A year ago on the return trip from #SolarEclipse2024, I stopped at Arizona's Meteor Crater. It's officially Barringer Crater, after the man who first proposed it might be an impact crater, tried to understand its geology, but died before he could prove it. Later it became the first proven impact site after geologist Eugene Shoemaker noticed its geology was like Nevada's nuclear test blast craters, but vastly bigger. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112265956358306922 #astronomy #geology #space #spacegeek #travel

A year ago on the return trip from #SolarEclipse2024, I stopped by the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radiotelescope, near Socorro NM. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112261585762946997 #astronomy #space #spacegeek #travel

A year ago on the return trip from #SolarEclipse2024, I posted a picture (which I took the previous day) of the Sierra Madera impact crater near Fort Stockton, Texas. The crater is 8mi/13km wide and US Hwy 385 goes through the middle of it. But the highway is the only spot you can see it since the rest of the crater is private property. So it was easy to keep the stop quick, take a few pictures and continue the drive. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112258742599256023 #astronomy #geology #space #spacegeek #travel

A year ago I was on the drive back home on the #SolarEclipse2024 road trip. From the far point of the trip in Houston, I made some more #space related stops on the way home: Sierra Madera impact crater near Fort Stockton TX, NSF's Very Large Array radiotelescope near Socorro NM and Meteor Crater near Flagstaff AZ. Overnight stops were at Austin TX, Las Cruces NM, Flagstaff AZ and Brigham City UT. #astronomy #space #spacegeek #travel

More of my pictures from a year ago today at Johnson Space Center in Houston, 2 days after seeing #SolarEclipse2024. #astronomy #NASA #space #spacegeek #travel

One year ago, April 10, 2024... 2 days after #SolarEclipse2024, I visited NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. That part of my itinerary was intended to be an easy success in case the weather turned the eclipse viewing into a failure. Fortunately, that succeeded too. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112252673054720555 #astronomy #NASA #space #spacegeek #travel

One year ago, the day after the April 8, 2024 total #SolarEclipse2024, I continued south from Dallas to Houston to see NASA Johnson Space Center, with a quick peek before the visitor center closed for the day. I returned for more there the next day. That day was the road trip's farthest point with dinner at the coast in Galveston. After that everything was on the journey back home. #spacegeek #travel

One year ago... #weather is what you get. Forecasted storms were late, cleared just enough just in time to see #SolarEclipse2024 totality in Mesquite TX. Since cumulus clouds grow with daytime solar heating, the partial eclipse leading up to totality apparently cooled the air enough to inhibit them. Not everyone was as lucky that day. Spring is unpredictable - actual cloud cover along the path of totality differed from average expectations. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112237121736018901 #eclipse #astronomy #travel

One year ago, April 8, 2024, was the total #SolarEclipse2024 across North America. I watched from the Totality Dallas festival in Mesquite, Texas. Located at a regional park in the eastern Dallas metro, it had longer totality (4 minutes) than the big sold-out event in downtown. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112236220385840532 #astronomy #travel