Conceptual illustration of the TESS satellite. Credit: NASA
Happy Friday the 13th! Here are a few fun things I stumbled across over the last week.
NASA’s TESS satellite is set to launch on Monday, April 16, at 6:32 EDT. The satellite’s mission is to search for planets outside our solar system. It will “cover an area of sky 400 times larger than that monitored by Kepler.” For launch coverage information, click here. For more about the mission, head over to the TESS Exoplanet Mission website.
For a dose of cute that will last far beyond the minute it will take to watch the video, check out the March of the Penguins at the Oregon Zoo’s website.
I launched my Amazon author page this week. I’m still playing around with it, but it’s slightly thrilling to be so “official.”
Click on image to link to this title at IndieBound. Image credit: IndieBound
Weekend Reads
This weekend I’m hoping to continue to work my way through Brandon Mull’s Beyonders: Seeds of Rebellion. I’ll also be taking in Underneath it All: A History of Women’s Underwear, a book by friend and fellow SCBWI-OR member Amber J. Keyser.