Photo Gallery
Earth and Planets Laboratory (EPL) scientists regularly explore our planet and the universe. Browse our online image gallery to share in the journey of scientific exploration and discovery. For more pictures of EPL research, people, and events, visit our Flickr page.
DTM's Diana Roman setting up a quick deploy seismic station on December 1, 2017 to monitor the aftershocks of rare, magnitude 4.1 earthquake that shook Dover, Delaware. Photo courtesy of Diana Roman.
DTM's first Merle A. Tuve Senior Fellows (from left) Bernard Burke, Don Anderson, and Renzo Sancisi pictured with Maxine Singer, President of the Carnegie Institution from 1988 to 2002.
Bernard Burke (right) with Charles Little in receiver truck at Derwood radio telescope, 1964. Photo: DTM Archives
This blue diamond has dark inclusions of a mineral called ferropericlase, which was examined as part of a study that included Carnegie Steven Shirey (DTM), Emma Bullock (GL), and Jianhua Wang (DTM). Inclusions are remnants of the minerals from the rock in which the diamond crystallized and can tell scientists about the conditions under which it formed. Photo by study's first author, Evan M. Smith of the Gemological Institute of America.
The flag flying in the International Space Station (ISS) in November of 2016. Photo by Robert S. Kimbrough/NASA ISS. The flag is a replica of the ones that accompanied DTM’s expeditions to study Earth and space, on both land and sea. The Carnegie sailed the world’s seas in seven voyages to measure variations in Earth’s magnetic field on a global scale, including circumnavigating Antarctica in a single season in 1915-1916. A century later, the Carnegie expedition flag circled the Earth every 90 minutes aboard the ISS. The flag made its journey back to our campusn on May 5, 2017.
One of the DTM-engineered Carnegie Quick Deploy Boxes (QDB) at Stromboli Volcano, Italy. QDBs take advantage of new technology improvements to make compact and cost-effective broadband seismometers, facilitating deployment during rapid response and large array situations. One box is small and lightweight enough to be checked as airline luggage. Picture credit: DTM Postdoc Kathleen McKee.