A summer picture for the winter solstice. Which I'd forgotten until Amy reminded me.
Refs
* Book of the New Sun. I still think Gene Wolfe does a better job of capturing the wonder of the Apollo programme with that brief paragraph that anyone else ever has.
* Dispatch from AGU: How to Understand Water Vapor Feedback - for WJI.
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