Michael McNeil: Fixed. My problem is that I have always lived in the northern hemisphere, and automatically write as if everything is from that perspective. The perspective in a southern hemisphere is of course reversed.

Blackwing1: Thank you for your kind words.

Much of today’s journalism is what I call “press release journalism”, whereby reporters do nothing more than regurgitate press releases with little other research. I myself admit that I do this a lot as well, though I never simply rewrite the releases, but link directly to them, and always question their substance.

Sadly, this new type of journalism means that few actually do any original research. It actually saddens me that I appear to be the only space journalist actually digging through the raw image archives of planetary missions and then publishing images not touted by press releases. I wish others would do so, because I’d learn more that way, and journalism would be improved.

As for my blacklist columns, I wish they weren’t necessary, but then, I also wish so many Americans were not authoritarian thugs, eager to smash their boots into the faces of those they disagree with. The columns are necessary to make this fact clear to the naive and ignorant among us.

Just a quick “thank you” for presenting images such as these. I don’t have the inclination to search them out for myself, so I greatly appreciate you bringing them forward on your blog. The image of the sun in far-ultraviolet posted just a little while ago, showing the violence and incredible activity invisible to the eye is just one such example.

I also greatly appreciate your “blacklisted” postings; letting a wider world know how hideously repressive and censorial the collectivist, statist, authoritarians in the left-wing really are.