A summer picture for the winter solstice. Which I'd forgotten until Amy reminded me.
This year's reminders from TPP and RM.
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* Book of the New Sun. I still think Gene Wolfe does a better job of capturing the wonder of the Apollo programme with that brief paragraph that anyone else ever has.
Geologists greatly appreciate the returned rocks; as do astronomers and astrophysicists. Other physicists appreciate the various radar mirrors which were implaced by Apollo crews.
ReplyDeleteThe single most important result remains the Blue Marble photograph.