Today is Monday - the Moon's Day.
What does the word mon look like to you? If you said moon, you’re right.
While the Latin word for moon is luna (and Monday is dies lunae), the name Monday comes from “Moon’s day” after the Norse moon god Máni. (https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/weekdays-weekend-evolution).
On April 1, Artemis II took humans the furthest they have ever been from Earth and past the far side of the moon. Humans had not been near the moon since 1972, when NASA's Apollo program ended. The journey spanned ten days and 694,481 miles from its launch at the Kennedy Space Center to its landing in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.
As big as Earth is, all of humanity looks at the same moon. It's like a collective third eye. It shows us our common identity without borders. It gives us a sense of oneness, a constant reminder that we are all tied together in an intricate web, whether we believe it or not.
Such a tiny speck in the vastness of the Universe, we should be able to all get along.
ReplyDeleteI love looking at the moon. The last photo is especially beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI loved the quote from the woman astronaut in the mission's crew about viewing the tiny blue dot of earth from the vastness of space that "all of us on earth are a crew".
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