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News from Mars

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-just-keeps-coming dept.

An anonymous reader writes "While the Beagle 2 may have been gobbled up by Mars--Eater of Spacecraft, the main part of the ESA's recent Mars mission is doing well. The Mars Express Orbiter has sent back some amazing pictures of The Grand Canyon of Mars (Valles Marineris). Yes, this is the same gigantic geological feature that was missed by Mariner 4, 6, and 7 but finally found by Mariner 9. In other news, the Spirit rover is getting ready to grind the rock Adirondack (picture)."

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  1. the picture by ajs318 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Note that wallpaper ain't just for Windows! KDE users can download it, open a root console, and copy it to /usr/share/wallpapers/, from where any user can then set it as their desktop wallpaper. {This may or may not also work for GNOME -- haven't been able to test as I don't have Gnome installed on this machine}.

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  2. "than I could have" by glrotate · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    not "could of". idiot.