A lonely sentinelcompletes another orbit in the void of space, daring to swing closer to the Sunthan even Mercury. Little do the denizens of Earth know, that one tinygravitational interaction between either Mercury or Venus, could send thisobject on a collision course with the Earth. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…a large asteroidjust…
Sunrises on Mars are always strangeto behold. I watched a small white globe cut through a cobalt-blue haze overOlympus Mons, cascading its light dimly across the red planet’s dusty surface.I’d been living here almost three years, and the sight never ceased tocaptivate me. The most morbid part of me imagined what it would be like…
Looking up at the moon, you might
think that it’s relatively benign, maybe a nice place to visit? Maybe you
wonder, as you stare at its cratered face as it drifts across the night sky,
why we haven’t been back since Apollo 17?
There may be a good reason for that. And it may come down to lunar regolith,
Imagine it: Standing on astrikingly more primitive version of our world, looking up at the night sky asa bright red-light bursts to life. What goes through our ancestors’ minds? Dothey think it’s the work of primordial gods? Is it a sign ofruin? The crimson light-show is brief, but even with its passing into the…