I Know I'm Limiting The Answers To A Gender Binary. I'm Curious About These Two Genders Specifically.

i know i'm limiting the answers to a gender binary. i'm curious about these two genders specifically.

I am a(n):

⚪ Male

⚪ Female

🔘 Writer

Looking for

⚪ Boyfriend

⚪ Girlfriend

🔘 An incredibly specific word that I can't remember

The biggest lie in fanfiction is that everyone has a first aid kit in their house. I have never owned one in my life

Some of my cosmic cats from this and previous years!🌠

As has I guess become traditional at this point, it's time for another Curiosity Landiversary post where I show you some pictures and ramble a bit. At the time of posting (5:17 UTC on August 6), Curiosity has been exploring Gale Crater for 12 Earth years!

Last year when I made this post, it was the dead of winter in Gale. Now we're well into summer, and Curiosity is taking full advantage of the warmth (with such balmy high's as 0°C). This has included spending quite a bit of time at the site of the 41st drill hole, 'Mammoth Lakes,' where it found elemental sulphur! With with old geological technique of 'driving over a rock'.

It's been an exciting spring for space here on Earth between the North American solar eclipse and solar activity creating incredible aurorae, and Mars has been weathering these same solar storms. Curiosity's RAD instrument recorded its highest radiation levels since landing as a result. What's neat is you can also see evidence of this solar radiation in the imagery, as charged particles light up the detectors on Curiosity's cameras.

(There's also some dust lifting in this movie - we're well into the dusty season and Gale Crater has been delivering on the dust front.)

Back in the fall, Curiosity also passed 4000 sols (Martian days) on Mars. This happened right before heading into conjunction, a time of year where Mars is behind the sun and Curiosity gets a bit of a break from talking to its team back on earth. There are still minimal activities that can be preformed though, and one of those was taking this movie showing what a full sol from dawn til dusk looks like in Gale! I may be biased a bit on this one, but it's pretty neat to see.

The Rabbit is Safe

The skeleton laid in the earth, alone with its hallowed thoughts, for what seemed like an endless procession of years. Halfway through a yawn (out of habit, its lungs had long vanished), it heard the first sound to echo through the grave in… my oh my, how long now? A duet of pleasures – for how long has it been since it had a mystery?

A wild hare burst through the grave wall, making a startled noise and jumping around in quick, tight circles. After a handful of panicked minutes, the young rabbit settled in the skeleton’s rib cage and huddled in fear.

Carefully, the skeleton turned its skull to face the creature. Slowly, it reached up a talon to gently pet the bun. After a few moments, the rabbit calmed, and a bit later, it fell asleep.

The rabbit lay safe and the skeleton was supremely happy.

For the rest of its days, the rabbit would return to the skeleton nearly every night to sleep where once a heart beat.