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Spirit Takes Snapshot of Earth
ControlFreal writes "On its 66th Sol on Mars, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has obtained its first full view of crater Bonneville. In doing so, Spirit achieved its primary travel destination, as set out in its initial itinerary. Furthermore, Spirit has now travelled more than 300 meters, thereby fulfilling its minimum mission success criteria. With this, and Opportunity halfway through its primary mission, and having discovered very strong indications of a wet Martian past, NASA has truly many an astonishing interplanetary succes story! See the overview at the Mars Rover site for more details." Another reader writes "Among the 'money-shots' from the Mars rovers would have to rank the 'pale blue dot' image released today--a view looking back towards Earth. The larger image also includes the horizon and Sun, which because the Earth is seen as an inner planet closer in towards the Sun from a martian perspective, is difficult to photograph without saturation by solar glare."
But what is the turtle standing on?
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
Yes, that is rather amusing.
And sad, because most of the time, the site doesn't magically resurrect itself five minutes after giving massive MySQL timeouts, and the people who browse at anything above 0 never see the truly informative article text.
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In Korea, long hair is for old people!
Modded as OVERRATED?? The mind boggles...
Yeah, and a huge group of Awesome Aliens partying it up on a houseboat with ton's of Miller Light would have been cool too.