Two Years on the High Frontier
Congratulations to Bill Dunford on two years of his site, Riding With Robots (on the High Frontier). May marks the anniversary of the site, which has a widget I look at every day on my Mac to see the latest photo sent back by one of the many hardworking satellites and rovers scattered across our solar system. It's a way to get a little perspective before starting my day, both to help me remember that there's a lot more to the universe than my own little world and the tasks I undertake therein, and also to appreciate the amazing ingenuity of humankind and what it can accomplish when it pools its intellect for the noble pursuit of knowlegde.
Assembled by Mr. Dunford, here's a two-minute montage of all the photos that have been featured on RWR. With Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Earth and many, many moons shown in countless groundbreaking images, it's been a busy two years.
Here's to many more years, and every day another glimpse at the wonders of our extended family of planets.
Comments
I love sending my mind out there with the robots much better than leaving it stranded down here with the candidates! :D
Thanks for sharing that montage and the site with me, Jay! Love it!
Even the emptiness of the space between has beauty....a vast, scary, incomprehensible beauty, but an attraction nonetheless.
Knowing that everything we've ever discovered "out there" is a place we cannot survive in, a place we're not designed for....almost all of them places that, regardless of their often familiar features, would kill us within seconds.....only adds to the intrigue. For me, anyway.