Dear Santa…

I hope it’s not too late to send you this, Santa, but I’ve been a bit busy at work, and those evil, eeeeevil people who operate the Mars Reconaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera have kept me at my computer too, drooling over their images of craters and dust avalanches and the like. I hope this letter [...]

The beauty of Mars…

… is clearly, like any other form of beauty, in the eye of the beholder, as I found out by corresponding with a fellow Mars enthusiast…
As a proud and active member of unmannedspaceflight.com – one of the busiest and most respected space enthusiast forums on t’internet – I often post images there that I think [...]

Keep an eye on the Sun…

.. or rather the sky around the Sun, because at this time of year – when the temperature is plummeting and the air is icy – we can sometimes see some very interesting and beautiful lighting effects “up there”…
The most obvious and most impressive phenomena we can see at this time of year is probably [...]