NASA successfully landed a new, SUV sized rover on Mars yesterday...gotta go with a WOOOOOO!!
It landed in what was once a river delta deposit, sedimentary rock, deposited as sediment 3.5 billion years ago as water emptied into a lake or sea, that will be drilled, analyzed, viewed from a drone and hopefully, samples will be returned to Earth by a later mission for better study. Did life evolve on Mars? Is there still life on Mars? Is there intelligent life on Earth? This mission's success would say yes to that last question but the last 4 years and current affairs in Texas would still leave that last question in doubt.
5+ million without clean water in Texico, still hundreds of thousands without power (bet they got both at exxon headquarters)..wonder who Gov. Abbott will blame today? 114 died there from the TrumpVirus yesterday(almost 42K so far in Loon Star land), storm death toll at about 3 dozen and likely to rise even as Polar Vortex eases a bit; still snow and cold there. Way to have your state ready Abbott!!
Here, despite forecasts for much worse, we dodged another ice storm bullet yesterday; we got ice just not horrid and no power loss..at the tirehouse, anyway. Brief hints of the sun and a temperature rocketing up to 36 brings hope of some melting today. Cold, dry air will settle in tonight making for chilly mornings on the weekend but the sun should be shining, moon light beaming in the evening. Today, at 1:47pm, the moon will form a perfect right angle with the Earth and sun: First Quarter Moon; it should be bright tonight till about midnight when the moon sets, then just stars!!
A 4.2 quake rocked the Oklahoma/Kansas border not too long ago, freaking fracking in another state of denial, "we need them oil jobs, who cares if a few buildings fall down". Some subduction quakes way out in the Aleutians and about 1/2 of the quakes outside the US today are at or above magnitude 5; both convergent and divergent boundaries seeing action..gotta be something happening at divergent to cause action at convergent, new sea floor lava providing the push!! Aussie plate leads the way in the push and squeeze department.
The solar wind is kicking it today, agitating our atmosphere up around the poles and releasing that energy as the lovely aurora borealis, the northern latitudes set for another show!! Here the sun is still working on the clouds, the storm moving east and north on up the coast, another New England hammering, but about to get bright here..real bright with all this white ice around!! Melt on ya big star!!
It's Friday, hope you stay safe, but can get out and enjoy a little exploration time out on the big planet, Today On Earth.
Wooooo, we hit 37 and it's still rising!!
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