Mars, showing the southern ice cap All this hoopla about Mars being closer to Earth than it has been in 50,000 years is interesting, especially because, even with backyard equipment, you can witness Mars melting right before your eyes.
The Blue Lagoon, near Reykjavik, Iceland. I’ve always wanted to go to Iceland. I don’t know why, but I’m drawn to the north and the barrens. Today I found a travelogue of a trip to Iceland last year undertaken by Sky and Telescope writer Paul Deans. It just reinforced my desire to go there. If i had US$2775, I might consider this trip for myself. There’s no question it would make great blogging material…
Fountain Monument Robert Smithson – Monuments of Passaic The American sculpter and landscape artist Robert Smithson has a website containing drawings, films, photographs and writings. Much of his art plays with maps and scrawls on both the literal and metaphorical landscape. In the late 1960s he fell in with a bunch of artisits who were playing with the ideas of monuments, messing with the notions of time, marking, remembrance and location that define monuments. Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future…They are not built …