Rosetta is still on duty at comet 67P/C-G. The image below is a mosaic of 2 images taken on March 28 from a distance of 19.9 km from the comet center, and has a resolution of 1.7 m/pixel. The area shown in the image is 3.1 km x 1.7 km. There's a link to a hi-res verson of the image HERE.
More images captured on the March 28 flyby are HERE.
BTW, April 1st was the 55th anniversary of the launch of TIROS-1, the world's first weather satellite. It was an experimental spacecraft with two cameras, one low-resolution and the other high-resolution. TIROS-1 was operational for 78 days and sent back thousands of images, providing the first ever large-scale views of cloud system structure.
TIROS-2 was launched the following November and operated for more than 1 year. From 1962 onward there was continuous satellite coverage of at least some portions of Earth's weather. By mid-1965 10 TIROS satellites had been launched, with several of them operating 2 to 4 years.
Today the New Horizons team switches gears. Pluto Approach Phase 1, which consisted of environmental monitoring, is ending, and Pluto Approach Phase 2, Pluto studies, begins!
It's in the mid 50's f here today. I went for a three mile walk. Salmonberry bushes and skunk cabbage are blooming.
Cystem, let us know if you win the lottery with your lucky numbers.
It's in the mid 50's f here today. I went for a three mile walk. Salmonberry bushes and skunk cabbage are blooming.
Spring is beginning here too. I won't make you look at photos of the mud everywhere and massive amounts of soggy dogshit blooming as the snow pack melts in the dog's pen.
Cystem, let us know if you win the lottery with your lucky numbers.
Is that what those are? I figured it was just a poorly disguised phone number for a massage parlor.
The protons are circling! The protons are circling!
As of an hour ago, there are protons running around the 27 km Large Hadron Collider for the first time in a couple years. They start them out slow, in a single beam. A second parallel beam will be threaded though the turns over the next few hours, but it will be another month before actual collisions begin, and likely several months before the collision energy ramps up to an expected incredible 13 trillion electron volts, which is about twice the energy of the runs that produced/detected the Higgs boson in 2012.
The doomsday squawkers, who have been ramping up their own volume over the past few weeks, will no doubt go into high gear now with their concerns that experimenting with such high-energy beams runs the risk of destroying the planet or even the universe. Maybe they should be happy-- there's always the chance that our own universe was created only because some other buffoons in a now-vanished universe experimented themselves right out of existence. 
As of earlier today, New Horizons is now less than 100 days from closest approach to Pluto!
There's currently a looooooong frontal band of snow sliding eastward a little south of me.
Gonna be 80 today, don't like it.
If it can happen for the Brontosaurus maybe there's still hope for Pluto.
At least 10 ships are jammed up by ice in eastern Lake Superior, some having been immobilized since Sunday. One has suffered a hole below the waterline from the ice, and another 5 ships are below the locks waiting until Coast Guard cutters can get things cleared out before they cycle up through the locks into Lake Superior.
Today's hail outlook is a leaping porpoise.
EDIT: HA! I didn't realize that was a dynamic link and the image would keep updating with the latest hail outlook. I happened to glance back up the page and saw the image no longer resembled a porpoise. I've got the original hard image posted now.
Yesterday Universe Today published the first of thirteen articles in what promises to be a great series: 13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13. Part 1 discusses why the oxygen tank explosion occurred when it did (the first article in the series 5 years ago discussed why the timing of the explosion was perfect for allowing a successful rescue of the crew). The article had a fair amount of detail but should still be a quick read for those short on time.
I didn't see a planned schedule for the publication of the remaining 12 new articles, just the phrase "over the next few weeks".
Here are the links:
Oughta be good.
That is what happening here too. (no rains atm)