Blood Moon: When I learned NASA Explorer School repainted mural I was part of

Anybody catch the blood moon before dawn this morning?

Brought some binoculars to see some of the moon's features, but the view was dark and the reddish cast too subtle. For me, the shadow was far more visible to the naked eye.

Now that I think of it, I didn't see the face of the moon. The moon doesn't rotate on an axis like the Earth, does it?

On a related note, I went to a magnet school that remains a NASA Explorer School. Today I honored the school by visiting its Web page for the 2nd, maybe 3rd, time in my life.

I see the mural of the 4 little astronauts -- one of the middle two... [for which I] was a model... -- was redrawn and painted over with 4 new little astronauts.

[The original mural was up for] 30 years, so I'm not mad.

Decades from now, at my memorial service, please start my obituary with a little humor:
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"Jubalyn was an astronaut! For 30 years!"

A Facebook post that originally appeared on the date above.

Blood moon near arch (Credit: "In-camera double exposure: Super Blue Blood Moon at Roosevelt Arch" by YellowstoneNPS | Public Domain Mark 1.0)

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Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can find her writings and commentaries, including "Blood Moon: When I learned NASA Explorer School repainted astronaut mural I was part of," at landturn.com/blog.

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