Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring paintingGustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman paintingGustav Klimt The Kiss (Le Baiser _ Il Baccio) painting
room and closed the door behind her -- for what reason, she didn't recall or couldn't articulate, any more than she could explain why she'd not turned the lights on, or why she'd left the doorway and approached the main console, which whirred quietly as always, day and night, and winked on every side its warm gold lights, as if in greeting.
"I thought I'd just sit in the control-chair a minute," she said; "it was awfully peaceful in there; you've noidea. I could've dozed right off -- maybe I did, for a second or two. But then. . . oh dear, it's not easy to describe how it was!"
The task indeed was difficult, and though her voice rose with a quiet joy as she spoke, so that every word came clearly through the door (despite an increased noise, like cheering, from the crowd outside), I cannot say I followed precisely her account. She had felt a kind of warmth, it seemed -- penetrating, almost electrical -- that tingled through every limb and joint and relaxed her utterly, as though all the muscles in her body had melted. This sensation had come on quickly, I gathered, but so subtly that she'd not at first realized it was external, and credited it to her fatigue and the extraordinary comfort of the molded

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting
Claude Monet Girls In A Boat painting
The idea for the Deep Space Network was established in 1959 to avoid the need for separate communication networks for each space mission. The network, made of three clusters of giant antennas is now the largest and most sensitive telecommunications system in the world. Each complex is in a remote location surrounded by mountains to cut down on signal interference. A 230-foot antenna is the centerpiece of each. One is outside Madrid, Spain, another in California's Mojave Desert and the third near Canberra, Australia.The antennas are part of a two-way communication system that tracks spacecraft and also sends navigational commands to the probes, such as the Pioneer 10, Galileo and NEAR, the probe that successfully landed on an asteroid earlier this year.