Friday, February 15, 2019

When Opportunity Knocks

According to the NEWS ON TV, Opportunity ROVER is dead! Really? Are you sure? After 15 years of mapping and exploration on Planet Mars the Rover Mars Opportunity is dead!!

First, let me tell you that to send the Mars Rover Opportunity to space and landed on planet Mars was sort of a huge miracle. Scientists thought the Rover wont even work or land safely on another planet. They assumed that if ever Rover landed on Mars it will function just for hours or days but miraculously for the past 14.5 years the Rover Mars Opportunity has defied gravity and sent so many hundreds of photographs of the Mars planet. Incredible! Totally amazing!

It was next to impossible but the possibility has ended. Sad.

As I watched the last details of Rover Mars Opportunity as it was stuck on the Mars surface out from the open-mouth volcano shaped and then out to once again capture the Mars land and suddenly got stuck on a pile of white substance they called silica... how they knew the white surface is silica? LOL. That's very strange! That could be SNOW. And if it snow then Mars is suitable for life expectancy.

How could you know? Unless if you send an astronaut to explore and conquer Mars, the red planet. Or another Rover to extend its mission. Rover Spirit is there too anyway. All these missions are crucial and worth billions of dollars. Probably trillions of dollars now. 

For the meantime, as if planet Earth is not a planet and right now our province is blanketed with white snow. The first day of snow last Monday, had an accumulation of  20 cm. then the next day of snowfall had 25 cm. thick of snow. The third day was sunny and sunshine melted at least 10 cm of snow on the ground. This morning after the snowfall yesterday, the snow is now 35 cm thick unless of course if you clear the snow and shove the snow away from the sidewalk. The streets and highways are plowed and sprinkled with industrial salts. Well, I hope so. Slow down when its time to slow down. Drive safely. Keep yourself warm and stay at home when you have nothing important to do away from home.

Happy Friday! TGIF.