• On November 29 in 1996

Mars

Hubble took this image of Mars as part of a sequence tracking a storm near the planet's northern polar cap. The remnants of the storm are visible as salmon-colored streaks against the cap.

• VirtualAstro · oct 6

TONIGHT!

Red Planet Mars is at its closest to Earth. It won't get this close again for another 15 years in 2035.

You can see it in the east now and it will get higher and more southerly as the evening moves on. Look for an incredibly bright reddish orange star like object. https://t.co/a7IxWCJKf6

mars is my favorite english word, 별 (star) is my favorite one in korean. clouds are my favorite things on earth. i'm really close to my internet friends, all of them live in another state, pretty far from mine. i've never been in love, so i direct my strongest emotions, including romantic ones, towards k-pop boys; idols who have busy schedules and their lives under the public eyes. i always end up having a crush on a guy who already has a crush on someone else. i've always wanted to travel around the world, but now that i'm financially conscious, my main goal is to live and work with filmmaking in south korea - i want to visit my sister in canada as well, because we promised.

almost every night before bed i go to my backyard to look up and stare at my beautiful reddish orange friend. it's been a while since i saw it. it's been a while since i saw venus, i'm nor waking up early neither sleeping too late, that's why. guess i've seen jupiter and saturno last week, not sure, i don't have the app anymore. but it's nice to see them together in the night sky.

i find balance in the planets, although they are chaotic in their own ways. i don't want to be a planet - i'm already lonely in a crowd -, i wonder how it's like to orbit around the sun in this huge wide galaxy; to have such unique chemicals, but still be so distant from everything. at the same time, just because they shine brighter to me, doesn't mean there are no other stars around them, right? it's about perspective. perhaps about privilege. i must be crazy, a planet would never be as lonely as a human being. as lonely as me. guess that's why they keep me grounded.

on the other hand, i would love to be a cloud. i would be able to have different shapes and still be beautiful, i would be able to travel the whole world as long as i didn't vanish. after all, a cloud is just as ephemeral as a human being, just a little less complicated. clouds bring me the peace i need to keep going, to stay strong and enjoy the view down here. they help me to focus on my own shapes and storms, to be amazed by the colors that i'm gladly able to see.

i might be this lonely because i'm attracted to everything that's unreachable, but without them, i wouldn't pay attention to my own progress. they are the ones that show me that not everything is unreachable, because i am totally capable of getting there.