Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Life and stuff
The past 6 weeks have been very tiring, as Katy and myself are now in full wedding planning mode. It seems that I haven't really been able to think about anything else, even though the date (which we finally just solidified) is months away. We also have picked a location, but I will keep quiet on that one for the moment.
Work is work. One word to describe it is busy. As always, companies like to lay off people, and this indirectly affects my job as we have to go in and clean up after everyone has left. And with our current stockpile of equipment, we have no place to put any of the recently liberated equipment. I still wish I had found a geology or archaeology job after moving here, but you do what ya gotta do to get by these days. And I am still searching for one, but they are never easy to find.
I remember the days I used to just rant and type whatever came to mind back in the days when Mindvox was still around. I don't do that often enough, and should pick up the habit again.
Well, I wanted to add more but work is coming to an end for the day, maybe I will type more tomorrow.
Work is work. One word to describe it is busy. As always, companies like to lay off people, and this indirectly affects my job as we have to go in and clean up after everyone has left. And with our current stockpile of equipment, we have no place to put any of the recently liberated equipment. I still wish I had found a geology or archaeology job after moving here, but you do what ya gotta do to get by these days. And I am still searching for one, but they are never easy to find.
I remember the days I used to just rant and type whatever came to mind back in the days when Mindvox was still around. I don't do that often enough, and should pick up the habit again.
Well, I wanted to add more but work is coming to an end for the day, maybe I will type more tomorrow.
Cassini returns dazzling images of Saturn's rings
Some of the most spectacular images ever of Saturn's enigmatic rings have been returned by the Cassini space probe.
The pictures were captured using Cassini's Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) instrument and have been colour-enhanced to illustrate the different materials that lurk within the planet's famous discs. They were taken on 30 June shortly before the spacecraft slipped into orbit around the planet by drifting between two of its rings.
Astronomers at the University of Colorado in Boulder, who analysed the images, say they confirm that Saturn's rings get dustier and icier towards the edge. The dust and rocky debris found in Saturn's rings is thought to be made of silicates and organic materials, while the ice is likely to be a mixture of water and other substances such as ammonia.
The pictures that have been returned so far are amazing, and this article has a few of the color enchanced ones of the rings.
From New Scientist.
The pictures were captured using Cassini's Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) instrument and have been colour-enhanced to illustrate the different materials that lurk within the planet's famous discs. They were taken on 30 June shortly before the spacecraft slipped into orbit around the planet by drifting between two of its rings.
Astronomers at the University of Colorado in Boulder, who analysed the images, say they confirm that Saturn's rings get dustier and icier towards the edge. The dust and rocky debris found in Saturn's rings is thought to be made of silicates and organic materials, while the ice is likely to be a mixture of water and other substances such as ammonia.
The pictures that have been returned so far are amazing, and this article has a few of the color enchanced ones of the rings.
From New Scientist.
