Water Found on Mars – First Picture
Truly a watershed event – story here.
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Ice 1, Scribe 0
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No Vet Left Behind
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Russian Navy Out of Sevastopol by 2017?
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ISS and Atlantis – as seen from the ground…
… 190 miles away as it were. Amazing the things amature astronomers can do these days. Latest example – take one Boston-area high school class, mix with the Clay Center Observatory‘s 25" telescope, a digital camera and adaptive optics and voila: More on adaptive optics here h/t: Chap and Danger Room