COME SAIL AWAY: Last night, after making a frozen yogurt run, we took the long way home, around the 'horn' on the south Magnolia border. Glad we did. There was some sort of sailboat regatta going on. We stopped at one of our favorite beaches and watched the boats head for port. So pretty!
IT CONTINUES: More news an images from the successful New Horizons mission to Pluto continues to pour in.
Some of the biggest news? Pluto has atmosphere. Check out the photo above - a 'farewell' shot taken by New Horizons as it zoomed past Pluto, shooting back toward our sun.
You can see Pluto’s atmosphere in the photo, the white ring against the silhouette of the dwarf planet. It was taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 15, about 9 p.m. Pacific time. At that point, New Horizons was already 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) from Pluto. The image was just delivered to Earth yesterday. Because of New Horizon's distance from home, it is going to take weeks/months for the data it captured to be transmitted, so stay tuned for more of the Pluto show!
Other new photos of Pluto have revealed glaciers made of nitrogen ice creeping across its surface, hazes that come and go around the planet, and dark organic compounds raining down.
Also in today's Pluto news, this fun congratulations to the New Horizons team hit the Internet, featuring rock star and astrophysicist Dr. Brian May.
https://youtu.be/PvOF5anPAwo
MEANWHILE, CLOSER TO HOME: Buzz Aldrin has been busy on social media this week, which is the 46th anniversary of mankind's first moon landing.
According to Buzz Aldrin, "The true value of #Apollo11 is the story of innovation and teamwork that went into overcoming all the obstacles to land on the moon. That effort was driven in part by competition and scientific discovery and the natural need for humans to explore and push boundaries. The plaque we left on the moon reads:
https://youtu.be/Wf1kw5Yp9Ck
This Tang theme song will forever be burned into my brain: https://youtu.be/E-iRO0VpJqk
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