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First High-Res Color Photos from Mars

mzs writes "The first color thumbnail from Spirit was available yesterday from a larger image. Today some full-size color images are available. If you are in the USA you may be interested in catching the NOVA program on your local PBS station tonight." Acrobatman notes the existence of a nifty utility:"Mars24, a Mac OS X and Java application and applet which displays a Mars 'sunclock', a graphical representation of Mars. This free utility shows the current sun- and nightsides of Mars, along with a numerical readout of the time in 24-hour format and landmarks such as the landing positions of the rovers."

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  1. The pics- by IWantMoreSpamPlease · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    They're so biiiiig, and red!

    (sorry, first thing that came to mind.)

    On a slightly more serious note, I'm looking forward to sunset pics, and perhaps ones from a Martian duststorm, in addition to pics of the crash(?) site of Beagle2.

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  2. careful folks... by Guano_Jim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If ever there was an opportunity for a submitter to include a goatse link in an article, this is it!

    Careful what you click on!

  3. article description and /.ing by dkleinsc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Today some full-size color images are available.

    Available, that is, until /. gets to them.

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  4. Re:shutup you dumb ass american {Score; +! True) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You are forgetting the French Navy is crap, the only reason they have their (poorly functioning) boats is because of a government scandal in the 80s. And they don't use them, they go on strike instead.

  5. Re:Lake District has some pics not shown above by torgosan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do NOT click - redirects to goatse.cx

    Looks like some tweaking to Slashcode is in order to filter this crap out.

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