RDP Tuesday: ASTROLOGY
In Astrology, the planets in our Solar System all play roles. Starring roles in fact.
I’d rather understand these wonderful worlds on their own terms.
Without us slapping labels on them, they are shrouded with mystery and in the case of Venus, her atmosphere could smoosh you like a bug and Jupiter would give you a lethal dose of radiation in hours ( which seems WILDLY optimistic timeline to me ) .Once I heard the colorful phrase ‘rapid cell degeneration ‘ to explain what would happen to you if you stood on the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. I have actually spent nights staring up at my ceiling trying to picture what that would look like.
My point is, each of these worlds could turn you into a chalk outline in some pretty creative ways. They don’t need to carry traits- noble or otherwise- for us.
Here are some wonderful images for you to enjoy and maybe ponder over:
Mars: Sunrise
View of Jupiter captured by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft from the south. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstäd/Seán Doran
Natural-colour view of Saturn, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on January 2010.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.)
Original caption: “NASA
The dark region at the center of this image, pieced together from photographs taken by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft, includes the north pole of Mercury. Because Mercury’s spin axis is almost exactly vertical, sunlight never reaches the bottoms of craters near the poles, and water ice can persist in the ultra cold temperatures there.
NASA/Voyager 2 Team – Neptune
Uranus as seen by NASA’s Voyager 2
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute PLUTO
Data visualization of the Sun from the Moon as seen from Hadley Rille, the Apollo 16 landing site. The topography and shadows are scientifically accurate. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio/Ernie Wright