team PoliMOVE cheered as their car, nicknamed ‘Minerva’, repeatedly passed a rival entered by South Korean team Kaist.
Webb unfurled
Engineering teams at
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Mission Operations Center at the Space Telescope
Science Institute in Baltimore monitor progress as the observatory’s second primary mirror wing rotates into position, on 8 January 2022 in Baltimore, USA. The infrared telescope with a 6.5-metre primary mirror was folded up for launch and underwent an unprecedented deployment process to unfold in
space. As NASA’s next flagship observatory, JWST will study every phase of cosmic history from within our Solar System to the most distant observable galaxies in the early
Universe.
Mr Fog
This aerial view shows Kuwait City’s al-Hamra tower (right), the headquarters of The National Bank of Kuwait (centre) and the al-Rayah tower (left), caught in heavy fog early on 13 January 2022.
Northern Lights
An aurora borealis, also known as Northern Lights, illuminates the night sky above the
Kellostapuli Fell in Kolari, Finnish Lapland, early on 15 January 2022.
Loose cannon
A ‘cannon’ that uses soundwaves to push toxic particles higher into the atmosphere to allow
residents to breathe cleaner air is pictured in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska,
Poland, on 19 January 2022.
In a battle against Poland’s constant smog, scientists are testing out the experimental device that uses soundwaves to push toxic particles higher into the atmosphere in order to to chase the smog from Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, which like many Polish towns and cities faces the problem every winter
when residents fire up highly polluting heating systems.
On the move
An instrument dubbed the ‘space storm hunter’ hangs out in its new location outside the
International Space Station in this image taken by on of the station’s external
cameras on 21 January 2022. The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor,
or ASIM for short, measures electric events in
Earth’s upper atmosphere with
cameras, photometers, X-rays and gamma-ray detectors.
Colombian bushfires
A man fights a bushfire in Guatavita, near Bogotá, Colombia, on 22 January 2022. The bushfire has destroyed dozen of hectares of native vegetation and is out of control according to local authorities.
What goes boom
This colourised schlieren image, released on the January 2022, shows a small-scale model of
NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic
Technology (QueSST) airplane inside NASA Glenn Research Center’s Supersonic Wind Tunnel during a recent boom test. The multiple-week campaign produced data
sets and shockwave visuals that engineers from the agency’s Commercial Supersonic Technology
project will use to validate boom-reducing technologies and sonic boom-predicting capabilities.
The man in the recycled mask
A staff member seen sorting wireless phone chargers at Miniwiz Lab in New Taipei City,
Taiwan on 27 January 2022. Miniwiz has developed a process that turns used face
masks into cases for wireless phone chargers.
Squid game
An
AI interactive squid by Holo Toyz is seen on a mobile phone at the Toy Fair 2022 on 27 January
2022 in London,
United Kingdom. The 2022 London Toy Fair is the only international
toy trade event this year with others being cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Quit hogging the stone
A curling robot prepares to throw a stone during a human versus robot curling competition on 28 January 2022 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province of China. The curling robots are developed
by researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology.
The Da Vinci code
Visitors attend the X Media Art Museum, a digital arts and new media museum,
on 29 January 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. The exhibition opened its doors to art lovers,
Boy you turn me
People pose for photos outside the upside-down house, in Guatavita, near Bogotá,
Colombia, on 29 January 2022. The house was designed by its Austrian owner Fritz Schall.
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