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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo view of another world. Fifty years ago the scene was recorded by Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan on December 11, 1972, one orbit before descending to land on the Moon. The stereo anaglyph was assembled from two photographs (AS17-147-22465, AS17-147-22466) captured from his vantage point on board the Lunar Module Challenger as he and Dr. Harrison Schmitt flew over Apollo 17's landing site in the Taurus-Littrow Valley. The broad, sunlit face of the mountain dubbed South Massif rises near the center of the frame, above the dark floor of Taurus-Littrow to its left. Piloted by Ron Evans, the Command Module America is visible in orbit in the foreground against the South Massif's peak. Beyond the mountains, toward the lunar limb, lies the Moon's Mare Serenitatis.

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I will write prose
of verse, sonnets and thing
of love's sweet emotions,
which makes my heart sing.

Sing of the love for
my mother and friend.
Sing of a love,
which will never end.

After my time is past,
here no longer, gone,
my words will still
be, the lyrics of a song.

When I see you,
my tongue gets in the way.
I can't find enough words,
for once again to say.

I love you,
more than I should.
Please make sure
I am not misunderstood.

Through a pane of a window,
I see the pain in your heart.
Why must you suffer,
as we're pulled apart?

I will love you forever,
as I have from the start,
looking through a window,
when it's time to part.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

On the night of December 7 Mars wandered near the Full Moon. In fact the Red Planet was occulted, passing behind the Moon, when viewed from locations across Europe and North America. About an hour after disappearing behind the lunar disk Mars reappears in this stack of sharp video frames captured from San Diego, planet Earth. With the Moon in the foreground Mars was a mere 82 million kilometers distant, near its own opposition. Full Moon and full Mars were bright enough provide the spectacular image with no exposure adjustments necessary. In the image Mars appears to rise just over ancient, dark-floored, lunar crater Abel very close to the southeastern edge of the Moon's near side. Humboldt is the large impact crater to its north (left).

Photo by Tom Glenn

All the words in the World,
can't make this right.
Now I am spoiled,
awaiting a new fight.

Please do not tell me,
everything will be alright,
for those are words,
causing a sleepless night.

“The world where the owl is endlessly hungry and endlessly on the hunt is the world in which I live too. There is only one world.” Read more

Image credit: The royal natural history (1893) Authors: Lydekker, Richard,- Smithsonian Libraries

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Here I sit,
deep in thought,
digging out words,
those which I bought.

Playing with words,
trying to rhyme,
takes imagination,
takes much time.

Happy birthday to my
dear cousin, Ken, who
was one week older than me.
He passed away after being
hit at an unmarked RR crossing,
60 plus years ago. He was
21 years old. God speed, cousin.

Conversations brisk.
A smash in the mouth,
indication the discussion
was now headed South.