Using The Semester Break To Pick Up A New Skill (much To The Joy Of My Flatmates). Also Practicing Loads

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) “Vase with Irises” (1890) Oil on canvas Post-Impressionism Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

Apollo 11 Hasselblad image from film magazine 38/O - Lunar orbit, Trans-Earth coast. x

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant, American historian

**NASA Before PowerPoint In 1961.

Happy #MoonDay! To celebrate the 49th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, we present you with “Moonlight,” a video by our Goddard science visualizer Ernie Wright set to Debussy’s Clair de Lune. The Apollo missions were a landmark in lunar exploration. The visit and the samples that our Moon walkers collected transformed our understanding of the Moon and the solar system. Now, our Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s high-resolution data gives an incredibly detailed view of our closest neighbor.

This visualization captures the mood of Claude Debussy’s best-known composition, Clair de Lune (which means moonlight in French). The piece was published in 1905 as the third of four movements in the composer’s Suite Bergamasque, and unlike the other parts of this work, Clair is quiet, contemplative, and slightly melancholy, evoking the feeling of a solitary walk through a moonlit garden.

“Moonlight” uses a digital 3D model of the Moon built from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter global elevation maps and image mosaics. The lighting is derived from actual Sun angles during lunar days in 2018. Enjoy and read more HERE.

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breakfast in bed & monday’s WSJ

Tumultuous Clouds of Jupiter : This stunning image of Jupiter’s stormy northern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet. (via NASA)

Amazing Space Shuttle Shot. 🚀

Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky, 1875

Old books in Michael Moon’s Bookshop, Whitehaven.