the sky & beyond: comet 3/31 to 6/2

[npixelz]

Well that's a rip

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Full moon for moon festival tonight!

[MissAutumn]

I had no idea that the Moon Festival existed. Happy Moon Festival. Are you having moon cakes?

[Lemon Cheesecake]

no where to buy them around here ... have to order them online

(I only like the sweet paste filling in some moon cakes, the others the paste inside is too thick and blah).

Have you tried moon cakes?

[npixelz]

A moon festival? Is there also a sun festival?

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Apparently there is! Just with a different culture... "Annual celebration of the Mayan New Year (February 25), fire ceremony and a gathering to promote solar power."

[MissAutumn]

I've never tried one, Lemon. I really want to though. I'd have to go to one of the big cities to buy one though. The paste is made from beans, right?

[npixelz]

I see! I prefer the moon, but the sun is pretty great, too.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Mars is close to the moon right now, take a look in the night sky this week!

[Lemon Cheesecake]

According to NASA, on Tuesday, Mars will be close to Earth that the red plant will be visible with the naked eye.

[npixelz]

Wow, I can't wait to not see it

[Lemon Cheesecake]

NASA mission successfully touched down on asteroid Bennu!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/world/na ... index.html
"After orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Bennu for nearly two years, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touched down and reached out its robotic arm to collect a sample from the asteroid's surface on Tuesday.

That sample will be returned to Earth in 2023."

[+] SPOILER

"To achieve this historic first for NASA, a van-size spacecraft had to briefly touch down its arm in a landing site called Nightingale. The site is the width of a few parking spaces.
The arm reached out to collect a sample, which could be between 2 ounces and 2 kilograms. Then, the spacecraft backed away to safety."

[npixelz]

Ooo nice

[Lemon Cheesecake]

It's going to be 3 years before they can determine what the robot picked up. ZToo bad they can't diagnose things automatically like on the sci fi shows.

[npixelz]

Yeah. Still cool, though