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  3. Bookmarks #9

    North polar layers of Mars. The north polar layered deposits are layers of dusty ice up to 2 miles thick and approximately 620 miles in diameter. We can see the layers exposed on the walls of troughs and scarps cut into the deposits, such as the trough wall imaged here. The bright region at the top is the flat surface above the trough wall.

    Yep, more bookmarks! Seems a bit like I'm going backwards in time. That may be a reflection of how tabs normally get opened: the more recent ones are to the left, the older ones to the right. This is a good batch!

  6. Bookmarks #7

    The lowest spot on land, the Dead Sea depression sinks 400 meters (1,300 feet) below sea level. River beds known in the region as wadis drain into the small sea occasionally when it rains, but it is principally fed by the Jordan River, which flows in from the north. (Source: NASA Images)

    More bookmarks! Some blog posts, tools, and references, and an article and pull request. Perhaps another blitz week is in order—still lots to go!

  7. Ask Me Anything #4

    Hubble captures a spiral galaxy with many lights. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the spiral galaxy NGC 1672 with a supernova. (Source: NASA Images)

    I answer another question for WeblogPoMoAMA, this time a question I posited to the community in the aftermath of the US presidential election about how this impacts you, your plans, and what you will do.

  8. Impact

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lunar lander lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:05 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. As part of NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Intuitive Machines' first lunar mission will carry NASA science and commercial payloads to the Moon to study plume-surface interactions, space weather/lunar surface interactions, radio astronomy, precision landing technologies, and a communication and navigation node for future autonomous navigation technologies. (Source: NASA Images)

    I write about Impact for the Indieweb Carnival and explore personal impact, other's impact, and the impact of the powerful through the lens of the US presidential election results. It turned out differently than I planned.

  9. Ask Me Anything #3

    Spitzer Space Telescope captures galactic snack. This image of the Andromeda galaxy uses data from NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope. Multiple wavelengths are shown, revealing stars (in blue and cyan), dust (red), and areas of star formation. (Source: NASA Images)

    I answer another blogger's question again, this time about 'Hiraeth,' and explore some places and times in my life that I long for, feel momentary grief and loss, and know I'll never have again.

  10. Bookmarks #6

    Cassini closes in on Saturn. In this May 15, 2004 image, dark regions represent areas where Cassini is seeing into deeper levels in Saturn's atmosphere. The dark regions are relatively free of high clouds and the light at these particular near-infrared wavelengths penetrates into the gaseous cloud-free atmosphere and is absorbed by methane. (Source: NASA Images)

    A new set of bookmarks for NaBloPoMo. I should have at least ten sets of bookmarks this month, as I've been saving up fora long time. Dig into ten blog posts, a font, and a tool this time.

  11. Ask Me Anything #2

    Sunglint on the Alabama River. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photo of large meanders of the Alabama River while orbiting over the southern United States. The river's smooth water surface reflects sunlight back toward the astronaut's camera, producing an optical phenomenon known as sunglint. (Source: NASA Images)

    In this second Ask Me Anything I answer a question asked of another blogger about what I think makes me vulnerable. I try to tie my answer to influences on my personality type as well as how this vulnerability is cropped up over time.

  19. Bookmarks Blitz! (Day 5)

    An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photo of peak fall colors around Ottawa, the capital of Canada. West of downtown Ottawa lies Gatineau Park, where sugar maple leaves turn orange-red and hickories turn golden-bronze during the season, known regionally as the Fall Rhapsody. (Source: NASA Images)

    Finally finishing off blitz week after disappearing for the last several days. This is a smorgasbord of small categories that finishes off all my existing bookmarks and makes way for all the freshness the next time I publish some bookmarks.

  24. Bookmarks #4

    Tiny satellites, also known as CubeSats, are pictured after being deployed into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital deployer on the outside of the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module. (Source: NASA Images)

    Round four of bookmarks include some more lengthy articles and a couple videos. The first set of bookmarks using my new categorization attempt.

  26. Bookmarks #3

    The Pegasus Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, also known as Andromeda VI, is one of at least 13 dwarf galaxies that orbit the Andromeda galaxy. (Source: NASA Images)

    In this third set of bookmarks, I share a set of links that sent me down a rabbit hole about finding what the indie web means to me and spawned a blog post.

  27. Pets

    This view of the Earth's crest over the lunar horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. Apollo 15 launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on July 26, 1971. Aboard was a crew of three astronauts: David R. Scott, James B. Irwin, and Alfred M. Worden. The primary scientific objectives were to observe the lunar surface, survey and sample material and surface features in a preselected area of the Hadley-Apennine region, setup and activation of surface experiments and conduct in-flight experiments and photographic tasks from lunar orbit. (Source: NASA Images)

    I tell the tale as best I can remember of all the pets I've had in my life, as well as some special guests, and visiting animals that only stayed for a short time. These include cats, a duckling, a rubber boa, and a green iguana.

  30. Bookmarks #1

    This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features IC 3476, a dwarf galaxy that lies about 54 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. While this image does not look very dramatic—we might say it looks almost serene—the actual physical events taking place in IC 3476 are highly energetic. In fact, the little galaxy is undergoing a process called ram pressure stripping that is driving unusually high levels of star formation in regions of the galaxy. (Source: NASA Images)

    A first installment of bookmarks, as a means of clearing out the browser tabs, and putting a little context around why I'm keeping them around.

  43. Blogroll Spin #6

    Rivers swelled in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan in April 2024 following heavy rain and rapid snowmelt. This image shows Orenburg on April 13, the day river levels peaked. This scene was acquired by the OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 9. (Source: NASA Images)

    Another blogroll spin for WeblogPoMo2024: heavy hitters! This spin is full of veritable bloggers, writers, and speakers. Many are important voices in their field and/or the blog-o-sphere.

  60. Blogroll Spin #5

    Resembling sparks from a fireworks display, this image taken by a JPL camera onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows delicate filaments that are sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. (Source: NASA Images)

    Spinning the blogroll for WeblogPoMo2024 and this round is random! I took nine tabs at random that I had open in Firefox and am adding the blogs to my blogroll, and sharing the posts that were open here.

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