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Words to use instead of Happy :
contented
content
cheerful
cheery
merry
joyful
jovial
jolly
joking
jocular
gleeful
carefree
untroubled
delighted
beaming
grinning
glowing
satisfied
gratified
buoyant
radiant
sunny
blithe
joyous
beatific
blessed
Light-hearted
Good-humoured
Over the moon
As happy as a sandboy
On top of the world
Blissed out
In high spirits
Thrilled
Happy December!
2020 was a lot of the worst. But here, we’d like to keep focusing on the not-so-worst. So, let’s start with focusing on the greatest hits of this year’s blue hellscape.
And, if you want to delve deeper into what made us all happier in 2020, then you know where to go for that.
Working AF
Myself right now!
Social media features in 2020
I love NASA’s posts
Falling Into Jupiter
Twenty-five years ago, an object roughly the size of an oven made space history when it plunged into the clouds of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. On Dec. 7, 1995, the 750-pound Galileo probe became the first probe to enter the gas giant. Traveling at a blistering speed of 106,000 miles per hour, the probe’s protective heat shield experienced temperatures as hot as the Sun’s surface generated by friction during entry. As the probe parachuted through Jupiter’s dense atmosphere, its science instruments made measurements of the planet’s chemical and physical makeup. The probe collected data for nearly an hour before its signal was lost. Its data was transmitted to Earth via the Galileo spacecraft, an orbiter that carried the probe to Jupiter and stayed within contact during the encounter. Learn more about the mission.
The Galileo probe was launched to space aboard space shuttle Atlantis in 1989
The probe consisted of a descent module and a protective deceleration module
The probe traveled to Jupiter attached to the Galileo spacecraft
The probe was released from the spacecraft in July 1995
The probe entered Jupiter’s atmosphere five months later on Dec. 7, 1995
Parachutes were deployed to slow the probe’s descent
The probe collected science data for 58 minutes as it fell into the planet’s atmosphere
The Galileo probe was managed by NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
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