So the Boston Globe has begun a "Big Picture" page on their website - they describe it as "News Stories in Pictures". Not a bad idea, I suppose.
I don't know how many space-related features they have had in the history of this page, but in the past two weeks there have been a whopping total of two. One of them was linked to this page, and was on the first test launch of Ares I.
The second is on Martian Landscapes. The pictures are stunning. Check it out:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/martian_landscapes.html
I did not realize how extensive the sand dunes were, or that there were cliffs of ice on the north pole. When you look at these pictures, think for a moment on the richness of detail, beauty, and vastness of our solar system. And all that we can see, all this variation and wonder and grandeur that we observe in and around our familiar celestial neighbors, is right on our doorstep. Orbiting the same star. How many more worlds drift through the cold expanses of space, even in the next nearby star system or across our galaxy, unseen and unnoticed, waiting?
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