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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: goffscalif{at}aol.com [mailto:goffscalif{at}aol.com]
>
> I'm writing offline, with an exchange in mind regarding the
> esthetic benefit
> of space exploration.  I've got my Webshots set up today to show
> me views of
> Mars, selected from my three categories regarding the planet -
> images of the
> globe, images from orbit, and images of the surface - as well as
> a few other
> images that I picked up between last night and now (including the
> shot of Terra
> and Luna I mentioned).  It occurs to me that there are many
> things we'd never
> know about, much less know the beauty of, if it weren't for space
> exploration:
>
>    A volcano three times as tall as Everest and as large as Colorado
>    A canyon so large it could span the United States and swallow
> the Grand
> Canyon many times over
>    Intricate cloud patterns in the atmosphere of Jupiter
>    The shadow of the planet falling across Saturn's rings
>    The amazing braids and divisions within those rings
>    Seeing the earth as a "pale blue dot" from the edge of
the solar system
>    Sunrise from the Martian surface
>    The "magnificent desolation" of Luna's golden hills
>
> My only regrets regarding space exploration are first that we've done so
> little of what we could have done, and seem unwilling to do
> anything more, and
> second that I can't go myself and see these things.  From the
> time when I first
> encountered Chesley Bonestell's wonderful paintings of the solar
> system nearly
> 40 years ago I have wanted to see with my own eyes the moons of
> Jupiter, the
> "seas" of Mars, the Farside of Luna, and all the glories of
> space.  If I could
> actually visit the Horsehead Nebula, I'd be happy.
>
> And I can't fathom why anyone wouldn't want to go see what's there.
>
> Robert McKay
> goffscalif{at}aol.com
> I've had the same girlfriend for 24 years
>
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