06-14-2018, 04:01 PM
Phenomenal view of the ISS tonight, There was some cloud cover but the station was bright and easily visible. When it reached the end of it's pass over Puna the station faded into the orange glow above the lava flow in the southeastern sky, and I wondered whether any of the crew had looked down at that moment.
I'll check in a day or two if there is a mention on their social media feeds, but for now here's a recent daytime photo taken by a member of the ISS crew, of Kapoho Bay and the steam clouds roiling inland:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj-CMgJFVDG/?hl=en&taken-by=iss
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
I'll check in a day or two if there is a mention on their social media feeds, but for now here's a recent daytime photo taken by a member of the ISS crew, of Kapoho Bay and the steam clouds roiling inland:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj-CMgJFVDG/?hl=en&taken-by=iss
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves