Month: January 2007

Three weeks in a row we’ve been hit with a snowstorm. Winter is definitely making it’s presence known this year. I’ve decided to fight back though, I bought myself some snowshoes. Tomorrow Ronda and I will get out and go hiking anyway. I’ll let you know how it goes.

I snapped this shot of the snow blowing off Pikes Peak last Saturday.

Thursday morning we were treated to an awesome light show in the western sky as the remnants of a Russian Soyuz 2-1b rocket re-entered the atmosphere and broke up high above the mountains. It was an amazing sight to see. Likely a once in a lifetime event. There was also a full moon setting and the debris passed just below it.

The rocket, made in Russia, was launched from Kazakhstan on December 27, carrying the European Space Agency’s COROT space observatory into orbit. Flying high above the Earth’s atmosphere, the Convection Rotation and planetary Transits (COROT) satellite will look for smaller, rocky extrasolar planets beyond our solar system.

Watch the cool video of the rocket re-entry here.