The bouquet in the great room contains Asian lilies and several of these pretty pink roses. Click on the image to enlarge.
Floating Dust May Be Cause of A Lunar “Ionosphere”
This is an interesting video about a thin layer of ionized dust above the lunar surface. Via NASA and SpaceWeather.com:
How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it. Lunar researchers have been struggling with this mystery for years, and they may have finally found a solution.
Late “Second Spring” Cactus Flowers
The Bishop’s Cap cactus has a couple of flowers left just in time for second spring to end. Click on the image to enlarge.
Moonrise Over Palo Verde
Late this afternoon, I was out back and saw the moon rising over the palo verde just east of the driveway. I thought it was a very pretty sight on a very cool day here in Wickenburg. Click on the image to enlarge.
Solar Plasma Flow
This video compresses about an hour of solar activity around a sunspot to a little over ten seconds.
Via APOD:
The Sun’s surface keeps changing. The above movie shows how the Sun’s surface oozes during a single hour. The Sun’s photosphere has thousands of bumps called granules and usually a few dark depressions called sunspots.