“A painting that is well composed is half finished.” – Pierre Bonnard

“There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.” – Thomas Jefferson

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s arm reached out and touched asteroid 101955 Bennu on October 20, 2020, after a careful approach to the small, near-Earth asteroid’s boulder-strewn surface. Dubbed a Touch-And-Go (TAG) sampling event, the 30 centimeter wide sampling head (TAGSAM) appears to crush some of the rocks in this close-up recorded by the spacecraft’s SamCam. The […]

Rain today! With a high of 26C and a low of 26C. 77 Humidity. 16 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from South.

“The stars aligned – I was working at Johnson Space Center in Houston about six months later. That’s how I got here, in a roundabout way.” — Isidro Reyna, Strategic Communications Manager, Strategic Integration and Management Division, Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters via NASA https://ift.tt/xW01X3Z

“One’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.” – Andrew Wyeth

“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr

Where else might life exist? One of humanity’s great outstanding questions, locating planets where extrasolar life might survive took a step forward in 2019 with the discovery of a significant amount of water vapor in the atmosphere of distant exoplanet K2-18b. The planet and its parent star, K2-18, lie about 124 light years away toward […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 26C and a low of 26C. 75 Humidity. 15 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from South.

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