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There was just enough time to sleep between the 100M Mens Final and the MSL landing

not long to go now...

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Oh my!

http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/PIA15691-660-580x270.jpg

And this one too. I love this.

http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/hirise-580x217.jpg

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Holy mother of all that is holy and pure.

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674919main_pia16021-946.jpg

That, is a hi-res picture of Curiosity's heat shield, a few seconds after separating from the rover.

This is truly awesome.

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I- just...fuuuuuuuuuck.

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Just amazing.
http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/PIA16029.jpg

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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redxavier wrote:

Just amazing.
http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/PIA16029.jpg

"Well, I'm not going that way. It's much too rocky. This way is much easier."

not long to go now...

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Saniss wrote:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674919main_pia16021-946.jpg

FAKE!!!
There are no lens flares.

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This weeks 'Create This Week' theme is space, go check out the thread on the Creations board and get creative!

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It's so beautiful.
http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Curiosity-Mount-Sharp-Sol-2a_Ken-Kremer.jpg

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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redxavier wrote:

It's so beautiful.
http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Curiosity-Mount-Sharp-Sol-2a_Ken-Kremer.jpg

Come to Australia - we got loads of this stuff out back. You can drive for days through this terrain and see no one.

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Lamer wrote:

After 8 months flight-time, and 7 minutes of terror, come 2 weeks of boring checks. Hopefully we'll get some proper driving in the 3rd or 4th week. I was surprised to learn its rolling speed is the same as the MER Spirit and Opportunity rovers. So we won't get much more than 100M a day out of them.
The good news is that its RTG powersource can last for at least 14 years.

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RIP Neil Armstrong! One of the all time greatest Americans, no, greatest humans who ever lived.

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Well fuck.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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I can't help but imagine that early astronauts—especially those who went to the surface of the moon—figured their chances of returning safely were very slim. Brave, brave men.

This is one of my all-time favorites from The Onion.

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

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I'm sorry to report, we have on less living astronaut. sad

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012 … ain=usnews

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Rest in peace Neil, you will, quite literally, be remembered forever.

*raises glass*

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Rest in peace Neil. I suppose after going to the moon, death is about the only great adventure left.

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Still kind of hard to believe he's gone. Such a great man.

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Self-portrait of Curiosity smile
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/files/2012/09/curiosity_selfportrait.jpg

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Aw, it's a MySpace photo.

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Holy Communion Batman...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree … union-moon

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yeah, that's mentioned in HBO's From The Earth to the Moon. The Apollo 8 crew got flack fro their reading from the bible while rounding the moon Christmas Eve, so Buzz was told not to do anything publicly.

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If Aaron Sorkin was writing the script for that scene, Neil and Buzz would have a fast-paced witty snarky argument about religion with a lot of sass from Neil at Buzz's superstition.

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Check out From 'Earth To The Moon' If you haven't.  smile

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