“June, July, August. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go.”
- Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems
- Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems
How different does sunset appear from Mars than from Earth? For comparison, two images of our common star were taken at sunset, one from Earth and one from Mars. These images were scaled to have same angular width and featured here side-by-side. A quick inspection will reveal that the Sun appears slightly smaller from Mars than from Earth. This makes sense since Mars is 50% further from the Sun than Earth. More striking, perhaps, is that the Martian sunset is noticeably bluer near the Sun than the typically orange colors near the setting Sun from Earth. The reason for the blue hues from Mars is not fully understood, but thought to be related to forward scattering properties of Martian dust. The terrestrial sunset was taken in 2012 March from Marseille, France, while the Martian sunset was captured in 2015 by NASA's robotic Curiosity rover from Gale crater on Mars. Last week a new rover and a helicopter -- onboard Mars 2020 -- launched for Mars.
JE SUIS CONTRE TOUT ET TOUS'
I.K. Bonset (Theo van Doesburg), 1921
I.K. Bonset was one of many alter ego's Van Doesburgs used during his lifetime. It allowed him to create a new personality that could declare the exact opposite of what Van Doesburg was known to stand for. They gave him the liberty to escape the dogma's that he in part created himself.
I.K. Bonset (Theo van Doesburg), 1921
I.K. Bonset was one of many alter ego's Van Doesburgs used during his lifetime. It allowed him to create a new personality that could declare the exact opposite of what Van Doesburg was known to stand for. They gave him the liberty to escape the dogma's that he in part created himself.
“I cannot die any longer.”
— Ingeborg Bachmann, from In the Storm of Roses: Selected Poems; Songs of Flight.
— Ingeborg Bachmann, from In the Storm of Roses: Selected Poems; Songs of Flight.
Sept 7th, 1956:
Before going out into the yard this afternoon we had to wait for Hess. When he arrived at last, Doenitz said to him, "If I had a mark, Herr Hess, for every quarter of an hour I've had to wait for you in the past eleven years, I'd be a rich man." Hess retorted without hesitation, "And if I, Herr Doenitz, had only a single pfennig for every useless word you've addressed to me in these eleven years, I'd be much richer than you."
Lately Doenitz has formed the habit of posting himself ten paces in front of Hess and staring at him for minutes at a time. Sometimes I then post myself beside Hess and stare back, which makes him stop his rudeness.
- Albert Speer, the Spandau Diaries.
Before going out into the yard this afternoon we had to wait for Hess. When he arrived at last, Doenitz said to him, "If I had a mark, Herr Hess, for every quarter of an hour I've had to wait for you in the past eleven years, I'd be a rich man." Hess retorted without hesitation, "And if I, Herr Doenitz, had only a single pfennig for every useless word you've addressed to me in these eleven years, I'd be much richer than you."
Lately Doenitz has formed the habit of posting himself ten paces in front of Hess and staring at him for minutes at a time. Sometimes I then post myself beside Hess and stare back, which makes him stop his rudeness.
- Albert Speer, the Spandau Diaries.