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Curiosity rover finds soil similar to Hawaii’s on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found soil on Mars to be similar to Hawaii’s after sifting and scanning its first sample on the Red Planet.
The robot’s CheMin instrument shook out fine particles of soil and fired X-rays at them to determine their composition.
Photo credit: NASA
So then according to Republican “logic”:
Since Obama is Muslim and from Hawaii and has touched the sand in Hawaii and since sand is basically the same everywhere Mars is a Muslim planet so don’t vote for Mars.
M-A-R-S. Mars Bitches. RED ROCKS!
Unimpressed Astronaut
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A statement prepared for President Nixon to read in the event that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became stranded on the moon.
Whoa.
Wow.
Meet Sarcastic Mars Rover, now on Twitter, doing a science all over your everything.
Meet your new twitter friend.
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The last two and a half minutes of Curiosity’s descent; 297 frames were taken. Here they are at four frames per second.
A 7 year-old asks Neil deGrasse Tyson what would happen if two black holes collide.
It’s wonderful. You da man, Clayton.
Oh, and the answer will make your head spin in the all the best ways.
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Science Picture of the Day: The Mars Horizon
NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity captured this image looking eastward over the Endeavour Crater late in the afternoon of Opportunity’s 2,888th Martian sol (day) which corresponded with March 9, 2012 here on Earth. In the foreground, Opportunity’s own shadow appears, in a sort of one-step-removed self-portrait. […] The image is a mosaic of about a dozen images and presented in false color to draw out certain features of the topography.
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Science Picture of the Day: The Mars Horizon
NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity captured this image looking eastward over the Endeavour Crater late in the afternoon of Opportunity’s 2,888th Martian sol (day) which corresponded with March 9, 2012 here on Earth. In the foreground, Opportunity’s own shadow appears, in a sort of one-step-removed self-portrait. […] The image is a mosaic of about a dozen images and presented in false color to draw out certain features of the topography.
[Image: NASA]
A fun new way to learn your ABC’s
The International Space Station is seen as a small object in the upper left of this photo of the Moon, in the skies over the Houston area. (Photo: Lauren Harnett / NASA via the Telegraph)
Kinda looks like a TIE Fighter.
In the US, we rely on the National Hurricane Center to forecast storms. The NHC is in turn a division of the National Weather Service, itself a part of the NOAA. Which, in the GOP’s 2011 budget bill, had its funding slashed by $1.2 billion from what was proposed in the president’s own budget bill, a bill that very notably included a $700 million increase over the previous year to cover needed upgrades to the satellites that gather the data that gets crunched in order to predict storms and weather in general.
Apparently weather forecasting is better left to the private sector.
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I would choose a man that walked on the moon, over a man that walked on water.
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