Florian Brożek

The shirt project was a collaboration between designers Rich Watts & Louise Ma. Once a month, for ten months, they found a new designer to create an information graphic based on a piece of current news. The finished pieces were silk-screened onto t-shirts and made available by subscription. This design was my contribution to the project.

Enceladus—a frozen moon of Saturn 310 miles wide in diameter—was recently photographed up close and personal by the passing spacecraft Cassini. In 2005, ice jets were observed erupting on the south pole of the tiny lunar satellite; since then, a subsequent flyby in March of 2008 found the following ingredients to be present within the icy eruption: water vapor, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and the organic molecules that are a prerequisite for life. On August 8th, 2008, Cassini passed by Enceladus at a distance of 30 miles, traveling at approximately 40,000 mph. The resulting images are the most detailed ever taken of a planetary surface, boasting a resolution of 1 pixel per seven meters. Scientists hope that the photographs can help explain what is happening beneath the surface.

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