Meanwhile, Back Home...

[krpalmer]

While continuing to look for new pictures of Pluto to be radioed back to Earth, I also happened to see that the solar monitoring satellite I recorded the launch of a few months ago has sent its first full-disc picture of Earth back. The blue of the Bahamas banks caught my attention first; I then went looking for my own neighbourhood to see there were clouds over the northwestern Great Lakes but things were clearer over the southeastern ones. It was an attractive picture in total, one that has me thinking about other hemispheres hopefully to come. I can suppose, though, that remembering the "environmental outreach" aspect of it I did pick up on how there were no clouds over California's Central Valley, and also remembered the articles I've been reading about the drought there.