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Daily Bread for 12.21.24: Sure, It’s Winter Here, But It’s Springtime Only 103 Million Kilometers Away

Good morning.

Winter begins this Saturday in Whitewater with partly sunny skies and a high of 19. Sunrise is 7:22 and sunset is 4:24, for 9 hours, 1 minute of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 62.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1937,  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world’s first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.


Fall and Winter are may favorite seasons (in that order), but for those preferring warmer weather, there’s a place offering consolation. It’s winter here on Earth, but on springtime on Mars:

Mars scientists have recently marked a new year on the Red Planet, a milestone that occurs every 687 days. Because the Martian new year coincides with spring in the planet’s northern hemisphere, it’s a time of lots of activity — avalanches, exploding jets of gas, and more. JPL research scientist Serina Diniega explains some of the changes to the Martian surface that scientists can track with spacecraft like NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

(The distance between Earth and Mars varies, but today — 12.21 — it’s a short 103 million kilometers away.)


Creating a Christmas Song from Scratch in Five Days:

Christmas number 1 song? Top of the Xmas UK music chart? East 17. Mariah Carey. Wham!… Bobby and the Baubles? With the help of East 17’s John Hendy, music mogul Fred Casimir, and a bunch of Fiverr musicians, Great Big Story’s Bob Fletcher attempts to make this dream a reality.
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