Seriously, I had all the ones in the Solar System memorized when I was six years old. Yeah, back when Pluto (a) was not only a planet but the smallest planet and (b) didn’t have a moon, and when Jupiter only had 9 moons and Saturn only had 12 moons…oh, those were the dayz…
Of course I realized by age 12 that people who got carsick riding to Grandma’s house probably weren’t cut out to be astronauts, so that killed THAT dream (sadness!). However, it didn’t kill my fascination with all things extraterrestrial, with the sole exceptions of crop circles and Scientologists.
So here I am Sharing Teh Awesome outer-space news. Enjoy!
The first-ever landing of a probe near Mars’ north pole happened smoothly on Sunday, NASA confirmed.