“Hey sky, take off your hat, I’m on my way!” – Valentina Tereshkova

“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.” – John Singer Sargent

Why is Phobos so dark? Phobos, the largest and innermost of the two Martian moons, is the darkest moon in the entire Solar System. Its unusual orbit and color indicate that it may be a captured asteroid composed of a mixture of ice and dark rock. The featured assigned-color picture of Phobos near the edge […]

Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 24C and a low of 24C. 73 Humidity. 15 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

“In nature there are few sharp lines.” – A. R. Ammons

“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock

Admire the beauty but fear the beast. The beauty is the aurora overhead, here taking the form of a great green spiral, seen between picturesque clouds with the bright Moon to the side and stars in the background. The beast is the wave of charged particles that creates the aurora but might, one day, impair […]

Light Rain today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 93 Humidity. 17 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” – Russell Baker

“Every great inspiration is but an experiment – though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.” – Charles Ives