Today marks one year since I launched Mimi Uploader. I use it all the time, and I hope y’all using it continue to find it useful.
Last week NASA landed the Perseverance rover on Mars. I watched live the entry, descent, and landing phase as events happened. It was quite exciting.
Today they released a set of high definition videos from various cameras that captured the descent and landing in amazing detail. This is a first and wow, that footage is incredible!
NASA also released the first ever audio recorded on another planet. Today I heard the breeze on Mars. Amazing!
Perseverance carries with it the Ingenuity helicopter. So we will have the first powered flight on Mars to look forward to in the near future. And I’ll be sure to tune in for that.
All the media will be available in the public domain via the Perseverance site.
A winter storm
About a week ago we were at the beginning of a “historic” winter storm. It had waves of various kinds of precipitation. Snow, sleet, ice, freezing rain, rain.
At the end of it there was the thickest layers of ice on everything that I’d ever seen in these parts.
We lost power on Sunday night at 7pm. Thankfully, it was restored on Monday at 1:30pm. At one point we emptied the fridge of perishables and placed them in a cooler outside. At least there was plenty of ice around to keep things cold 😄. I’m grateful that this was a minor inconvenience to us compared to what many others are going through with recent weather.
All in all over 500,000 people were without power around here due to various causes, like downed power lines, equipment failures, substation failures. Crews have been working 24/7 to restore utilities.
It all began to thaw that Monday afternoon as the temperatures rose and the Sun came out for a while.
Now several days later, there’s still plenty of downed tree branches, and snow on the ground thawing slowly. Temperatures have remained above freezing but sunshine is still rare.
Images uploaded using Mimi.
