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Another Monday afternoon dropping by the RunDSM student workshops. This week included some photography as students tested their eyes with some disposable Kodak cameras.
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AS09-19-2919 (3 March 1969) --- The Lunar Module (LM) "Spider", still attached to the Saturn V third (S-IVB) stage, is photographed from the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Gumdrop" on the first day of the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission. This picture was taken following CSM/LM-S-IVB separation and prior to LM extraction from the S-IVB. The Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA) panels have already been jettisoned. Inside the Command Module were astronauts James A. McDivitt, commander; David R. Scott, command module pilot; and Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot.
Kolob Canyons in Zion National Park, a short and beautiful drive off of I-15 in southwest Utah. The cliffs here are about 1500 feet high, and primarily feature Navajo Sandstone, the fossilized remains of a vast erg, or desert, that covered what became the western U.S. for a few million years flanking 175 million years back, in Jurassic time. The dunes, preserved as cross-bedding within Navajo rock, were as pale as any today when they were still just sand. They acquired their orange and red hues from iron that found its way into their lithified forms. Find this (among other interesting facts) explained here.
This same desert, and rock, gives us Capitol Reef, Mesa Verde and Arches National Parks, the Red Rock walls and canyons around Las Vegas, the San Rafael Swell, the Escalante Grand Staircase, and countless other scenic wonders and climaxes in the West.
Here are the Kolob Canyons viewed from above, which I shot on a February 2016 flight from Los Angeles to Newark.