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Close Mars Means Close-Up Pictures

Posted by timothy on from the from-below-and-above dept.

Guttata writes " space.com has posted 1 of 2 images taken by Hubble last night, dubbed the best Mars globe photo ever taken. The second image will be posted at 4 p.m. ET. Cool!" aderuwe points to a report on the Hubble site itself. Finally, dpp writes "Space.com is reporting how astronomers using the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) here at the Joint Astronomy Centre have made what are thought to be the sharpest ground-based images of Mars to date. They'll be studying the spectra of the infrared light to look for the signatures of minerals that would indicate the past presence of liquid water, which could have hosted life."

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  1. Re:Search for life in Europa instead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.

    Man, don't you pay attention?

  2. dammit by jwjcmw · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like this caption better.

  3. From the article: by RealityProphet · · Score: 4, Funny
    The south polar ice cap is currently melting and shrinking in size...

    Oh my God! This global warming epidemic is contagious!

  4. Huge staplers live on mars?! by kaltkalt · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was looking at the large, detailed mars pic on the linked site and low and behold, a huge, living stapler with some english words growing on its side appeared and started to stomp around on the planet. I, for one, welcome our new stapler overlords.

    Wait, what's that you say? It was just a tacky, utterly-annoying pop-up advertisement hopping around on my computer screen? Oh. Fuck them then.

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    Stupid people make stupid things profitable.