10 Things: Journey to the centre of Mars

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Manic Monday Number 16 – Trying to keep up

Hi there bloggies, happy Monday to you all! It's been a bit of a struggle keeping up with you all and all you comments so I'm sorry for the lateness of replies and responding to you all. I managed to get a few posts out last week, thanks mainly to forward planning and scheduling. Thank …

The Great Galactic Service Station – Part 14

Annoying and irritating customers are a universal constant. This happens a lot when life forms become hungry and irritated. What do do about this has caused problems for food establishment owners and managers for all of time. Back on Earth in the time of primates a meaty joint would often result in the death of …

Rosetta – Stars and snow

This short gif video of snow and stars, put together from images from the Rosetta mission is something out of this world!   http://explorationimages.tumblr.com/post/173315182214/rosetta-gif-of-comet-67pchuryumov-gerasimenko-in Credit: Exploration Images on Tumblr Planet Simon Also find Planet Simon on Twitter Come and visit find me on my Planet Simon Facebook Page Find some of my pictures on Instagram …

Solar System Exploration – Earth

Our exploration of the Solar system moves away from the fiery inner solar system to find a blue planet in the more temperate climes of space - we find our own planet Earth. Earth was not named after Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses like other planets and moons in the solar system. Instead the …

The Geeky Guide to WordPress – Your Blogging Strategy

As I've been doing this blogging thing a little while now and it seemed a good idea to pass on a few of the things that I've learned over the five years that I've been doing this. In easy and often geeky steps you'll be taken through the steps and point out the pitfalls of …

NASA – Earth your home our mission

I know yesterday was Earth day but everyday should be Earth day. https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/173127344509/earth-your-home-our-mission Credit: NASA   Planet Simon   Also find Planet Simon on Twitter Come and visit find me on my Planet Simon Facebook Page Find some of my pictures on Instagram Also look me up on: Pinterest      Stumbledupon     Wattpad

Manic Monday Number 15 – Wow that was hot!

Monday is back again... Happy Monday bloggies. Over here in the UK we we're enjoying some hot weather for a change, it was more like June than April, it was very welcome. What's been happening on Planet Simon this week?   There was no Great Galactic Service Station last week (again (groan)), I hope to …

Earth Day 2018 The Shore of the Cosmic Ocean

Today is Earth day! Happy Earth Day 2018! Now more than ever we as the inhabitants of spaceship Earth need to think about how in our every day we need to look after ever aspect of this planet and everything that lives on it. Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean - Carl Sagan …

Event Horizon – 20 Years of waiting

Despite the fact I'm a massive sci-fi fan I rarely get to see the films actually when they come out. This was definitely the case with Even Horizon, which I've recently seen after its release over 20 years ago. First of all this film disagreed with me greatly becasue despite being a supposedly science fiction …

NASA – Earth from Afar

If anyone needs to see why we should live in peace, put down our weapons and work towards common goals that befit all mankind regardless of race, colour, gender or religion, then this perspective should really help: https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/173039484304/earth-from-afar Credit to NASA, taken from their Tumblr page Planet Simon Also find Planet Simon on Twitter Come …

Solar System Exploration – Venus

Moving in the right direction this time, away from the Sun our next major object in the solar system is Venus. Venus is one of the four rocky planets in the solar system, it is the second planet away from the Sun and is the closest planet in size to the Earth. Venus has orbits …