"Third Swing" -- Around Venus -- Completed By Parker Probe, As Luminous Dawn Arrived, This Morning...

In the gray half light of dawn, this morning local US time, ESA and NASA’s Parker Solar Orbiter completed its third Venus flyby. The spacecraft uses the planet’s gravity to swing closer to the Sun and tilt its orbit for the first-ever view of the Sun’s poles:



Onward. . . grinning -- ever grinning.

नमस्ते

'Tis a good excuse, also, to drink in poetry (drowning, perhaps momentarily at least, beneath some haunting waters) -- drawn under, I suppose, by Mr. Williams' sublime, and surprising, prose:

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring		sweating in the sun that melted the wings wax
a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry		Unsignificantly off the coast there was
of the year was awake tingling near		a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning
the edge of the sea concerned only with itself		-- William Carlos Williams (1883 to 1963)