“The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.” – Mary Leakey

“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.” – Thomas Jefferson

Wind-sharpened rocks known as ventifacts, cover this broad sloping plain in the foot hills of Mount Sharp, Gale crater, Mars. Dubbed gator-back rocks their rugged, scaly appearance is captured in these digitally stitched Mastcam frames from the Curiosity rover on mission sol 3,415 (March 15, 2022). Driving over gator-back rocks before has resulted in damage […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 79 Humidity. 11 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

This artist’s impression is of a supermassive black hole that is inside the dust-shrouded core of a vigorously star-forming “starburst” galaxy. via NASA https://ift.tt/d3aQiBc

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.” – Ray Bradbury

“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.” – Arne Jacobsen

Spiral arms seem to swirl around the core of Messier 96 in this colorful, detailed portrait of a beautiful island universe. Of course M96 is a spiral galaxy, and counting the faint arms extending beyond the brighter central region it spans 100 thousand light-years or so. That’s about the size of our own Milky Way. […]

AM Light Rain today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 70 Humidity. 12 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from South.

What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/gK3c9iQ