Just A Cool... "Icing On A Prop" Shot... No Other Agenda.

For the record, it is Curtis Flack and Paul von Hardenberg of NASA depicted in the full article -- but my aim here was to focus on the jaw-slacking patterns Mother Nature herself creates -- in endless varieties -- all winter long. . . if one is patient enough to really. . . look.

As more of a man of science, though, I might say it demonstrates the endless variety of crystal formation rates and final morphology, as the Second Law of Thermodynamics manifests itself, given that air currents and humidity levels and even rate of energy loss, on a metal surface, vary in a nearly infinite set of combinations. Grin. Here's the story in context -- and a bit:

. . .[The NASA science staff inspect the ice formation] on the spinner of an Advanced Air Mobility proprotor model tested in the Icing Research Tunnel at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. . . .

Now you know. And with Forte a scratch (bruised hoof, just five hours before race time). . . I'll take the long shot out of Japan, Derma Sotogake -- to be ridden now by the jockey that was to be aboard Forte, sans injury. See the revised masthead above. . . smile. . . .

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