This is Phobos, one of Mars' moons.
Last year the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the First Moon Landing with the issue of several stamps.
Early this year, I received some of them, on a letter sent by Phillip (the USA), on a thematic recycled envelope. (See on his blog.)
The stamp on the middle shows the Sea of Tranquility, the site where the lunar module, Eagle, landed.
And a French stamp features also one of the most ionic pictures of the event: the first steps on the Moon.
How many famous astronomers do you know?
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| Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797) |
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| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) |
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| Vera Rubin (1928-2016) |
The stamps on thes envelopes are very appropriate, as they belongs to the Spacious Skies part of the O Beautiful stamps:
I'm glad to see all of these traveled well. Good to see the potato again :)
ReplyDeleteIt took me a while to post the potato!:)
DeleteThanks again.
One of the few times I posted the before picture before you posted the after picture.
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DeleteThe Google doodle today celebrates Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I hadn't seen it.
DeleteThis looks like a fascinating series - both the skies and the astronomers.
ReplyDeleteThey are! :D
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