Preston Scott

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Watch & Listen! Perseverance Mars Rover Landing, Wind On Red Planet

The memories are distant and growing more so each year, but I still have them.

I remember Florida in the 1960s. When I was a child our family had a home on New Smyrna Beach, south of the Space Coast. We would only be there a few weeks a year when the Minnesota Twins held its spring training nearby. Dad, Ray Scott, was the Twins play-by-play announcer.

I remember the beach, the memory of being towed out past the waves on a canvas/rubber raft by my older brother (I was NOT able to swim...lol) in what I would learn decades later was one of the highest concentration of sharks anywhere off the U.S. coast. He left me out there and swam back...laughing. Mom did not laugh. I was confused why the house on the beach was moving farther away. I am laughing...now.

I remember A&W Root Beer stands featuring the Papa Burger, Momma Burger, Teen Burger, and my burger...the Baby Burger. Usually, those roadies to the A&W stand were on the way back from watching a launch at Cape Canaveral. We always brought a jug of A&W Root Beer home and to this day it is my favorite brand of root beer. It's a memory which tastes sweet.

My generation was the first generation to watch man leave the atmosphere and enter space. I have always been enamored with flight. I have chronicled the love for years. It explains why I find what is below so riviting and worth sharing.

The fact we (the USA) landed another rover on Mars is not the story...it's how we (yes, we...our tax dollars) did it. In the second clip below that you will need to really turn up your speakers. For the first time ever we hear wind on a planet other than earth. Yes, there is an earlier recording, but it is largely digital guessing. This is THE sound.

I am left in awe and I am reminded how God put earth right where it is for a reason...actually trillions of reasons.

For however many years God grants me, I will remain humbled at His creation on this planet. How anyone can call our planet and being a cosmic accident is beyond me.


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