Author: Michael Hardy / Source: WIRED
Our solar system is full of some pretty odd things, as well as phenomena that are so stunning and beautiful it’s hard to even grasp. We’ll start close to home, though, just above the atmosphere in the International Space Station. Astronauts there take photos through the windows all the time, capturing auroras and massive hurricanes as well as plenty of sunrises and sunsets.
This photo should also remind us that, even though we like to look at space, we are also in space. Our atmosphere is a thin blue line, delicate and hazy. It is all that protects us and separates us from the vastness we are always trying to reach.We will visit Mars next, to say goodbye to the final resting place of the Opportunity rover, an area once covered in water called Meridiani Planum. Not too far from there is another region scarred by the dust devils that kick up dust…
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