Morning Skies
So this week I've been looking @ the sky during the drive to school. The clouds have been really beautiful this week- pink-tinged cumulus clouds. It's almost ominous in a way, with the whole "Red sky in the morning/Sailors take warning" adage, but I refuse to think something so beautiful can be so disrupting. I guess you could call that a flaw.
Since it was raining this morning, I could really only see black and darker blues, and very large cumulo-nimbus clouds. The rain stopped when I got on 75, for which I was grateful, because I could see everything better. I haven't seen the moon very much, though I get an occasional glimpse of it if the sky's not cloudy.But anyway, class is ending but the day is just beginning. Sorry for being queer.
Sandy Gas Jets Hypothesized on Mars
Observations made with THEMIS (The Thermal Emission Imaging System) instrument from NASA's Mars Odyssey found cold spots on Mars. The cold spots were revealed to be carbon dioxide (CO2). In spring when the poles warm, CO2 on the surface thins and underlying CO2 escapes from the planet's surface. These erruptions mix with dark sand and are very cold because of the CO2. This picture is a hypothesis of what these seasonal dark spots on Mars' surface would look like.
An Erupting Solar Prominence from SOHO
A solar prominance is a cloud of solar gas held above the Sun's surface by the Sun's magnetic field; the field is ever-changing, thus these eruptions are created. This picture was taken by the SOHO spacecraft (NASA) in July 2002. The picture was taken in UV light that is radiated by the Sun's ionized helium. High heats are shown in white while the cooler areas are shown in red. Much of this activity will calm once the Solar minimum is reached (an 11 year cycle of activity on the Sun's surface).
Plesides Meteor ShowerDate: August 13, 2006Time: 12:15-1:00 AMPlace: HomeSky conditions: Mostly clear; waning Gibbons moon made stars more difficult to seePlanets: VenusBright stars noted: PolarisArea of focus: meteors and possible fireballsObjects seen: 3 larger and more prominant meteors, one which looked very bright. I thought that it could have been a fireball since it was orange-yellow and very bright. It came from behind our house (S) that faces N. I tried to follow its direction & was able to see another along the same line. The third obvious meteor was W of the other 2 and streaked N before fading. I noted a few other very small meteors that were short-lived yet noticable. I started to get bit so I went inside around 12:45 and continued to watch from the back and front windows. I caught a meteor from the back (the moon was being blocked by trees so it was easier to see).
Sonnet CXVI Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no- it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. - William Shakespeare
